Well...I was brought home in the summer of 2003...my mom was grieving for loosing her companion Bandit after 14 years....Mom still had a 9 year old Black Lab at home that needed a friend....so she found an add in the paper about me and my brothers and sisters in LaPine Oregon...so she and her sister traveled over the river and through the woods to LaPine....I was the only puppy that was Golden and not the light colored yellow lab....I was also the littlist lab of the bunch...so I went home with my mom and her sister with Beth the Black lab which would turn out to me my best mentor....the next day we went out to the river and I jumped in....that was five years ago...now everyweek when my mom has a day off we are off to the river and woods....You see I like to swim...alot....and rearrange the rocks in the river....and run...Run and Run....and now I have another playmate named Wylie....we got her a year after I came home...she is my companion....so me and mom and Wylie go for walks and mom takes us to the river everyweek....Winter or summer...because if she doesn't....I will act sad until she does....I know how to play my mom....I think she knows it but she just pretends to not know....Because I have the best mom in the world....Me and Wylie and Mom!!!