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About Our Dog Family 
We've had Golden Retrievers since 1996.
Bevo has joined our family!!!
 
Bevo was born March 18, 2011.  We picked him up from Anna Hackney of Sandspur Goldens in Navarre, FL, on May 13.  The next week we took him and our other three to Dauphin Island for three days.  (That was ALOT of work!!) 
 
Then he got to go with us to Arlington, TX, to an AKC Breeders Symposium, where he got to stay with our niece, Hilary, and her mini-schnauzer, Chloe, for the day.  He's a great traveler!   And oh, so handsome!!!!
 
We haven't had an actual PUPPY since Darby was a puppy in 2004, so we were way overdue.  We're anxious for all of you to meet him.

 
We brought Betsy home on April 20, 2009.   She was 10 months old.
 
Betsy and Griffren playing...constantly!
 
We had a very sad thing to happen Monday, February 9, 2009--
we lost Louie at 12 1/2 years of age.  
 
For the last six months or so, he had been aging rather quickly, we thought.  For a week before his death we knew something was wrong, and wondered if he had had a stroke.  His eating habits were different, and his energy level was very much decreased. He didn't seem to be in any discomfort, though.
 
Finally after a week of no marked improvement, Sam took him to the vet for observation. The first thing he noticed was that he seemed anemic, so he did blood work to confirm that. He was VERY anemic, so he had to determine WHY.  He did an ultrasound and saw that he had a tumor in his spleen that had caused his spleen to burst.  He said this was very bad news and that at his age, almost certainly the tumor was malignant and almost certainly had spread to other areas of his body.
 
Sam and I went down to the office to see Louie for the last time. We loved on him and cried, then continued to have our hands on him as the vet gave him his last treatment.  Oh, it hurt so bad to lose him, but we could not bring him home and have him linger on to death. 
 
LOVE ON YOUR DOGS WHILE YOU HAVE THEM.
Louie in Bluebonnets in San Antonio, TX, at about 5 years of age.
Louie in Mississippi at about 10 years old.
Louie in September 2008
Several years ago we decided to breed.  After several years of listening, reading, and asking lots of questions we got our first bitch with the intent to breed.  Darby had one litter...March 20, 2007.  You can see all about that on www.dandygoldens.com. 
 

Darby's litter at seven weeks of age.
Three Dog Nights 
Sleeping with us each night we usually have two GRs on the bed.  They sort of rotate on and off.  We have three dogs...two GRs and one mixed breed.  Duncan mostly looks like a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever.  He might be a Cocker Spaniel/Golden Retriever mix.  We'll never know for sure.  He is our rescue dog.  He is now seven years old.

We do alot of dogsitting...usually just Golden Retrievers.

Darby earning her Rally Novice title on May 24, 2008, in Gonzales, LA.

Our Dogs in the Ring
We've had four of our dogs in various dog rings.  We now have titled three dogs...Cheznie, who is at the Rainbow Bridge, Darby (below), and Betsy.  Cheznie earned her Rally Novice (RN) title.  She also had her CGC. 

Cheznie's father, Louie, 12 1/2 years old when he died, also had his CGC and TDI.  He got one leg of his Rally  Novice.

Darby, who is five years old now, earned her Rally Advanced title on December 11, 2009, and her Rally Excellent on June 20, 2010.