Aballava Goldens

09/03/2025

Spring sprung Frankie?

07/08/2024

Think your secret is well and truly out now Frankie!

28/07/2024

If anyone that has a love for dogs and thinks that they have the time and patience to be the first step and help transition dogs coming into this charities care can help, please drop a note to the email address on the image.

28/06/2024

Mum....?
Yes Frankie!.....
May I tell you a secret Mum?
Of course you can Frankie!
Well!.... just between you and me.......... We'll keep that between us Frankie. Mum's the word!

27/06/2024

Happy 5th Birthday to these Maddies! Wouldn't want to try and recreate that photo now! Hope you're all being spoilt!
Oh! and Happy Birthday to your mum Heather and Auntie Rosie nine today.... Who'd have thought!

08/12/2023

Happy birthday to Rosie’s Winter gang. One year old today.

16/10/2023

We’ll just wait here until Mum gets back. 😀

18/09/2023

When you can’t beat em join em! 🤣🤣

24/08/2023

And the winner of this year’s dirtiest retriever competition is…. Frankie….. by a nose…. Quite literally 🤣. Think you need some extra training Douglas! 🤣🤣

23/08/2023

Frankie taking the opportunity to show her brother Douglas round the city of his birth during his stay with us😀

06/07/2023

Don’t care if you have moved my bed out of the way to decorate…. I’m not missing my mid-morning nap! 🤣

27/06/2023

Happy 8th birthday to two of our golden girls Heather and Rosie, also Heather’s Midsummer litter as they turn 4.

14/06/2023

The girls are not impressed that their staff can enter, but they cannot!

07/05/2023

Wish you’d hurry up! I’ve a whole deserted beach to explore! Oh! And that sun is annoying my eyes!

29/04/2023

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=541620384430864&id=100057487209287

This is something everyone should see. This xray is of a 2 week old puppy.

When you get your 8/10 week old puppies, please keep this image in mind. Their bones do not even touch yet. They plod around so cutely with big floppy paws and wobbly movement because their joints are entirely made up of muscle, tendons, ligaments with skin covering. Nothing is fitting tightly together or has a true socket yet.

When you run them excessively or don't restrict their exercise to stop them from overdoing it during this period you don't give them a chance to grow properly. Every big jump or excited bouncing run causes impacts between the bones. In reasonable amounts this is not problematic and is the normal wear and tear that every animal will engage in.

But when you're letting puppy jump up and down off the lounge or bed, take them for long walks/hikes, you are damaging that forming joint. When you let the puppy scramble on tile with no traction you are damaging the joint.

You only get the chance to grow them once. A well built body is something that comes from excellent breeding and a great upbringing-BOTH, not just one.

Once grown - around 12-18 months depending on their breed, you will have the rest of their life to spend playing and engaging in higher impact exercise. So keep it calm while they're still little baby puppies and give the gift that can only be given once.

20/04/2023

And so the first chapter in these guy’s lives heads to a close. Frankie you’ve done a great job with your pups. Chapter two starts tomorrow as they start leave us over the next few days for their new homes. Good luck. We look forward to hearing of your adventures and experiences in the coming years.

15/04/2023

Come on Guys... Smile means big grin, Eyes front and wide open looking at the camera please..... Which part of that is difficult to understand! ...... Right we'll try again... Take fifty seven