Retriever Rescue

Can you believe it's a whole year today since Mr Bentley came to live with us and stole our hearts clean away?

I remember the scared little ball of white fluff we brought home with us. Just look at him now:



Sorry about the emoticons - I haven't lost the plot, my 4 year old granddaughter picked them!

Posted twice , thought my first effort had failed.

Happy home day Bentley, Lesley and family. WHERE DID THE TIME GO. So happy for you all, you really have made a great team, you and your boy.
What a handsome young man, he's a stunner.

oh Bentley, you lucky lad. one year in your forever home. My children both go gooey eyed everytime they see a picture of you and then there's a resounding aaahhhhh. 12 months of your muddy antics and we still enjoy reading how your getting on. happy forever home day x

Happy forever home day Bentley.
I don't know where has that year gone but we all know where you have been in it. Mostly muddy puddles.

Well. It might be a sign of him growing up but (whisper it) he hasn't had a proper wallow for ages so I haven't got any recent muddy pictures to show you.

Mind you I think the fact we've had a lot of frost and snow has helped quite a lot. I'm sure normal muddiness will be resumed as soon as the rain returns.

Talking of him growing up.... I've even taken the 'baffler' out of his food bowl as he's slowed down his eating from a strong inhale to a fast scoff

Still on the subject of growing up. Most times now we have a fantastic recall - even when there are other dogs involved - except for this morning Cue: Me running and shouting his name while he frolicked merrily ignoring me.

He's training for his good citizen bronze award. Lets hope there aren't any other dogs around when he's doing it because then he just wants to partyyyyyyyy!!

Thanks for your nice comments, everyone. We do make a good team, don't we?

Belated happy birthday Bentley, what a handsome lad he has become, I can't believe where the time has gone.
It was lovely while we had the snow and frost...no wallowing from Cobi, (sorry to be negative Lesley... Cobi is 9 in June and still wallowing)

Awww Happy forever home day Bentley!