Golden Stories

Riley Bear was our first rescue from GRRSN and our most successful one. She came to us at age 4 and was our world for 6 years. She passed very unexpectedly in November (7/7/13-11/20/23). Riley [...]

We lost our beloved Sydney on July 18, 2022 and miss her terribly. Shadow, her brother, looks for her everywhere and lays in her favorite spots. I just donated to GRRSN using PayPal and I don’t [...]

Teddy Was Here   This is the story of a dog named Teddy. I got word that he died earlier today. It was all of a sudden with a type of tumor that happens with Golden Retrievers. At this point in [...]

Brandy was an amazing, beautiful dog that I’ll never forget. I spoiled her everyday.  Never once did I not take her out for a long walk before going to work, and we always went for another walk [...]

Dear GRRSN,   We have been in love with our Gregarious Golden Retriever named Rusty for 13 years. He was our baby.   He had an amazing personality. For instance, on his own accord, 12 years ago [...]

I wanted to inform you that we had to say goodbye to sweet Daisy (5). Thank you and GRRSN so much for the privilege to love her; she was such a blessing to our family. Thank you for the good work [...]

Dug became a member of our family on 8-27-2012. It was love at first sight for me and my kids and he loved us.  He was our world and we did everything together — hikes, trips to the park [...]

“I had a heartbreaking New Years.  Apollo crossed the rainbow bridge 😢 very unexpectedly.  I knew he had heart valve disease and horners syndrome, but he had a doggie cardiologist and optometrist [...]

We said goodby to Autumn today.  She was a wonderful dog.  Like a lot of Goldens, she had cancer.  After surgery and chemo, she was fine for about a year.  Then it spread to other parts of her [...]