Tess

#13-072 Tess, age 11 weeks

Update 8/5

AVAILABLE

Tess LOVES to play in the wading pool and splashing in the water dish as well. Usually, she is the muddiest of the bunch as she also likes to have adventures in the yard AFTER getting soaked. Tess enjoys her toys, inside and out, and likes to hog the best ones. Sometimes her sisters would prefer she share more often--but with two other siblings running around--she's got to get what she can get.

Tess loves people of all sizes and enjoys a belly rub even more than her siblings (which is saying a lot!) She is very social and likes to hang out with her people. She is a big, beautiful girl with excellent social skills!

Tess will let you know she wants to go outside by barking, but the noise stops pretty quickly if she sees that we are headed out. She does like to bark at her sisters while playing, but she doesn't seem to just bark randomly. 

#13-072 Tess, age 11 weeks

Update 8/5

AVAILABLE

The results are IN! We’ve all been so curious.

We DNA-tested two very different-looking pups: Vivian, a tricolor brown-black-gold/cream fluffball (she looks like her brother Eddie); and Tess, a solid blonde pup with short fur (Erin looks a lot like her, but with a longer coat).

The lab reports that Viv is 1/2 German Shepherd, 1/4 Golden Retriever, and 1/4 Great Pyrenees (yes, this does point toward momma Julia being only half Golden, but you sure could have fooled us—and did! She looks like a purebred Golden for sure).

Tess’s results are quite different, and this suggests that the litter had at least a couple of different fathers. Tess is 1/4 Golden, 1/4 German Shepherd, 1/4 “mixed breed,”  1/8 Alaskan Malamute, and 1/8 beagle. Goodness!

Meanwhile, oblivious to all the fascination surrounding their heritage, the puppies are living the typical puppy life, namely rumbling with each other, making puddles, getting stuck under furniture and beneath bushes in the yard & requiring rescue (and sticky-bur combouts), eating like tiny pigs, and growing like weeds.

TESS

She may have a pinch of this, that, and the other breed in her makeup, but Tess is 100% pure puppy!  Happy, silly, bouncy, bite-y, climb-y, wiggly, playful with her sisters, sleeps soundly (though she does sometimes fuss a bit at night) and wakes up ready to party. When it comes to having her blonde locks groomed, she puts up with the brush for a few minutes, but then decides it’s really best used as a chew toy.

She’s a good little car rider and travels along nicely in her kennel.

Vivacious Tess is ready to find her  forever home and looking forward to fresh adventures. She’d love to share the excitement with you—and think how much fun it will be to see how big she gets and what she looks like as she grows!

#13-072 Tess, age 6 weeks

AVAILABLE ~ July 10

“Nursing mom w/ Pups - Golden enough for GRR? Came in stray yesterday with six kiddos. She’s only about two. Can you take?”

Wow, Mom looks like a Golden movie star—so our response was “You bet! Come on down!” Followed by: “Yikes!! Where are we going to find a foster home for seven dogs at one blow??” Our chief  foster coordinator got on the line and went down the list, and hooray! One of our long-time foster moms stepped up to help out.

And now … We’re delighted to introduce GRR’s latest group of celebrities (we understand they already have quite the Facebook following). Mama is so glamorous that her foster mom picked a superstar name for her – and the pups were all named for characters in movies featuring Julia (you know the one we mean!).  

While mom is a Golden through and through, her adorable kids—now about six weeks old—are quite the “variety pack.” We’re DNA testing them and should have the results in around three weeks; we’re all very curious to know just what went into the making of these darling fluffballs. And we’re thrilled to have a litter of Golden mix pups who all look so different – as you may recall, our last two batches of mixed pups have been almost all solid black!

Here are the pups’ first press releases… and we’ll have more news as they grow & change day by day.

At just over five pounds,  tricolored Eddie (black, brown, gold) is the sole boy in the family. “He’s the group’s Prince Charming.  He has a bold personality, which he will need as the only male in a house full of girls. He’s the tall (largest, at a little over 5 pounds), dark (tricolored) and handsome one of the bunch and for the most part is pretty laidback.. though if someone is ‘talking,’ it is usually Eddie.”

Little Viv—a tricolor, like brother Eddie—weighs in at just a shade over 4 pounds. She is the quietest of the puppies and just likes to get close and cuddle.

Four-pound Tess is another blonde bombshell in the making!  She is both sweet and feisty.  One minute she is loving on you; the next, she is trying to drum up some trouble.

At only 3 1/2 pounds, independent Anna doesn’t mind heading off from the pack.  She’s an all-black, curious puppy who can cover some ground!  She is a bit more reserved than the others and doesn’t get into the “sibling rivalry” quite as often.

Like her namesake Erin Brockovich, Erin has some big blonde hair… I mean, fur… and an even bigger personality. And she’s big size-wise, too, almost as hefty as Eddie!  She loves to lie on her back and try to paw you.  If you feel a nibble on your toes, most often it’s Erin trying to stir up some trouble!

Darby is the most petite pup of the group.  But what this black-and-white cutie lacks in size (she’s barely over 3 pounds) she makes up for in spunk!  She is one of the more vocal puppies and tends to be the instigator when they get into a puppy rumble. She often needs rescuing from being squashed from one of her larger siblings.