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"Feed Your Dog,
Save a Dog's Life!"

GRRMF has a relationship with Life's Abundance - makers of premium dog food and other natural pet products!

You get a discount, and GRRMF receives a portion of the proceeds!

click on the link below for additional information and sample offer.

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Welcome To GRRMF !
Come join us in our mission to rescue and re-home Golden Retrievers!

 



 

Summer is Just Around The Corner
Here are a few seasonal reminders for you and your canine companions.

GARDENING
STORMS
HEAT


Springtime in the garden

Be sure all your new garden plantings will be safe for your pets should they become interested in laying near them or chewing on them. Here is one of many links available for gardening with pets:

ASPCA Guide to Pet-Safe Gardening
(Plants, Fertilizer, Mulch and more!)


Wearing my thundershirt

Storms can be scarry to some Goldens. Be prepared with a helping hand to keep them comfortable. Here are just a few links to check out for storm anxiety:

Storm Anxiety Article
Bach Rescue Remedy
Thundershirts For Dogs
(The Golden pictured is wearing a Thundershirt.)


Springtime heat

Just as you need sunscreen and hydration, don't forget an outdoor water bowl and shady spot for your canine companion. Please see our:


Summer Heat Article

 



 

Be A GRRMF Calendar Alumni
Enter our 2014 Calendar Contest

GRRMF 2013 Calendar Cover GRRMF 2012 Calendar Cover GRRMF 2011 Calendar Cover GRRMF 2010 Calendar Cover GRRMF 2009 Calendar Cover GRRMF 2008 Calendar Cover GRRMF 2006 Calendar Cover GRRMF 2003-04 Calendar Cover

Above are just some of the covers we have had over the past few years.
Join us and make your Golden one of our calendar alumni.

Get out those cameras and take this opportunity to catch your golden in that perfect pose.
Your golden + Your camera = Fun photos to last a lifetime! Why not share them with us.
Don't miss your opportunity to make your Golden a star!

We are accepting calendar photo submissions through July 4, 2013.

For complete details, see our
CALENDAR CONTEST Page.

For tips on taking the perfect photos, see our
PHOTO TIPS Page.

 



 

GRRMF In The News!
See our wonderful Maverick making his TV debut.

 

Click on the links below to see Maverick
and hear his story:

ABC Action News Rescue-In-Action segment

and at

ABC Action News Rescue-In-Action YouTube video

(Please Note - since this was part of a live broadcast, it begins with a short news segment before Rescue In Action begins.)

 

Maverick came into the Golden Retriever Rescue of Mid Florida when his "Mom" became seriously ill and could no longer care for him.

This 11-year-old cuddle bug is the social butterfly of the doggie park. Everyone that meets him falls instantly in love. There is not a person, place or thing that he doesn't like. Even the 13 year old cats that he lives with love him. They will snuggle up to him and Maverick lets them lick his face.

Maverick's foster Mom has put him on the green bean diet and he is proud of his new slim and trim body. Good food and exercise is all it takes to make this teddy bear feel good about himself.

Maverick has no bad habits - he is a tad afraid of thunder storms - but if he is near his humans he settles down and goes to sleep. He doesn't get up on furniture and will sleep by the side of your bed. If you are looking for the perfect companion this gentle boy is the one for you. He knows nothing about distance - he only lives to be close.

If you are interested in adopting, please visit our HOW TO ADOPT page and fill out an application.

 



 

The Foster Home Experience

We place each Golden in foster care for the best possible environment while awaiting their new family.
The more Goldens we have the more foster homes we need.


We are looking for a few good homes. Is yours the one we are looking for? Our dilemma is ... WE NEED FOSTER HOME HELP!

ISSUE:
Our talented volunteers have created such a successful, coordinated system, we find ourselves with more Goldens ready to go than foster homes to hold them for final assessment.

PROBLEM:
We are missing one ingredient to our wonderful recipe. Where to house all our waiting Goldens?

