Butter Cup

Age: 12 Weeks

Available October 10th

Updated 10/5/11

Buttercup and her sister Sweetpea are fostering together—and foster mom is working hard! Of course, the pups think THEY are working hard, too. All that playing, investigating new things, bouncing around, eating, napping, playing some more, trying to figure out housetraining…. it’s a full day, every day.

Foster mom has these notes:

Buttercup just adores humans and is a typical, snuggly puppy.She’s great with kids—more laidback, not as “nippy” as Miss Sweetpea. She’s catching on to housebreaking a bit faster, has fewer mistakes in her crate and  is pretty reliable if taken outside on a regular schedule and praised. She is obviously smart! She’s good in her crate, too, and sleeps nicely in there.

Buttercup is bouncy and silly, as any puppy should be, but she takes correction from the older dogs very well. She loves toys and happily bounds after everything, but doesn’t bring anything back (guess it takes a while for the “retriever” part to catch up to the “golden” part!). We’ve just introduced the leash so we’ll see how that goes.

Anyone ready to raise a puppy will love Buttercup! She seems to have a really loving, sweet, docile personality.

Updated 9/25/11

A BOUQUET OF SPRING FLOWERS —— JUST IN TIME FOR FALL!!
Buttercups, sweetpeas, violets and jasmine…. in SEPTEMBER? That’s exactly right! Not as unusual as it sounds when you take into account that THESE pretty blossoms are  adorable Golden puppies. All four girls were brought to the same South Texas shelter as strays, but beyond that, we don’t have a clue where they came from… or even if they all came from the same place. (Maybe from a backyard breeder clearing out the excess “inventory”?) They’re all young, but two of them (sisters Buttercup and Sweet Pea) are tiny, just 7 or 8 weeks old. Fine-boned, dainty Violet is a bit older, maybe 10 to 12 weeks; and Jasmine is the oldest, at 4 or 5 months.

The poor girls needed a bath in the worst way, which they soon got—after which they smelled just as flowery-fresh as their names and looked too cute for words—as you can see!

Here’s a little more:

Buttercup and Sweetpea are just your typical crazy puppies, running all over the place, rough-and-tumble. They will play tug-o-war with whatever they can find and are an absolute riot to watch. They settle in nicely, though, when you pick them up to love on them.  They love to give kisses.  They are very, very blonde, and even their ears are light in color, so we suspect they will stay pretty blonde. Who could possibly resist those ravishingly pretty little faces with their black shoe-button noses, glowing dark eyes, and bright, lively expressions?