I am going to be one year old pretty soon! My first family let me come to AGA because my hips are probably going to need fixing when I get a little older and they didn’t have enough dollars to pay for that. I stayed at a foster home for a while which was fun because there were three big boy dogs there and they were such good company! They had a pool too which my foster mom kept trying to get me to swim in but I couldn’t quite make it off the steps. I never learned about swimming before. I tried to get her to show me how but she said it was too cold. So how come it was too cold for her but not too cold for me? I guess the difference was that I am a dog and she is probably a Princess and doesn’t want to get her coat wet. I suppose that is the answer. Anyway my real home was just down the street and now I have a mom and a dad and a brother and sister that are twins in high school, two more college brothers who I haven’t met yet and an AGA golden brother named Dutch! Mom will stay home with me and my dog brother and that’s exactly what a youngster like me needs in order to learn all the right manners. And oh, yes! I finally got in my family’s pool (they showed me how) and boy is it ever fun! I’m going to try and talk my Princess foster into it too when she visits- she doesn’t know what she is missing! Love you all- LOLO (aka Ellie and now Sadie English Cream retriever, Lolo