My golden retriever, Callie, is so easy to please. She finds great pleasure in our day-to-day routine, which helps me to enjoy the simple things. She loves to jump on the couch with her favorite toys and roll around while I clap my hands.
I'm a natural golden retriever at heart. I'm fine with that now, but there was a time when I tried to keep myself from jumping up on people. I had to make myself sit.
Hey, do you know what you call a blond with a brain?" I asked, and the continued on the same breath, "a golden retriever." I've heard that one, too," she said, no longer smiling. I'll keep trying." I promised.
I have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He's a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind.
Try throwing a ball just once for a dog. It would be like eating only one peanut or potato chip. Try to ignore the importuning of a Golden Retriever who has brought you his tennis ball, the greatest treasure he possesses!
I've been surrounded by dogs my whole life. I got a golden retriever a year after I was born.
Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.
Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.
I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
I call my golden retriever Cara my 'white wolf.' She's changed my attitude and made me write this book where the wolf is the hero, not the villain.
My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever.