We had our home visit on Saturday and received our approval today from As Good as Gold! We're on the waiting list and can't wait to bring home a new golden to our family.
Congratulations to you. That is very exciting. I know because we went through that a few months ago and brought our Lily home 3 days before Christmas this year. I know you will find an incredible companion.
I know I'm jumping way ahead of myself here since we don't have a rescue yet, but any words of advice for integrating him with Duke - my 21 month old golden.
Goldens love other Goldens, they just seem to know that they're the same. You won't need to do any special meeting rituals, they'll do just fine together
You will probably bring Duke to the meeting at the foster family, at least that's how it was for us. A car ride home and before we went into the house we took them on a long walk together.
I am so EXCITED for you!! As Good As Gold is a wonderful organization.
They are located in Woodridge, IL, that's where I live, and we have an
As Good As Gold Female Adopted Golden Retriever living kitty corner from us.
Her name is Rosie.
I think that maybe they will bring him over to meet your boy, but if not I would introduce them on neutral territory before coming into the house. Everything will be fine. When we lost our Smooch in Dec. 2010, we were going to adopt from them, and then I remembered Tucker on the forum here needed a home, so we adopted him!!
Congratulations! I'm so glad your home visit went well and I'm very happy for you!
I think introducing the two dogs in a neutral location is an excellent idea. I've done this twice when I introduced my rescue dogs to my current dogs and it worked out very well both times.
I am involved with rescue for a different breed and we send adopters home with lots of advice. Since you already have another dog I would not allow them alone together without supervision for at least a month. Good luck to you.
The waiting part is rather anti-climatic! I was interested in 2 different boys , but it appears both are in process of getting adopted. What is a reasonable expectation for a wait time?
I might depend on the number of dogs available for Adoption with the Rescue and the number of Approved Applicants that are waiting for a dog.
There could be several approved applicants ahead of you.
Did you specify a particular age or male/female?
Are you getting any updates from the group?
I would try to keep in touch with them as much as possible.
The Group I adopted my girl from and I use to help, would contact approved applicants as a dog became available. Whoever was on top of the list, would be contacted first. If they were not interested, then the next person was contacted.
Also, the best possible match for the dog and the family was also taken into consideration when contacting approved applicants.
I have no idea what is reasonable for a wait time. I think we had to wait a week or two for the lady to come out and do a home visit and then we went to her house to meet her fosters, but this was YEARS AGO, and it wasn't As Good As Gold. We met Smooch the day we went to her house and she was the only female that Golden Opportunities had, and we adopted her. At the time I was going to Florida with my sister, so Beth wanted to wait until I returned and then Ken and I picked her up.
I saw a cute golden/german shepherd mix puppy with another rescue so I put an application in for him. Is it wrong to have applications in at 2 rescues?
Yes it is. They have an 18 month old male rescued from Puerto Rico. He's got some training that needs to be done (he was a street dog)...need to see if my husband can be ok with that...gets into trash, counter surfs, etc
We just got Lily right before Christmas and she was not what we asked for in our application, but what an incredible little girl she has turned out to be. Sometimes adoption is the greatest gift to you.
Yes, I can see your hubby will have to be on board.
I think I saw this boy on Facebook! WOW!! Can't wait to hear!!
As far as counter surging, both GOldens we've had have been counter surfers.
Smooch was a stray in the worst area of Chicago. Tucker just likes to take potatos, soap, anything he can put in his mouth off the counter. We also close the bathroom doors when we go out!!
We just leave no food on the counter and push everything to back of the counter.
I put the bananas under the sink when we go out.
We put our garbage can UNDER THE SINK behind closed doors. We keep a recycle can with a swinging lid out for recycle only.
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