Golden Beginnings Tree of Hope

On behalf of our playful goofball, Bandit, formerly known as Snoop, and in loving memory of Max, who left us too soon.

We are so grateful to Golden Beginnings for our precious girls Katie and Sadie. They make us smile every day.

We love all the Goldens! Thank you GBGRR!

In loving memory of GBGRR alums Griffin & Addie who both crossed the rainbow bridge in 2024. They were our introduction to rescue and GBGRR and took us on the most amazing journey of love beyond words. Thank you to all the volunteers who work tiredlessly to place these angels in their furever homes. Our hearts are both empty with their passing but yet so full of moments and memories that will remain with us forever. Really missing them this Christmas season.

Goldens are angels without wings and they brighten everything and everyone they encounter! Nothing is better than golden love!

In loving memory of Prissy, Penny & Ryder who we miss so much xx

Thank you for all that you do for these pups! We are so thankful for our Tucker boy! Happy New Year!

In Loving Memory of Finley!

THANK YOU to ALL the PAST & the PRESENT that have helped our GOLDENS In the Houston areas!

Thanks to Golden Beginnings, we adopted Savannah who brings us fun and happiness everyday! Thank you to the volunteers and fosters!

7 years ago GBGRR introduced us to our Lizzie. She was a puppy founf living on the street with her sister. She had mange, urine infection and other issues. GBGRR nursed her back to health. She has been my little girl since. I sang to every night. Unfortunately several weeks ago we discovered lymphoma. It progressed quickly and 3 weeks she passed. She was a special girl I will always remember. This donation is in her honor.

For my beautiful Lola

Jessie, Biscuit and I would like to thank you for all you do! The McCormack’s

To all the wonderful volunteers for all that you do. In honor of our newest golden rescue Molly. She brings so much joy to our lives.

In honor of our current rescue Paddington (GBGRR 2017) and in memory of our first rescue Higgins (GBGRR 2005)

Grateful for Golden Beginnings for bringing sweet Benji into our lives this year!

From Remy and Rhett and Angels Maggie and Annabelle

In honor of Cheryl and Doug Yetz, Candy, Skye, and Honey and all the volunteers at GBGRR!

In memory of our GBGRR alum, Sassafras as well as our beloved rescues, Sweet Tea and Vegas, who are together with her over the Rainbow Bridge. We love and miss you always.♥️🌈🐾

In Memory of Mardi, our 4th GBGRR pup, and his buddies Cinnamon, Moondoggy, Rusty who are all waiting at the rainbow bridge. In honor of Lauri, Shari and Kelly who found our newest family member, River. She is perfect for our family! Thanks from the bottom of our hearts to all who make GBGRR the best place to find a new family member! Happy New Year!

Congratulations to all the volunteers and others who love golden retrievers and the mission of this organization. What a blessing it is to have goldens in a person’s life.

Merry Christmas and thanks to everyone at GBGRR!

From Bear in memory of his foster mom, Candyce.

I am so thrilled to be volunteering for this much needed cause and we are sooo thankful to have Zoe aka Hope from GBGRR. Thank you so much for your dedication to finding good, loving safe homes for our amazing goldens🥰

We are so thankful for Golden Beginnings! Love the Norton family, Bear and Reese

Our newest member of the family, Moose, represents all of us in giving many thanks to the amazing volunteers of GBGRR!! In loving memory of Lewis, Ginger, Hershey, and Bobby, and to McGee our Dachshund ambassador to all of our Goldens we’ve adopted over the years and our granddog, Jasmine!

Thank you, Golden Beginnings!

Thank you, Golden Beginnings, for all that you do to help and for bringing us Riley, Ziva, and Annie.

Here is to a great 2025 for golden beginnings! Thank you to the army that makes up this great organization! As the year 2024 is about to be something to look back on….wow GBGRR was very busy and could not have been done without all the volunteers!

Thank you to all that work so hard to save as many pups as possible!

Thanks to all of the volunteers that save these wonderful puppies.

