Gigi’s Goldens

14/12/2023

Missing puppies this year. Hoping for spring pups to share!😍😊

18/06/2023

😂👍🏻

01/11/2022

Grown -up pup! 😍

29/10/2022

Mama Rosie found arms to love her all the way in New Orleans!

08/10/2022

“Brandy”🥰
Our one golden doodle found her home in Winston -Salem by the end of the summer👏🏻

01/10/2022

Our future Mom and Dad are growing up!🤗😍

11/09/2022

Remembering 9/11

18/07/2022

Isn’t this true?

16/07/2022

The Jarrett’s sweetie

13/07/2022

We are looking for a special home for Rosie!
She was raised with children and babies,
She’s good with cats and other dogs, inside or out.
All vet and genetic records available.
She will be 5 this summer and is about to be spayed. We hope to find a family that will lavish her with love. Rehoming fee comparable with rescue.

04/07/2022

“Eppie”

26/05/2022

We kept one of Rosie’s pups for our future stud.
Introducing “Lumber Jack of the Deep Branch” aka Jack 🤩

28/04/2022

Goldens are the best!

23/02/2022

This big boy found his family!🥰

12/02/2022

09/02/2022

Judy, a purebred pointer, was the mascot of several ships in the Pacific, and was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and taken to a prison camp. There she met Aircraftsman Frank Williams, who shared his small portion of rice with her.

Judy raised morale in the POW camp, and also barked when poisonous snakes, crocodiles or even tigers approached the prisoners. When the prisoners were shipped back to Singapore, she was smuggled out in a rice sack, never whimpering or betraying her presence to the guards.

The next day, that ship was torpedoed. Williams pushed Judy out of a porthole in an attempt to save her life, even though there was a 15-foot drop to the sea. He made his own escape from the ship, but was then recaptured and sent to a new POW camp.

He didn't know if Judy had survived, but soon he began hearing stories about a dog helping drowning men reach pieces of debris after the shipwreck. And when Williams arrived at the new camp, he said: "I couldn’t believe my eyes! As I walked through the gate, a scraggly dog hit me square between the shoulders and knocked me over. I’d never been so glad to see the old girl!"

They spent a year together at that camp in Sumatra. "Judy saved my life in so many ways," said Williams. "But the greatest of all was giving me a reason to live. All I had to do was look into those weary, bloodshot eyes and ask myself: 'What would happen to her if I died?' I had to keep going."

Once hostilities ceased, Judy was then smuggled aboard a troopship heading back to Liverpool. In England, she was awarded the Dickin Medal (the "Victoria Cross" for animals) in May 1946. Her citation reads: "For magnificent courage and endurance in Japanese prison camps, which helped to maintain morale among her fellow prisoners, and also for saving many lives through her intelligence and watchfulness".

At the same time, Frank Williams was awarded the PDSA's White Cross of St. Giles for his devotion to Judy. Frank and Judy spent a year after the war visiting the relatives of English POWs who had not survived, and Frank said that Judy "always provided a comforting presence to the families."

When Judy finally died at the age of 13, Frank spent two months building a granite and marble memorial in her memory, which included a plaque describing her life story.

09/02/2022

“Mia” has been welcomed into her new family🥰

05/02/2022

One live Valentine’s snuggler available. Male❤️💙

04/02/2022

“Did you know it’s National Golden Retriever Day”

01/02/2022

Our girl has a family!🎀

29/01/2022

Male and female available

29/01/2022

Litter D

20/01/2022

Playtime 💙💙

09/01/2022

One of these boys is available!

06/01/2022

3 pups this fall!
Litter D

20/10/2021

Rosie and her last pup!