Happy Endings
Bailey
is doing great! He is an awesome dog and he is so loving and wonderful,
I cant believe that no one wanted him before us! We got very lucky and
Im so glad we adopted him! He totally fits in with our family and gets
along great with our other Golden, Abby. They are a lot
of company for each other and they play and rough house all the time!
Bailey is the lighter colored one and Abby is the redhead!
Dawby
(previously Bobby) After Bobby's first adoption failed, the volunteers
for EGRR decided that Bobby needed a job to do so they contacted a trainer
at the Prison Pet Partnership Program in Purdy, WA. In this program, inmates
at the women's prison train dogs to be service dogs. Bobby, renamed Dawby,
did well with his training and graduated in April, 2006. He now helps
his new Mom with mobility, retrieving objects and opening doors.
After 26 years and four Golden Retrievers, we survived
two years without one. We
discovered EGRR and voila, along came Sadie. At the end
of her first day with us, it seemed like she'd always been here. Sadie
is eight years old and a comfort junkie. We wonder what her days were
like before. She is now in a place with lots of comfort, lots of walks
and lots of love.
Molly
came to us early this summer. We already had three dogs. The EGRR representative
didn't even bat an eye, of course I was speaking to them on the phone,
they seemed
to understand that sometimes it take 4 dogs to make a home. And that is
what we have now, a home. Molly is a 10 year old plays all of the time
with Oscar. She lies on the floor and he crawls all over her, wrestling
and chewing on each other. She gets along with Maggie and Emmy and our
cat, Bobby. Every morning around 7 she woofs. This is her question if
it is okay for her to get on the bed. She is so big that we can't sleep
well but we get to cuddle and it is a great way to wake up. Molly is a
typical Golden, she gets along with everyone and follows us wherever I
go.
Jerry
"Guardian of the Sofa" was placed by EGRR several years ago
to be trained to work in law enforcement. After outliving his usefulness
as a Narcotics De tection Dog, he was returned to EGRR in early 2006.
Believing the bond of adoption, especially with a working dog, should
be for a lifetime, a sheriff's deputy, who had the previous year adopted
an EGRR dog and trained him in narcotics detection, and his wife welcomed
Jerry into their family. They both understood Jerry's toy drive and need
for human bonding and Jerry's new Mom gave him purpose with a new job.
He does agility every week and has even won qualifying ribbons in several
agility trials. Jerry did have to re-learn some behaviors however, the
first time he went in a tunnel, he would not come out because he was looking
for drugs!