For sweet Graham. You are going to be ok. Thank you to GBGRR for saving our Finch when he was surrendered, and for taking our Link off the streets when his family moved and abandoned him. Finch went through a tough year in 2023 when an opossum impaled him. We thought he would die or lose his leg but Austin AVES emergency vet saved his life. After many months of wound treatment he recovered to his playful self. We are so grateful for the work GBGRR does for Texas dogs. xoxo

Thank you GBGRR for all that you do for these special Goldens. I have been so fortunate to have adopted Cinnamon,Zoe, and Willow. Willow is with me now but I will always hold Cinnamon and Zoe in my heart.

May all Goldens be blessed with a wonderful family!

Wishing all the best to Graham!

Candy & Thor, We miss you so much!!! So glad you’re together again. You will remain in our hearts forever. Love & Licks… Sheila, Amber & Rusty

For my first best friend. Goldie.

Thank you to all the volunteers for all that you do!

Happy Holidays!

Many thanks to GBGRR for all of our wonderful dogs, both past (Liz, Alaska, and Shadow) and present (Sunny). They fill our lives and hearts with so much love and joy.

From Copper Diplock so I can also have my picture up ❤️

From Copper Diplock, a 2015 Alumni, in memory of his GB brother Graham. Thank you GB for finding us good humans ❤️

Thank you to my mom Lauri Neale and the whole Golden Beginnings team for all you guys do!!

Merry Christmas and all good wishes for a new year that includes the many joys that our Goldens bring to our lives.

A very merry Christmas to my beautiful girl April, who will be 15 in feb. She is having a few issues but i Pray for her every nice and I love her very much. Merry Christmas to all of you adopters, and workers for gbrr.

In support of all the fosters that came through our home and for the special boy who stole our hearts and became part of our family.

In celebration of Belle and in memory of all our sweet furbabies who have crossed over the Rainbow Bridge. Thank you to Golden Beginnings for all you do for these sweet babies.

We are so grateful to GBGRR and all the volunteers and donors who do so much for the welfare of Golden Retrievers (and other dogs) in need. Our family will always love and remember GBGRR alum Cam; he was the best boy who will always be remembered and cherished. We love you always.

Merry Christmas to all our fellow dog lovers! May your holiday be happy and your hearts and homes filled with the love only a dog can provide. We are forever grateful to GBGRR for our first golden baby Jingles, who watches over us from the Rainbow Bridge, and our second golden baby Sophie, who brings us immense joy on the daily.

For Graham, Bailey, and all other Goldens who will be saved by this wonderful group.

In honor of our golden girls part 2; Luna and Lucy! Our Texas girls are loving the Michigan snow! Thank you Anne, Alex and Lauri for our beautiful golden girls and for all you do!

In loving memory of our original golden girls; our first rescue Lexi (fka Poppy, right) and her big sister Liddy. We are forever grateful for Jen, Anne and everyone at GBGRR!

Thank you GBGRR for all you do and for Jackson. Jackson has become such a wonderful family and therapy dog. This is his school picture where he has elementary school children read to him. He loves giving back to the community and GBGRR made It possible.

Love The Poirriers and our precious goldies, Finn, Hazel and our beloved GBGRR alum Oakley, who crossed the rainbow bridge in July 2023. Thank you GBGRR for all you do to give these angels the love and homes they deserve.

Thanks Meg for all your hard work!

Happy Holidays to the Golden Beginnings family!!

Thanks for helping all of the GBGRR dogs.

Thank you to all our volunteers, adopters and supporters for giving our past, present and future Goldens their Golden Beginning! We could not save Goldens without your help and generosity!

Merry Christmas to all the loyal GBGRR volunteers and adopters!

Thank you, GBGRR, for allowing us to have Molly & Perry for as long as we did, and for Finn, who continues to light up our lives. Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas to all the wonderful members of the Golden Beginnings community. May you have a blessed holiday celebration. Lisa, Pat, Finley and Joey Beaton

Merry Christmas from Molly and Daisy! Thank you to Golden Beginnings volunteers for your tireless work and commitment to animal rescue – you make such a difference in the lives of all of these beautiful animals! We give this gift in loving memory of our Golden’s who have crossed the rainbow bridge, Ellie Mae and Lilly. You will always live in our hearts.

Merry Christmas, GBGRR!  Thank you for everything you do for these precious Goldens. Bella got her new beginning in April of 2014, and Zachery go this Golden Beginning in February of 2021. We love them so much!

