Welcome Home Leah!! Hi from Madrid.

Hi, we are new to this site. I have a 15 week old Golden Retriever and am on GoldenRetrieverForum.com all the time, but now I have Leah so I wanted to join this as well. I love sharing stories and learning from others about my dogs.

Background on new baby Leah. Two months ago we rescued Princess Bobbie the Golden from a horrible backyard breeder she came with a ton of health problems and bills....anyhow 2 weeks after that I saw an ad online from a town about an hour from where we are stationed in Spain. The ad was for 1 day old GS pups and said it was urgent that they be taken....they would make good guard dogs, ect. I was outraged and called the person and said I would take the litter and parents. They ended up giving me 5 pups at 3 days old. It was a horrible site. They were outside in the dirt with no shelter and covered...I mean covered in flies. They were near dead. The bitch was 11 years old and blind and didnt lactate. They refused us taking the parents and another person took 3 babies. I have posted pictures of the journey and babies on the Golden Retriever website and to date more than 7,000 people have viewed and talked about the story.

Anyhow. After 5.5 weeks of no sleep, all but one of the pups has found a perm. future home. Since the first day we have had a favorite pup...her name was purple..they all got ribbons when I brought them home. We have always thought she was the most beautiful and smartest pup...for some reason no family has shown any interest in her. My husband and I believe it is because she is already home. The plot thickens....they day these pups were born was a very sad day at my home as we lost our previous Dog...A Griffin to old age complications. His name was Leo. Of course we were not looking to rescue a littler, but we think when Leo passed he sent us these puppies. We think a part of Leo came back in Leah and she is meant to be ours. She is the smallest of the pack weighing in at just over 6lbs at 5 weeks and 3 days old.

She is not full Shepherd. the Mother was a beautiful Brown and Black GSD and the dad was a GS/ Boxer mix.

I look forward to being a part of this forum and I am sure I will have a lot of questions..I already do. She is our first Shepherd and we are in love already with our little bundle of fur!!