Brewer

Friends at Golden Retriever Rescue Southern Nevada:

I wanted to send you a couple of pictures of Brewer and let you know how he is doing.

Brewer has settled right in at his new home with me. He has become quite the Velcro dog to me (which is what I was looking for). When he first got here, he was never more than 2 feet from my side, even when it was time to go outside and do his business. I had to actually go outside with him as if to say, “I’m not leaving you, I’ll be right here!” Even when I would go to work, he would follow me to the door. Now that he is settled in, I think he realizes that I ACTUALLY WILL RETURN!!!! He doesn’t follow me to the door anymore when I leave for work, but instead sleeps away on my bed (what a lush!).

However, I can always expect him on the other side of the door when I return home. He immediately sees that it is me, and then runs and gets a toy to hold in his mouth. He cracks me up!!!

One of his signature traits is his REQUIREMENT that HE carry his own leash. He basically takes himself for a walk. The first thing he does when we go for a walk, is jump up and pull the leash out of my hands and carry it in his mouth. I don’t even have to physically leash it to his collar. Everyone that he passes thinks it is so cute (and so do I).

His training is going really well. He has learned to sit on command, lay down and put his nose on his front feet and remain completely still until I release him. He also rolls over on command as well. We still haven’t quite figured out the whole shaking paws thing yet. He kind of gives me this stupid look when I ask him for his paw.

Another trait I’ve noticed about him is that he is quite a talker/whiner! Yes…a talker (not a barker) but talker/whiner. He will sit there and hem and haw and I’ll talk to him and, as if on cue, he will talk back to me. Sometimes he will sit there and just whimper these high pitched sounds instead of talking. It makes me laugh so hard when he does this.

He is extremely affectionate and well behaved and even tempered. I am actually a little surprised at how low key he is for an almost 3 year old.

He has been to the vet a couple of times, as the vet has found he has a category two heart murmur. The vet is monitoring it every 6 months to see if it progresses. As I was told, some dogs go their whole lives without any issues from a murmur, others can have it worsen and become life threatening. We are monitoring it closely and, as such, has not gone beyond a category 2. Here is to keeping our fingers crossed that it stays that way.

I couldn’t be more happy to have him a part of my family. He has filled the void created when I lost my golden, Emma, over a year ago. His timing to come into my life was perfect.

Thank you so much for helping me to find him.

I look forward to the summery dog days out at Green Valley. Also please keep me informed of other events where both of us could come to meet other owners and friends of GRRSN.

Tom & Brewer (he has such big feet, too!)