Our deepest gratitude to Golden Beginnings for our first Golden, Max, who we lost in 2019 to cancer, and now, Boone Galileo. The depth of care and devotion that’s given to each dog that has its Golden Beginning is the foundation of this exceptional rescue group. You are the GOLD of Rescue! Merry Christmas to all! Boone Galileo’s family ❤️

Merry Christmas Graham! Hope Santa brings you all the tennis balls! Love Ruby

Sending a big hug and kiss to these pups. We are so lucky to have dogs and these dogs deserve a great life.

Thank you to all of the volunteers who make GBGRR so incredible. Special thanks to Lauri Neale for matching us with Cole 12 years ago. We love our trio of GBGRR goldens!

In honor of Laurie, Alex, Meg and Cheryl. Love, Ridge

In memory of our Chase. Forever in our hearts. Thank you and Happy Holidays to GBGRR!

In gratitude to the Lafferty’s for fostering so many puppies but especially Misty’s puppies in 2022.

Merry Christmas from Frankie and Riley

In memory of Peyton, 2011-November 6, 2024. An exceptional dog and a TRUE BLESSING!

Something special about these beautiful dogs.

Merry Christmas to all from Brenda and Molly Taake! Thanks to GBGRR for rescuing and letting me adopt Molly in 2019 and Sadie Kay in 2009.

Thank you for finding us our forever home. Happy Holidays

In memory of these special goldens… Chelsea, Cody, Jenny, Scout and Linus, Lucy, Logan, Murphy, Cody, Cooper and to all the GB volunteers.

In Memory of my Priscilla

In loving memory of Zach Lester Junker

In loving memory of our beautiful sweetheart Sunshine. My best friend and constant companion. I will always love you.

Merry Christmas from the Porters, in memory of our lost goldens Brandy and Anabelle.

May your season be filled with wagging tails, cozy cuddles, and joyful barks. Here’s wishing you and your furry friends a howling good holiday and a paws-itively amazing New Year! 🐾

Merry Christmas from Sammy, our sweet boy we adopted last year!

We love GBGRR! Merry Christmas!

We adopted our sweet golden from Golden Beginnings in 2002. She brought our family so much joy & happiness. I’ll always have a spot in my heart for this rescue group. In Mollie’s honor, we would love to donate to GBGRR whenever we can. Thank you! Erin Erdeljac

In memory of Simba rescued as a puppy by GBGRR in 2008. Foster big sister to many GBGRR intakes and local animal shelter kittens, who loved to swim in the pool, chase tennis balls and snuggle on the couch with her humane and feline family members. Much loved and greatly missed, October 2008-May 2024.

Thanks to GBGRR for all of the pups they haves saved over the years. Love, 2 of your alum, Grace Kaylie and Stella and in memory or Harley, our honorary Golden.

To help the most wonderful angels.

In honor or CeCe! Thank you for providing her much needed medical care and a safe home when she came out of the shelter. She is a wonderful companion. We love her!❤️ Merry Christmas to all creatures great and small. 🎄

Thank you for all you do.

Great job, we appreciate your hard work to help rescue Goldens.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of our Golden Beginnings family. Thank you to adopters and volunteers for supporting GB!

Our beloved Trooper crossed the Rainbow Bridge on May 8. He was gun shy so couldn’t hunt. He didn’t like deep water, but loved to run in the Galveston surf. He didn’t like to chase balls because they’d always be thrown away again. He was no guard dog because strangers were just another opportunity to make a new friend. Born to love and be loved; he did it very well. We miss him enormously, yet we take solace knowing that he’s playing with his pals Buddy and Demo. He will always be loved.

May all your “Beginnings” be Golden! Happy Holidays to all!

Merry Christmas to all!

Thank you so much for Poppy. Poppy is an amazing friend & companion.

Wishing everyone Joy & Peace, this holiday season! Appreciate the work you all do, Sharon & Chip

Happiest Holidays, GBGRR!! With gratefulness, Lego Harvey Director of homeland security

We have had 14 wonderful years with Jake and will be forever grateful to GBGRR! Thank you for all the work you do!

