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| Photo of Coach's dog tag saying Coach. |
Friday at 2 pm, I drove down to Southeastern Guide Dogs with Coach's sponsor (Austin) and Austin's cousin Connor. We were going to pick up Coach.
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| Coach, a black goldadore, is being readied for pickup. |
The puppy kennel staff is getting Coach ready for us after his bath. Coach weighs 32 pounds!!! Turns out he is actually 17 weeks old, and was born on March 24, 2012 not April 11th like we first thought. The 4-1-1 idea was a cool thought though. 8-)
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| Connor watches as Austin holds Coach for the first time. |
Here are Austin and Connor with the first holding of Coach.
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| Coach looks over Austin's knee from the floorboard of the car. |
Coach turned out to be in need of some tough love on the way home. He kept trying to get up on the seat and Austin had to be firm and put him back on the floorboard. It was very tough on Austin. He has a sensitive heart and really didn't want to hold the line on this, but he did. Coach stayed on the floorboards.
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| Austin and Connor are seated on the porch and Coach is seated in front of Austin. |
As you can see, Coach is really a big guy. He's already almost at Austin's knees.
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| Austin holds Coach as Coach's legs dangle down like an octopus's. |
He and Austin bonded. Austin asked me on the way back if I thought Coach would remember him. I think that is a given. They spent some quality time together in the car. 8-)
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| Connor, Austin (with Coach in his arms) and Allie. |
Here are Austin, Connor and Austin's sister Allie with Coach.
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| Coach is sitting, staring up into the camera. The sun is filtered onto the floor behind him. |
Finally here is a photo of sweet baby Coach, with the sun in his eyes. He is going to be a big boy we think. He is a month younger than his neighbor Coastie and Coastie weighs only 6 pounds more. And Fred said a paw camparison revealed Coach has some pretty massive paws. But, when you are named after the Head Football Coach (Coach Dominick Ciao), being a big guy isn't a problem. It's an asset!
That's our story and we're sticking to it.
Coach has a completely sweet face! I bet he'll have a fun personality too.
ReplyDeleteWOW - he is 5 weeks younger than Merlot and is almost as big!! Such a sweet pup!
ReplyDeleteOh, Coach! What a big boy! I'm looking forward to see him post!
ReplyDeleteWelcome Coach!
ReplyDeleteHe sounds like such a wonderful boy. I also love golden retrievers, so I'm a little bias about Coach, since he's part golden :)
Btw. I love your picture descriptions, I feel as though I can actually see them from your words.
Thanks so much for the compliment. I know a lot of people don't give lots of photo descriptions, but I learned from puppy raiser Rebecca Hall that it was really important to include them. I've tried to do it every time.
DeleteCoach seems to be very mellow. We'll see how long that lasts! haha!
Welcome Coach! I obviously missed this post as when I saw the pic of him in your other post, I was astounded by the largeness of him. :))
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