Hi Tim and Barbie,
I can’t tell you enough how much we love our new little family member! We changed Bond’s name to Brady – he is such a love bug, that Bond was just a bit to “macho” for him. : )Brady spent the weekend in SLO with us, and you’d think he’d been with us since birth! After we left your place on Friday, we met up for dinner with our daughter and friends. Brady just slept peacefully under our table (we ate outdoors) the entire dinner. The next day we went wine tasting in Paso Robles, and he was welcomed at every tasting room (except one, obviously not dog people) That night we took him to Sami’s sorority fundraiser auction, and everyone was asking if Brady was up for auction. They were ready to start bidding right then!
We stayed at a very dog friendly hotel in Avila Beach. He spent some time at the beach with us, and we were literally stopped by everyone on the beach admiring, praising and petting little Brady! We had absolutely no problems at all with “going potty”, crate sleeping etc. He’s a dream!
When we got home on Sunday, we were all beat. Brady thought he probably got adopted by a “party family” and wanted to rest! Our only dilemma we have at home is the area we had designated as his potty area is all gravel. He will not go on gravel. John had to actually go out and20buy a large piece of sod so he’d go. I’d take him out to our front yard which is all grass, but I hated doing that in my pajamas at 6:30 in the morning as the neighbors drove by! On Sunday our landscaper is coming in to convert a corner of our yard to grass.
Brady is the sweetest companion we could ever ask for. Your dogs have absolutely the best disposition or temperament of any pet we’ve ever seen! We have been trying to keep up with all the basic commands. Last night as we were watching your training DVD, Brady started responding to it! It was the funniest thing to see.
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to enjoy one of the best Goldies we could ever have! (People around here haven’t seen too many cream colored GR’s, so they keep calling him a lab)
Who knows, maybe another one may be in the horizon one of these days!
Best regards,
Barbara and John Kawahara
