Great news! 🥳🐾🥰 Maddy just had her second negative test for blasto. If you do not remember Maddy, she gave birth to 12 puppies at our rescue. She is just two years old and is currently pending adoption.
In mid February, she was diagnosed with Blastomycosis, which was treated with anti-fungal agents. She is now off this medication. Maddy had a low number of 3, which is good and as soon as she has 3 negative tests, we will consider her in remission. She had her first negative test in April and had her second negative test in May. If we get a third 0 then the testing can be spaced out further. We feel really good about where Maddy is at now with the blasto.
Maddy LOVES attention! She is very gentle, laid back, and tries hard to be obedient. She didn’t have much, if any, training or socializing before she came to her foster home. But she is a quick learner, and is VERY treat motivated. She got along fine with foster mom’s Frenchie, (we don’t know about cats) and will share all toys except bones. She enjoys a slow paced game of fetch and will return a ball or other tossed toy to you a few times.
Maddy is completely and reliably housebroken and is now trained to ring the jingle bells hanging on the back door. She understands what the word “puppy supper” is and heads straight to her bowls and waits…or dances.
She is happily crate trained for night time and will go in as soon as you open the door. Maddy is accustomed to getting a “nightline-night treat”. She’s super easy to groom and tolerates being bathed by the hose in summer and in the tub/shower in winter. It is easy to trim paws and nails – she just rolls over and lets you do whatever needs to be done.
Maddy doesn’t have hardly any bad traits. She paws at you to get attention, which is a golden retriever thing 🙂 When she wants to be petted, she’ll lay her head in your lap or next to you – and doesn’t move away easily until she’s had her fill of pets.
Maddy responds to “go lay down” and gets into a car with ease. She walks on a leash, but pulls and will need more training here. Maddy is VERY timid about going new places and meeting new people. Helping her with socialization will greatly help in small doses.
Maddy resource guards high value bones (chews, stuff with flavor) and her food bowl (not with people, with other dogs), so Maddy should be fed separately. You as her human can take any bone away from her however.
Going to the vets can be a challenge as it is with many dogs. She is always ready to head to the door and go home. She will also “pancake” while in the room. With a lot of coaxing (“It’s OK Mattie” in a soothing voice seems to work best) she will finally go with the tech or doctor. Otherwise, she submits to procedures very well.
We are waiting on Maddy’s adoption soon. You too can become qualified to adopt a golden retriever. Please read “How to Adopt“.