From Our Home to Theirs Each of our Vorderosa Puppies begins life surrounded by love, care, and connection. Watching them grow and find their furever families is one of the greatest joys of what we do. Puppies leave us and enter a new chapter, bringing joy, companionship, and unconditional love to their new home. Leo Danika Puppy We wanted to send a little Leo update! He has grown SO much since we picked him up in July. We can’t even really remember what it was like without him in our family. He’s healthy, in “kindergarten”, loves to play, be outside, take walks and snuggle. He thinks that socks, mittens, kitchen towels, toilet paper and undies are a real treat so we are always on his case about what is food or toys and what isn’t! He definitely tries to play us. He is very good at “sit,” “come,” and is learning how to “wait” and “leave it” (see the list of unavailable items above…we are getting a LOT of practice with “leave it”). He lets us know when it’s time for a bathroom break, and has figured out his crate is a safe and comfy place. - Alison Furever Home Photos

From Our Home to Theirs Each of our Vorderosa Puppies begins life surrounded by love, care, and connection. Watching them grow and find their furever families is one of the greatest joys of what we do. Puppies leave us and enter a new chapter, bringing joy, companionship, and unconditional love to their new home. Daisy (2) Jazmin Puppy Daisy is a year already! Time has flown! Daisy is such a sweet and goofy dog! She is also very smart (maybe a little too smart sometimes) We can’t imagine life without her. She loves to pose for pictures. - Sarah & John Furever Home Photos

From Our Home to Theirs Each of our Vorderosa Puppies begins life surrounded by love, care, and connection. Watching them grow and find their furever families is one of the greatest joys of what we do. Puppies leave us and enter a new chapter, bringing joy, companionship, and unconditional love to their new home. Poppy Akaysha Puppy Poppy is doing wonderful. She was sleeping through the night in her crate (11-5:30) by day two. She is eating well and growing fast! She really loves the girls. They have all been spending a ton of time playing in our yard. She wasn't so sure about bubbles or the swing at first, but now she is fine with all the action. We just love her so much! (October Update): Poppy is growing super fast!! She is such a smart girl. She will ring the hanging bells to let us know when she has to go potty. And she just realized we have grouse and squirrels outside the fence. She gets super excited and runs the yard when she spots them. She is constantly dragging our bath mats and rugs around the house. And hiding shoes! - Melissa and Jaime Furever Home Photos

From Our Home to Theirs Each of our Vorderosa Puppies begins life surrounded by love, care, and connection. Watching them grow and find their furever families is one of the greatest joys of what we do. Puppies leave us and enter a new chapter, bringing joy, companionship, and unconditional love to their new home. Niko Shiloh Puppy He is such a happy sweet friendly puppy. He's still a little social butterfly, he just loves people/dogs and has a calm demeanor when approaching them. When we are at the dog park he runs right up to people, smiles really big, wiggles his behind and rubs on their leg... he’s like hi do you see me... it’s so cute. Its so funny, when we are walking and people approach he will sit down and either wait for them to pass or if OK he will calmly say hi. I’ve never had a puppy that behaves as good as he does. I prepared myself to loose shoes, furniture, have holes in the wall from him trying to eat them, etc... but he really hasn’t done any of those things, he’s hardly wrecked anything. Everyone says he is so beautiful and they mention his big paws. - Danika Furever Home Photos

From Our Home to Theirs Each of our Vorderosa Puppies begins life surrounded by love, care, and connection. Watching them grow and find their furever families is one of the greatest joys of what we do. Puppies leave us and enter a new chapter, bringing joy, companionship, and unconditional love to their new home. Millie Shiloh Puppy Millie does so well in the office! I work at a dog-friendly hotel on the University of Minnesota campus. On busy days, she gets to be the "canine concierge" and walk around the lobby getting pets and love from students and guests. Millie does a lot of the promotional content for our dog-friendly program, which involves posing for pictures and being bribed with treats. She is extremely treat motivated so it doesn't take much! My hope is to volunteer in the Children's Hospital bi-weekly. Millie does really well around children since she is so calm and gentle. I cannot wait to see her in this new role. - Kate Furever Home Photos

From Our Home to Theirs Each of our Vorderosa Puppies begins life surrounded by love, care, and connection. Watching them grow and find their furever families is one of the greatest joys of what we do. Puppies leave us and enter a new chapter, bringing joy, companionship, and unconditional love to their new home. Bailey Shiloh Puppy I wanted to send an update on Bailey! This summer we learned that she has a love for swimming, paddle boarding, digging, hammocking and being in the outdoors like us! She also loves working as a service dog and gets really excited to put her working harness on. Here are some pictures of her enjoying her favorite activities. - Autumn Furever Home Photos

