Here are some recommendations and favorites from our experience:
Kokopelli Veterinary Center
1420 Fulton Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95825; (916) 683-4029
Kokopelli is our vet which we use for all our veterinary needs, and we cannot say enough good things about them. They provide veterinary wellness care, surgery, dentistry, diagnostic imaging, reproduction and fertility services, and animal chiropractic.
KENZO
Ch. CaliGold’s California Bear “Kenzo”
Kenzo, a retired CaliGold Champion Golden Retriever, is always going on adventures. Please check him out at Golden Woofs.
For those you who have Netflix this is a great documentary:
Favorite Toy
Planet Dog Orbed-Tuff Football Treat-Dispensing Dog Chew Toy
Our Goldens LOVE this football. It is great for playing fetch on land or in water. We play fetch in our pool with as many as 4 footballs at a time to keep all dogs active. In addition, this ball is indestructible. Our dogs have yet to destroy one except having the white laces peel off.
Feeding time
What we feed our dogs.
Puppies: When we ween our puppies from nursing from momma, we feed them Purina ProPlan Puppy, and recommend that our owners feed them the same when they first take them home.
Adult Dogs: At one year old, we transition our dogs to a mixture of Purina ProPlan Performance and Sensitive Skin & Stomach. Performance is for active dogs, and Sensitive which has salmon as the protein is good for their coat.
There are other good dogfoods available like Royal Canin, and it is important what you feed your dog as their food will effect their health and well-being. The link below on a study on dogs developing diet-related dilated cardiomyopathy (heart condition) or DCM which Golden Retrievers are especially vulnerable. We are proud to have 2 of our dogs as part of the control group of this study.
How we feed our dogs.
We feed our dogs twice a day. For our fast eaters, we use slow feeders. We also use “stands” to elevate their bowls. Please note that the stands that hold bowls as shown in the left photo do not hold slow-feeder bowls, and metal stands as shown in the right photo will allow some slow-feeders to slip through the top cross members. You can see that I have remedied this issue with duct tape. Recently, I started using elevated large water bowls as stands as shown in the center photo. The slow-feeders fit in the bowl including the 2-cup size shown in the right photo. This solution works great because when dogs eat from the slow-feeders they tend to be messy and this captures the mess.