RESOLUTION:
More foster homes! Your temporary home for our waiting Goldens will provide the missing ingredient!
Help supply the missing ingredient to our recipe for success; become a foster home. Help save a 4-legged, furry life! Taste the joy of fulfilling an adoptive family’s hunger for the love of a Golden!

FOSTERING 101

1. Is it Easy?
    Easy = nothing and has no reward.
    Fostering is the single reward that fills multiple hearts at once – the Golden, the adopting family and yours!

2. Will I fall in love with my foster?
    Yes. Goldens are notorious heart stealers.

3. Will it be hard to let go of my foster?
    Yes. Concentrate and revel in the joy the new family feels and you’ll be OK.
    Besides, we have found that once a family has one of our Goldens, it’s hard to stay away from us.
    So, you’ll usually be reunited with your foster at one of our events or our annual reunion picnic.

4. Is fostering really for me?
    Imagine yourself years from now; you’re going through your family album of pictures with a friend.
    Page after page you point lovingly to each picture and tell the story with a smile and possibly a tear on your cheek.
    Will your friend understand how full your heart really is as you go through your album of fostered Golden Retrievers?

Do you have the heart to save a life then let it go to live to its fullest?
(And don't forget the patience and strong constitution to live through those few fosters that seem to hang from the chandelier 24/7 and deliver unmentionable items at the most inopportune time! You will turn them over to their new family with joy in your heart!)

Enter our FOSTER EXPERIENCE page
We look forward to adding you to our amazing team of foster families.

Here are some of the areas we cover that are in need of foster homes:
Winter Park – Oviedo – Orlando – Melbourne
Wesley Chapel – Sarasota - Tampa – St. Petersburg

 



 

Journey to Recovery
Meet some of our current Goldens with special medical needs.

Marshall Lucee Cookie

Marshall is very sick with the worst case of heartworm we have seen. It is so bad he had fluid in his abdomen and we are hoping for a good outcome.

Lucee came to us passing blood and had the largest bladder stones you'll ever see.

Cookie came to us blind, underweight and anemic due to bad cases of hook and heartworm.



See Marshall's May update.

All our Goldens pictured above needed us to not only assist them with finding a new forever home, they needed us to help them recover from medical issues. It's hard enough to be looking for the love of a new forever family but to not feel well due to medical issues just makes life seem harder!

Enter our JOURNEY TO RECOVERY pages

Please read full stories and see pictures of each special medical needs Golden.
Their lives matters. Whatever their needs, we are here to help make a difference.

Brooklyn
Please don't forget to visit our very special Brooklyn - we have a May for you to see!
When you read Brooklyn’s original story even the hardest of heartstrings will be pulled. This wonderful girl was once neglected and needed to experience human kindness and love that has been missing for so long.
** Although her recent diagnosis was lymphoma, she is doing very well in her loving foster home. **

 



 

 

 


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Goldens Rescued by GRRMF

Since 1991: 3019


Donate to GRRMF
Golden Retriever Rescue of Mid-Florida, Inc. is 100% donor supported. All donations are Tax Deductible and greatly appreciated. Click on the links below for more about donation to GRRMF.
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Contact GRRMF
Voice Message Info Line:
(407) 332-2840
General Email: info@grrmf.org
To Surrender a dog:
intake@grrmf.org
Mailing Address:
GRRMF
PO Box 1449
Goldenrod, FL 32733-1449
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It's a New Year full of activity. Be sure to keep an eye on our Events Page.

Special Woody Fund

Please help support our Woody Fund for special needs dogs.

GRRMF
SUCCESSFUL ADOPTIONS
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See all the wonderfull
GRRMF Rescues
that have found their forever homes!

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Adoption Pages

GRRMF
JOURNEY TO RECOVERY
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Please help us ...
Please read the stories on each of our Goldens currently in need of special medical attention.

If you can, please help us with a donation to any individual Golden's care or to our medical needs fund.

GRRMF and our Goldens thank you for your kind heart and generous helping hand!

  green_paw Journey to Recovery Medical Pages
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