Red-Dawn Golden Retrievers

Red-Dawn Golden Retrievers ‪Red-Dawn Goldens, 1 hour north of DALLAS Texas, is an AKC Kennel of Merit since 2003. Hunting and show lines.

I'm Alicia and I've been breeding, training, and showing dogs
since 1985. I've been training dogs and their people as a
full-time profession since 1996. My parents got me started
breeding and showing Golden Retrievers in Conformation and Obedience. Over the past 20+ years, my dogs and I have enjoyed participating
in agility, performance, obedience, and conformation. My dogs
have been featured in T

V commercials (Go-Go My Walkin' Pup, Ford Trucks),
television shows (David Letterman, Pet Star, Incredible Dog Challenge),
and in various magazines. Many have won National championships
and/or been ranked top ten in Agility, Obedience, Conformation,
and Performance events.

05/29/2026

Eyes just opened, walking attempted and sleeping achieved.
Pickles + Chase’s boys.

✨ Meet Lumen ✨Lumen is a beautiful 5-year-old searching for her perfect forever couch. 🛋️💛 She’s the kind of dog people ...
05/26/2026

✨ Meet Lumen ✨

Lumen is a beautiful 5-year-old searching for her perfect forever couch. 🛋️💛 She’s the kind of dog people dream about: easy, loving, and completely devoted to her humans. Her ideal home is one that will shower her with affection and let her be part of everyday life.

She is wonderfully obedient with excellent manners, calm in the house, relaxed, and happily lazy most of the time, but still enjoys a little play when the mood strikes. Lumen is incredibly agreeable and lives to please. She truly just wants to make her people happy.

She gets along beautifully with other dogs and cats, has zero behavior issues, and is amazing with children of all ages. Confident, gentle, and bomb proof, she handles life with ease and grace.

✔️ Recent rabies vaccine
✔️ Always maintained on heartworm prevention

Lumen is the total package and ready to fill someone’s home with love, companionship, and golden retriever sweetness.

Dallas Texas

We use a “magic p**p pill”AnimalBiome Gut Restore for Dogs is a f***l microbiota transplant (FMT) capsule. It contains f...
05/24/2026

We use a “magic p**p pill”

AnimalBiome Gut Restore for Dogs is a f***l microbiota transplant (FMT) capsule. It contains freeze dried stool from healthy donor dogs. It restores the gut microbiome in dogs with digestive imbalance. Unlike standard probiotics that contain only a few strains of bacteria, FMT transfers a much larger and more diverse ecosystem of beneficial microbes to help rebuild gut health more completely. FMT is NOT a probiotic and cannot be used alongside a probiotic.

What happens with this FMT pill?
Fantastic stool quality, goodbye chronic diarrhea, no gas, adios vomiting. No more inflammatory bowel disease or chronic digestive issues. A complete reboot from damage after antibiotics.

ALSO
HUGE improvement or elimination of allergies and itchy skin when paired with a fresh food no-starch diet.

The gut microbiome plays a major role in immune regulation and inflammation throughout the body. It is both human & dog’s 2nd brain. New data and science has shown we need to all be much more concerned with gut health.

If you have a dog with gut issues or itchy skin, get two things going.
1. Use the FMT pills
2. Feed a fresh food no-starch diet

In 1-4 weeks your dog will have giant improvement. Some dogs are completely well in 1 month. Some take 3 months.

For our puppies, we give this magic pill after a round of deworming. And p**f, stools are great again.

Last.
You MUST get the pill down your dog’s throat without any chewing. No, you may not open it and put it on food. The capsule must make it to the intestines inside the protective outer layer of the pill’s shell.

Link in the comments for the “magic p**p pill”.

Golden Retrievers can be born a very light shade of Golden color. And as they age they develop body color to match thei...
05/22/2026

Golden Retrievers can be born a very light shade of Golden color. And as they age they develop body color to match their puppy ear color, or even darker. Both the parents of this puppy are dark golden color. This puppy has dark ear color, meaning she too will be a dark golden shade when she grows up.