In memory of our three beloved Goldens now awaiting us at Rainbow Bridge: Punkin, Comet (GBGRR alum) and Truman. Just a short time on earth, but forever in our hearts.

Blessings for a golden Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🦮🦮

3rd year with Carter, what a joy its been!

In memory of our three Golden children.

Thank you for Jenny & Cody. And in memory of Mattie & Riley.

In memory of my sweet and handsome boy Joey.

In loving memory of Candyce Davis, a cherished and devoted foster for GBGRR. Candyce’s unwavering commitment to rescuing and rehabilitating over 100 dogs, including my Finn, speaks to her incredible heart and compassion. She generously shared not only her time and love, but also her personal resources, ensuring that each dog received the care and attention they deserved. Her kindness and selflessness have left an indelible mark on all of us. Her legacy of love and care will live on forever.

Merry Christmas from all our fur babes to yours. Thank you for all you do

Thanks to Golden Beginnings for our sweet Jesse!

Thank you to the volunteers for all your hard work. We are celebrating our 3rd Christmas with our beautiful girl Bailey. Merry Christmas to all our family at GBGRR and all the fur babies.

In honor of my husband David who passed away this year. He was the one who convinced me to adopt our first golden that we named Gracie. After her came Abbey and now it is me with our 3rd golden Piper who has been a blessing.

Merry Christmas to all of our friends with GBGRR!

Thank you to Lauri Neal for all the amazing work she does for GB and for fostering these 3 very special girls.

In Memory of our sweet Shadow

May the blessings of Jesus’s birth bring renewed hope to the world and our nation. God Bless all living things and blessings to all who are above with the Lord, the furry ones too ❤️😇🐶🎄🙏🏻

Golden Beginnings are so good to their fur babies preparing them for their forever homes!! We were one of the lucky couples chosen. Unfortunately he passed at 7yrs old. Looking for our next golden to love! 🐾❤️

Merry Christmas! This is our first Christmas with our new boy Palmer.

In Memory of our sweet Angel.

Greetings from Joan and Fenn.

In memory of our sweet Teddy and the unwavering love he brought our family! We love our Goldens and appreciate all the work your organization does for this amazing breed! Happy Holidays to you and all the fur babies! The Follis Family

This holiday season, Ava and Jake are remembering Finlay, Goose, Finley, and Remy. They’re also sending kisses to GBGRR’s wonderful volunteers!

In memory of our precious Ben who joined Gus and Woody at the Rainbow Bridge this year. Thank you GB for the love of these beautiful boys. We miss them so much.

Merry Christmas from Hank Koby

Merry Christmas!! We are thankful to Golden Beginnings every day for this beautiful, sweet and loving boy. He brings our family so much joy, he is everyone’s spoiled little brother.

Merry Christmas from the Cone Family. We love our sweet Murphy. Thanks Golden Beginnings!

For the love of Tennis Balls

In memory of Winnie & Honey .

In remembrance of our first Golden

We pray everyone has a blessed holiday!

In memory of Archie

In honor of our Golden Beginnings girl, Sierra, who we have loved for 11 years and counting! ❤️🐶

In memory of our sweet Kevin. We miss you every day.

Thankful to be apart of such an amazing foster group. We will continue to do everything we can to support a rescue that supports such a special breed who continues to give back to our family time after time. Donated in memory of our 2024 fosters: Jessie, Snoop and Snowball. Pictured: Jessie & the Golden Boys (@adventuresofloganandlincoln)

Keep up the great work! Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from Mylo and Shiner two previous Golden Beginnings rescues and Dixie their older sister.

In honor of Sophie.

In memory of our loving boy, JJ !! You will always be in our hearts❣️

God bless all the volunteers that make up such a wonderful organization, and for all the special goldens that we are blessed to care for.

God bless all the GBGRR volunteers! Our Abbie is the best!

In honor of all those beautiful Goldens that came before and those to come. Love from Trish and Livy

I love GBGRR and all the many admins, volunteers, supporters, fosters, adopters, and dogs!! I would really love to foster in 2025! Candy and Lily Grace Beneke

Sending all the Goldens and non-Goldens peace, love, and joy this holiday season! Thank you to GBGRR for all that you do for these precious souls!