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A non-profit rescue organization for Golden Retrievers in the greater central Texas area.

20/12/2025

📣🎉 Adoption Announcement 🎉📣

It has truly been a long time coming!
We are overly excited to announce River GRR 25-101 has found his forever home!! 🏠🐾🦮

River is a sweet gentle young golden pup who had a tragic fall down a flight of stairs and fractured his humerus bone. Due to financial hardships and the physical challenges of navigating several flights of stairs, River’s family made the heartbreaking decision to surrender him to GRR so he could receive the care he desperately needed.

He underwent a required specialized surgery to repair his right leg. And rehabilitated with two of our longtime amazing foster families.
When River was cleared to have fun outside of his crate, he became quite the entertainer of the year! This little guy received so much love and care beyond measure. From having various toys to play with, tending to his medical needs, his foster mom introducing him to yummy green beans!, to organizing calm picnics in the back yard so he can enjoy the outdoors, and spending a love filled thanksgiving with one of his foster families getting all the cuddles and attention!

River would love to give many hugs and kisses to his supporters, our medical partners, GRR volunteers, and his two foster families. Your support made his journey seamless, that led him to be in his furever home for Christmas. You all have a special place in River’s heart 💛

Congratulations to River, and his loving pawrents! 🥳They are excited about starting this next chapter of their lives with this cutie, and immediately fell in love with him! It is no doubt he will be the center of their world 🥰

20/12/2025

🎄🐾 ONLY 5 SLEEPS UNTIL CHRISTMAS! 🐾🎄

Santa Paws is checking his list… and honestly, Goldens are making it VERY hard for him this year 😇😈

Is your Golden:
✨ Nice — helping wrap presents, guarding the tree, giving bonus kisses?
🔥 Naughty — stealing ornaments, unwrapping gifts early, relocating stockings, or “accidentally” eating the cookies?

We want to SEE it! 📸
👉 Drop a photo of your Golden being naughty or nice
👉 Tell us why in the comments

Bonus points if:
• They’re innocent-looking but clearly guilty
• There’s evidence of a crime
• They were “helping” and chaos followed

Santa Paws is watching… but let’s be real — all Goldens are getting treats anyway 🎁🐶💛

20/12/2025

🎄 Our Tree of Hope Needs You — Before December 31 🎄

This tree is more than lights and ornaments.
It’s made of second chances.
It’s built on compassion.
And every single decoration represents a life that needed help… and found it because someone cared.

Behind our Tree of Hope are Golden Retrievers who came to us scared, injured, abandoned, or simply forgotten. Dogs who had no idea what love felt like anymore — until you showed up. Every gift placed on this tree helps cover medical care, safe shelter, warm beds, full bellies, and the chance at a forever home.

As the year comes to a close, our need is urgent. The holidays are especially hard for rescue — more intakes, more medical cases, more souls depending on us. We cannot do this without our community.

✨ You have until December 31 to be part of this miracle.
Place a gift on the Tree of Hope in honor of someone you love… or in memory of someone you miss. Celebrate a life. Save another.

Your donation may look like a star, an ornament, or a present on a screen — but to a Golden in need, it looks like:
🐾 Safety
🐾 Healing
🐾 Hope
🐾 A future

Please don’t let this tree stand unfinished. Help us end the year by proving that kindness still wins and that no dog is invisible.

💛 Donate to the Tree of Hope today.
Because hope doesn’t grow on trees…
it grows because of you.

https://grr-tx.org/tree/

19/12/2025

Please welcome 25-119 Hobbs to GRR. He was an emergency intake last night. He was living on the streets, injured and in a very unsafe area. We had a wonderful volunteer drop everything to get him safely into our care and tucked away at the vet clinic last night. We are getting his medical needs assessed today. He needs another holiday miracle and we need an already approved foster for him. We think he’s about 1 yr old. He is so sweet!!

If you would like to foster or adopt from GRR please visit our website to get the process started, www.grr-tx.com- please note the areas we place dogs are Austin and San Antonio and closely surrounding areas.

19/12/2025

Please welcome 25-118 Hollywood to GRR. He comes to us from the Weslaco shelter. He was found as a stray with his buddy Figgy (also coming to GRR). When the shelter contacted us to see if we could spring him as well to get him out of a stressful shelter for the holidays. So to GRR he comes. We are excited to learn more about him while he settles into his foster home.

If you are interested in fostering or adopting from GRR please visit our website to get the process started, www.grr-tx.com - please note the areas we place dogs are Austin and San Antonio and closely surrounding areas.

19/12/2025

Dear Santa Paws,

Hi Santa!

It's us-all of the available Goldens at GRR writing together with one big wagging tail and a whole lot of hope.

We know this is your busiest time of year, and we promise we've been very good (well... mostly-we're Goldens after all). We sit politely, give the best kisses, and we never mean to steal socks. We just really love people.

Santa, we don't need toys, treats, or fancy beds this Christmas. What we want most can't be wrapped with a bow. All we're wishing for is a furever home.

