It breaks my heart to tell you that I had to say goodbye to Kayla yesterday. She was picked up as a stray by the animal control at Brazoria County in mid of 2008 and kept at their holding facility that was located in prison ground. As such, the public was not allowed to just… Read more

I adopted Jax from Golden Beginnings in 2005.  I never changed his name cause it fit him so well.  We called him Jaxie too. Very sadly he passed away a few weeks ago.  He had a tumor & was having seizures. I just want to let y’all know that he was the best dog I’ve… Read more

His story began in an Arkansas puppy mill. In 2004, Golden Beginnings was one of a number of Golden Retriever rescue groups throughout multiple states to take in the scared, neglected animals from this mill. We were matched with “Redford” because we were seeking a companion dog for our female Golden. We stipulated that this… Read more

We lost our sweet Tressel, originally named Ty, on June 26, 2017. He was one of Macy’s pups born February 2,2008. I applied for one of her puppies but I assured my husband that there was no way we would get one. Then lo and behold we got one! He gave us so much joy in… Read more

12 years ago, my husband and I were engaged to be married and decided we really needed another dog to go with my 5 year old beagle mix, Layla. I adamantly didn’t want a puppy and he specifically wanted a Golden. After looking at several dogs through Golden Beginnings we found “Mikey”. He was an… Read more

On August 1,2017 our sweet Macy crossed over the Rainbow Bridge.  We adopted her as a puppy in July 2009 and she was such an easy puppy was quickly named PPP (practically perfect puppy). She loved running through the waves at the beach and rolling in anything stinky. She will be dearly missed by her… Read more

06 August 2017 was really a rather bad day: hemorrhaging, not feeling good, and just laying around. I stayed with Kayenta all night long. At 5am, she and I slowly walked outside like we always did mornings – but not today – normally I’d sit on the patio while we played run & fetch with… Read more

Fourteen or so years ago, we adopted a Golden Retriever from your organization. He came to us as Guthrie but we called him Gus. On 08/10/17 we had to put him down. We estimate he was at least 16 years old. Of course we miss him so much already. This note is to say Thank… Read more

Rudy came to us in February 2009. We tried other names on him but always came back to Rudy, as in Valentino. He was a lover boy all the way, even at times insisting I hold his paw while I ate supper. He was always in the way, always looking for food, and always hoping… Read more