Smok'ngold Retrievers

09/05/2026

A guy and his golden.

08/14/2026

Well, I think it’s finally time to add another puppy to our pack! 🐾❤️ We have a breeding planned for Indy later this fall… although I’m not sure she’s been informed of the plan yet! 😂 Fingers crossed everything goes well and we’ll have some exciting puppy news to share! 🐶💕

08/07/2026

Every dog can swim, right?

Not even close. Michael believed it his whole life — right up until Billy, a Staffordshire-boxer cross built like a torpedo with the buoyancy of a brick, waded into the river and refused to swim a stroke.

This week Dr. Beth Barrett gets into the stuff nobody warns you about on a summer swim day: which dogs genuinely shouldn't be swimming, the fetch-till-they-drop dog who needs YOU to call it, and two things most owners have never heard of — water intoxication and limber tail. Plus blue-green algae, backcountry first aid, and Michael's mailbag question about the beaver that tried to drown his dog. (Beavers, it turns out, are not messing around.)

WEBSITE: https://barrettvet.ca/dog-days-in-the-water/
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/37GCKD4TBom9OGfDEcNQlX?si=589bff38ab554bf2
APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dog-days-in-the-water/id1872701554?i=1000780289179

Water and dogs are pure summer magic. Just be the sensible one.

07/20/2026

Congratulations to Mitchall Brenner and Zeus - one Junior Hunt pass under their belt at the Regina Hunt tests this past weekend. Great job you two!

05/06/2026

We continue to work on finding treatments for hemangiosarcoma.

04/08/2026