I LOVE golden retrievers…

Aug 5, 2008

and I think there is noth­ing pret­tier than watch­ing a golden do what it was bred to do… retrieve birds. I was lucky enough to get to train and put two field titles on my golden retriever Sonny. We adopted Sonny from Dal­las Fort Worth Metro Golden Retriever Res­cue when he was 10 weeks old. He came into res­cue and instantly stole me heart. I was want­ing to train a golden in the field but was wait­ing for just the right dog and time… well as soon as I saw Sonny I decided to take a chance. This was one of the best deci­sions ever as he has never let me down and is the best canine com­pan­ion I could have ever asked for.

Sonny slept with me every night in bed in the bend of my knees, he played lots of fun puppy games etc. which led to us build­ing a bond of trust and loy­alty. Every­thing we did led up to his hunt tests. I am happy to say this boy has never not brought me back a bird, not even dur­ing the very first stages of his train­ing. He has always trusted in every­thing I have asked and has always done it with fly­ing colors.

So how many of you would have ever thought I would be up at 5 a.m. dri­ving way out into the coun­try to train in muddy water, mos­quito rid­den and chig­ger infested places just to play with my heart dog? Yep… I loved watch­ing the sun­rise with my dog in the car, radio on and a hot cup of cof­fee. It was always so fun to see Sonny react as I turned on to the first dirt road. He would sit up, perk up his ears and have his nose just a twitch­ing… he knew we were about to have a really fun morning.