From Our Home to Theirs Each of our Vorderosa Puppies begins life surrounded by love, care, and connection. Watching them grow and find their furever families is one of the greatest joys of what we do. Puppies leave us and enter a new chapter, bringing joy, companionship, and unconditional love to their new home. Hadley Danika Puppy We wanted to share a Hadley update. Hadley continues to bring much joy and laughter to our lives especially playing in the snow! Winter is definitely her season as no walk is complete without running and prancing through deep snow! We are blessed to have her in our lives. - Angie & Jeremy Furever Home Photos

From Our Home to Theirs Each of our Vorderosa Puppies begins life surrounded by love, care, and connection. Watching them grow and find their furever families is one of the greatest joys of what we do. Puppies leave us and enter a new chapter, bringing joy, companionship, and unconditional love to their new home. Whiskey This sweet pup came from one of our earliest litters. Whiskey continues to love life in Northern Minnesota. Although spring was slow on coming (it snowed 4 inches last week) it has finally come, and so the adventuring begins! Even though the water is FREEZING, that hasn't stopped him from going in the lake, although admittedly he may have over-committed on a lean and fallen in the first time! It sure is hard to balance 38 lbs of puppy sometimes! Water fetch is now his favorite game. He went fishing for the first time a few weeks ago and earlier this week he took his first trip into the BWCA. His training is going well and Ruth is starting the long process of getting him certified as a service dog. The biggest challenge will be getting him to listen to another handler as part of the final testing process, because he does NOT like it when she is out of sight. - Ruth & Zach Furever Home Photos

From Our Home to Theirs Each of our Vorderosa Puppies begins life surrounded by love, care, and connection. Watching them grow and find their furever families is one of the greatest joys of what we do. Puppies leave us and enter a new chapter, bringing joy, companionship, and unconditional love to their new home. Bennie Akaysha Puppy Bennie amazes us and fills our home with joy every day! We are learning her personality and have found that she LOVES the snow! We go outside a lot for potty breaks and for noise/environmental desensitization. She is adjusting well and does not scare easily by the noises. The same can be said of indoors (blenders, food processors, nail trimmer, dishes/pans, etc). She is doing very well with basic commands (sit, come, down, touch—nose to palm, and up (stand). She is also learning stay, leave it, off, and drop it. She can also do fun commands like roll over, shake and high five. She loves to meet new people and easily wins hearts. She is very easy to love. She has enriched our lives. 2021 Update: She continues to grow and amaze us. She is lean, muscular, active and very agile. She is very loving and cuddly (when she is not tired then she just wants to be left alone). She loves to take multiple walks daily, sniff all things and pick up, carry and drop all the sticks she finds along the way. She makes us laugh and fills us with joy. - Laura & Tito Furever Home Photos

From Our Home to Theirs Each of our Vorderosa Puppies begins life surrounded by love, care, and connection. Watching them grow and find their furever families is one of the greatest joys of what we do. Puppies leave us and enter a new chapter, bringing joy, companionship, and unconditional love to their new home. Doc Autumn Puppy We have a great dog training club not too far from us where we train. All of the instructors love him, and he enjoys engaging in class. At the age of two he still has times when he acts like a giant puppy and can be a bit wild, but he is always fun and incredibly sweet. We are also preparing to get his AKC Certified Farm Dog title. There is a club in the Iron Range that is planning to host a test day next spring. At that time we’ll also take the test for the Novice Trick Dog title, and maybe the Intermediate Trick Dog title as well. In the spring we should also be ready for competition rally. He is technically ready for novice rally now; it’s me who needs to work on learning the signs and courses. AUGUST 2023 UPDATE: You may also like to know that the temperament testing you and your grandson did with him as a puppy was spot-on. And the noise desensitizing you did with the litter was also incredibly helpful. He is what I call “bomb-proof;” he isn’t bothered in the least by fireworks, gunshots, thunder, sirens, or alarms. If something does happen to startle him, he completely recovers even before I can tell him it’s okay. He is also very treat motivated, which means he is a dream to train. Of course it helps that he is also quite smart. This year has been extra exciting for him since he decided water and swimming can actually be enjoyable. Perhaps he finally realized he was the only golden retriever who disliked water and should re-evaluate his position on the matter...I told you he’s a smart one. His retrieving instinct is also wonderfully strong; he “retrieves” laundry tirelessly from the hamper. Nothing makes one smile like being greeted by a Golden with a gift (even if it’s dirty socks). - Bonnie & Nicholas Furever Home Photos