Thanks. He really adopted us. We have always had goldens, since I was a little girl. We were breeders for a good part of my childhood. Our sweet golden died in 2012 and my mom decided that since she's getting older she wanted a smaller dog. The dog she got is a great dog but he's no golden. We had a golden lab/golden retriever mix and she died in spring 2014. That just made us miss goldens more. So when he appeared in our driveway it was very obvious that we needed a golden. (I live across the driveway from my mom so the dogs are hers but mine too in a sense). I fell in love with him immediately and was so glad the owner gave him to me. We've improved his quality of life so much and just the last 2 months he's starting to gain confidence and seems more sure that nothing bad is going to happen. A year ago if it were raining or snowing and we let him out he'd go to the back of the fenced yard and wouldn't understand he could come back when he'd peed. Now he runs back in with the other dog.

The scary kid hasn't been past again. My mom saw the car and the kid was in it but with a woman driving and nothing happened (she was walking the other dog). So we're hoping it was a fluke. Just this week the dogs learned to walk together without dominance issues so we aren't walking alone as much and that's a good thing on our rural road.

goldens are the best.