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In Loving Memory of Molly 2000 - 2012
We were so lucky to have Molly come into our family. We first met her in June of 2007 when she was around seven years old. Although she was with us for only five and a half years, she was family. She gave us so much and will be terribly missed by our family and everyone with whom she met.
After a bit of research and looking, we finally found Molly in Alexandria. Our entire family drove to meet her and it was mutual love at first sight. Molly was a bit older and overweight, but she seemed to sense we were the family for her. She rolled on her back with her feet up in the air as if to say, “I am yours, please take me.” The foster parents said they never saw that before.
We had so many good times with Molly it is hard to talk about them all. We had a great time on trips with Molly, although she did not like the water. In fact she was a bit of a chicken when it came to water, cold, and snow. Molly liked walks early in her time with us, but the weather had to be just right. Too hot or too cold, she would turn back towards home.
Perhaps the one thing Molly liked the most was car rides. All you had to do was say “car ride”, and she would go nuts. Her hearing was not great in her later years, but it was as if she could read lips. You looked her in the face and asked if she wanted to go in the car and she lit up. Rides to the kids Grandmothers house was her favorite because she got a car ride and treats. She ran to the door each time, tail wagging and couldn’t wait to get in the car. Molly was gentle with everyone including the two cats she shared our house with. The older cat and Molly had a kind of mutual respect and shared water dishes, food, and the couch. The younger kitty was full of energy and loved to follow Molly at every turn. When the kitty was done trying to torment her, she would curl up in Molly’s fur to nap with her warm and cuddly friend. Molly gave us one last big gift on Christmas that we will never forget. When the entire family gathered for Christmas dinner, Molly was so content that she could not control her bowels and relieved herself right under the dinner table. Nobody was mad at Molly because we knew how difficult her last days were. We all just ate in the kitchen and sadly laughed at her final departing gift.
We wish Molly was here with us for many more Holiday’s to come, but her cancer, arthritis, hearing, and cognitive problems just became too much. Molly is hopefully resting in a better place today knowing that she touched a family in a way that will live on, long after the years pass by. Thank you so much RAGOM for giving us Molly. She was a VERY special, loving Retriever, a member of our family, who will always be in our heart. - John, Geri, Margie, and Jack
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My daughter was the one that wanted a Golden Retriever. She wanted a dog at a young age, but we told her she had to wait until she was ten. She started a dog sitting business when she was eight just to show us that she could care for a dog. When she was ready, she didn’t want just any animal, she wanted a RAGOM dog. My wife and I didn’t even know what that truly was.
From the day we first brought Molly home, this dog sensed that she was with a family that loved her. She got along with everyone she met. She just wanted attention and never to be left alone. Even when she was older and could barely make stairs, she always had to be with her family. She loved people and wanted more than anything to constantly be with all of us.
Molly loved to eat, as do most dogs, but there were some things she liked better than others. She liked toast in the morning and a spoon full of yogurt with her dog food. Later in her life she got rather picky about eating and we had a hard time hiding her pills in her food. She was funny the way she could pick around her pills to leave the smallest capsules in her bowel.
