On this Memorial Day weekend, here's a reminder of how much canine friends can mean to those who proudly serve our country.

See a heartwarming article with reunion videos at:

“Shock and awwwww: Military members' emotional reunions with their dogs”

See more homecoming videos for at:

Canines Welcoming Home their Military Owners

Happy Memorial day to our GRRMF military veterans and all veterans and military members. Don't forget to put out your flag!

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.)

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.

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.

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.