It may be grey and dreary outside but our lives are filled with sunshine today. Our beautiful golden boy is 16 years old today. The average life span for a golden retriever is 12 years…..we are incredibly blessed to have shared our lives with this amazing boy for 16 years. He had a delicious birthday breakfast of fresh ground turkey with pumpkin and fresh berries. Then he got to lick the empty pumpkin can. We have a long standing tradition of using Timbits (Wally’s favourite treat) to celebrate the big moments. On birthdays he would get one Timbit for every year and when his puppies were born he would get one for each baby. When he started getting into double digits we had to start cutting the Timbits in half. Later today he will get his 16 Timbit halves.
We had an early birthday celebration at Patty’s acreage on Thursday. We had a lovely lunch and nice walk on a beautiful, sunny spring day. We even managed to avoid Wally rolling in the horse and cow poop which he loves to do (as you will see below in the picture from his 11th birthday celebration at Patty’s).
Wally, Boomer, Stark, Hope, Spirit and little Tilly
To commemorate the big day I put together a series of images of Wally from 12 weeks to 16 years old.
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Happy Birthday Wally! From Ebony & Sam! ð
Sam Halabi
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Happy birthday from Eivor and Pearl!😀🎈🎈🍗💜
Wow….happy happy puppy birthday yo Wally….what an amazing boy!!!!
You truly are blessed to get the chance to celebrate your Golden’s 16th b-day!
Very Happy Birthday, Wally! Many happy returns of the day!
So moving! Happy 16th birthday!
Wow – 16! That’s pawesome!! Happy belated birthday!!
We had a golden, Chloe, who lived to 14 1/2. We still miss our sweet girl. Happy belated Birthday!