Nell (Venus 08-131) [1]

Welcome to RAGOM Venus!! This blonde beauty came to our house in Oakdale today and wow is she stunning! Venus is a 3 1/2 year old PB, female Golden Retriever. Venus was surrendered to RAGOM because her owner could no longer care for her. She came in with 2 other dogs (Zeuss and Athena), and lived as an outdoor dog the majority of her life. She seems to be in great physical condition, other than a possible ear infection (imagine that!!?), but we will get her into the vet asap so they can check her out just to make sure all is well! She probably weighs about 70 lbs, maybe less? Has a thick and gorgeous blonde coat, and those wonderful golden retriever puppy dog eyes that are impossible to resist :)

Venus is very, very sweet. Loves to snuggle up on the couch and get some love. She has the typical golden retriever "LOVE ME!!!" thing going on! She does the nose nudge, and the paw... just in case you forget to keep petting her, she will be sure to remind you! She walks pretty well on a leash, a little pulling but not horrible at all. A Gentle Leader would surely help this, or maybe just some training and more work on a leash and that would do the trick. She seems to know the basic commands: sit, down, come. Unknown if she is potty trained? She is very afraid to come down the stairs and a little afraid going in and out of doorways, but will learn it is all ok very fast. She also seems a little hand shy at first.

She met the resident "girls" with a few growls, but nothing major. She is pretty much ignoring them at the moment, but I don't anticipate any problems at all. The wonderful volunteer who temp fostered her last night (THANKS Darci!!) said that she was growly with Sadie, her resident female, at first too. When we came to pick her up it was like they were the best of friends! So... they are just talking in dog language and figuring each other out. I will report back on how it goes with my residents in the days to come.

Venus will make some lucky family a very wonderful companion! We are smitten already :) Stay tuned... and, believe me... her pictures do not do her justice! She wasn't feeling very photogenic tonight :) We'll try for more tomorrow!

Thanks for reading up on Venus!