Each of us is dreaming of a family to love-someone to greet at the door, someone to walk beside, someone whose couch we can borrow (and whose heart we promise to guard). We have so much love to give: endless tail wags, loyal companionship, and the kind of joy only a Golden can bring.

Some of us are young and full of zoomies. Some of us are older and wiser and just want a soft place to rest our heads. But every single one of us is wishing for the same thing: to belong.

So Santa, if you could sprinkle a little Christmas magic our way and help the right humans find us, we promise to be the best gift they've ever received. Because once a Golden finds their family, it's forever.

Thank you for listening to our Christmas wish.

With hopeful hearts and wagging tails,

All of the Available GRR Goldens💛

17/12/2025

Update… turns out Figgy is a boy and not a girl as we were originally told. So HE is going to habe an amaxing life now that he’s a GRR dog!!!

Please welcome 25-117 Figgy to GRR. She comes to us from the Weslaco shelter in the Rio Grand Valley. We really don’t know much about her so we are very excited to learn everything we can. We do know she has the most precious face ever!!

If you are interested in fostering or adopting from GRR please visit our website to get the process started, www.grr-tx.com.- please note the areas we place dogs are Austin and San Antonio and closely surrounding areas

16/12/2025

Please help us welcome this little sweetheart 25-116 Peppermint Schnapps! She’s 18 months old and is just precious. She was rehomed to GRR as her previous owner didn’t have the time she felt this little golden gem needs to thrive and live her best life and trusted GRR to be the best option to find the perfect forever family for her. We are excited to learn more about her over the next few weeks as she settles in with her foster family.

If you are Interested In fostering or adopting from GRR please visit our website to get the process started, www.grr-tx.com - please note the areas we place dogs are Austin and San Antonio and closely surrounding areas

16/12/2025

📣💜 Adoption Announcement 💜📣

We are delighted to announce sweet Mazie 25-108 has officially found her forever family! 💕🏠

This 9-year-old angel came to us from the Austin area after losing her beloved owner. While family stepped in to care for her, they knew Mazie deserved a stable, long-term home filled with love - and GRR was honored to take her in and help Mazie find her happy tails!

Mazie had a few bumps along the road, including a growth on her eyelid that was irritating her eye and a minor tail injury, but her gentle spirit never wavered. She’s proven to be incredibly resilient, affectionate, and grateful for every soft bed, kind word, and belly rub 🥰

Congratulations to Mazie, her pawrents, and her fur sibling Arizona! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Now safe, cherished, and surrounded by love, Mazie is starting her next chapter exactly where she belongs! 🐾💖

13/12/2025

Please welcome this handsome hunk 25-115 Champ to GRR. He is just over 14 months old and is sadly a product very poor breeding and has dysplasia in all of his joints. He was surrendered to GRR so we can get a better assessment of his medical needs and figure out how to get him to a place of being pain free and living his best life. We have a lot to get figured out to know what his journey will entail. His medical costs will be extensive and his previous family was not able to accommodate them.

If you are interested in fostering or adopting from GRR please visit our website to get the process started, www.grr-tx.com - please note the areas we place dogs are Austin and San Antonio and closely surrounding areas

12/12/2025

🎄🐾 WHAT’S YOUR GOLDEN’S ELF NAME? 🐾🎄

So clearly the North Pole needs backup. The elves are exhausted.
The reindeer are confused.
And someone definitely ate the Naughty List. And YOUR pup has been drafted. Your Golden has officially joined Santa’s squad… mostly because they heard “elves get snacks.” 🍪

But first—we need to know their Elf Name.

👇 HOW TO PLAY:
✨ STEP 1: Find your Golden’s COLOR
✨ STEP 2: Match the FIRST LETTER of their NAME
✨ STEP 3: Reveal their true Elf identity!

Post your Golden’s Elf Name below! Pics welcome. Encouraged. Required? Yes. Always yes.

👇AND GO!

10/12/2025

🚨 ALERT: EXTREMELY IMPORTANT GOLDEN NEWS 🚨

A whirlwind of furry joy named Doc will be arriving in our care tomorrow, December 10th!

Doc is an owner surrender, but not because he did anything wrong. His family realized that with several kiddos running around (ages 5–11), they simply couldn’t give this sweet, energetic teenager the time and attention he truly deserves. And honestly? At 14 months old, Doc is basically a furry toddler himself—just with better hair and a more impressive wiggle.

His family realized they simply couldn’t keep up with the furry Olympic athlete in their home—especially when Doc entered his “parkour phase” (which is still ongoing). So now he’s coming to GRR, where we specialize in professional chaos appreciation.

Doc facts we strongly suspect but cannot confirm (yet):
✨ Thinks “fetch” means “you chase ME.”
✨ Believes every door should be a revolving door.
✨ Has never met a water bowl he didn’t want to step in.
✨ Gives kisses like he’s been hired to exfoliate your entire face.

So please join us in welcoming Doc, a golden retriever whose life motto is:
“If I’m not supposed to zoom, why do I have legs?”

Stay tuned for updates, because something tells us Doc’s adventure is about to be legendary. 🐾💛

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