05/21/2026

Only 3 weeks of training and Bauer is heeling great.

05/21/2026

We train our dogs every day. Here two baby girls sit polite while I feed them dinner off a spoon.

When does a puppy gain immunity from a vaccine? Quote from the WSAVA white paper on puppies and vaccines. Page 7“FIG 1. ...
05/16/2026

When does a puppy gain immunity from a vaccine?

Quote from the WSAVA white paper on puppies and vaccines. Page 7

“FIG 1. How maternally derived antibody (MDA) interferes with a veterinarian’s ability to immunise puppies or kittens through early vaccination.

This graph shows a puppy’s serum antibody (Ab) concentration or “titre” on the vertical axis and age in weeks on the horizontal axis. The antibody shown happens to be against canine parvovirus, but the same principles apply in both puppies and kittens to a variety of pathogenic agents.

Shortly after birth, this puppy acquired a substantial amount of anti-­ parvoviral antibody from its mother, via colostrum. This is the so-­ called “maternally
derived antibody” or MDA (the red line). MDA declines exponentially with a half-­ life of approximately 9 to 10 days.

The syringe icons represent
repeated vaccinations, the first of which was given at 6 weeks of age. ❗️This first vaccination did not immunise the puppy because of interfering MDA, which neutralised the vaccine. ❗️

The same is true of the next two vaccinations. ❗️At 8 weeks of age, this puppy became susceptible to parvoviral
enteritis, because its MDA concentration fell below the level required to protect from a moderate challenge with canine parvovirus. ❗️Yet it could not be immunised at that age, because the level of MDA was still sufficient to interfere with the vaccine and to prevent active immunisation.❗️

💚 By approximately 13.5 weeks of age, the level of MDA in this puppy fell low enough to permit immunisation.

At 16 weeks of age, the puppy was revaccinated and promptly made its own active immune response (the blue curved line).

The pink-­ shaded rectangle between dotted lines represents the “window (or period) of susceptibility” for this puppy, during which it was susceptible to parvoviral disease. It is not recommended to routinely measure MDA in very young puppies. Some puppies might receive more or much less than did this puppy. So this is why repeated vaccinations are
given every 2 to 4 weeks, to narrow the “window of susceptibility” for puppies and kittens as much as practicable. “

** Link to white paper in comments

05/16/2026

Pretty girls. We love a chunky head.

This picture of Lou-Lou is a common result on Nomograph titers test. The laboratory suggests the first vaccine of Lou-L...
05/15/2026

This picture of Lou-Lou is a common result on Nomograph titers test. The laboratory suggests the first vaccine of Lou-Lou’s puppies start at 8 weeks and follow up with more vaccines until 18 weeks of age.

Why?
❤️ Maternally derived antibody (MDA) interference happens when antibodies passed from the mother block a puppy’s vaccine from working properly. This is a major cause of vaccine failure in young puppies. ❤️

Knowing that a litter needs an earlier than 8 weeks vaccine is quite helpful to know. But, it is far more rare to received those results. Since most intentionally bred mother dogs are well vaccinated and usually healthy prior to having puppies, it results in most mother dogs passing on a moderate to strong immunity to their puppies.

Science gives us the ability to know a dog’s immunity to viruses by titers testing. As breeders, our highest risk of contagious viruses that we want to avoid in our puppies are Parvo & Distemper.

Doing the Nomograph titers test on a mother dog while pregnant helps breeders know when it is best to vaccinate a litter. The majority of the mothers tested result in puppies needing their first vaccine between 8-12 weeks of age.

💚Why the range of 8-12 weeks of age for a first or second vaccine?
Science can only predict a window of when the mother’s immunity will wane down enough so the puppy’s own immunity can take over. While the mother’s immunity in the puppy is strong, it blocks the vaccine from working in the puppy.

💚Results from Lou-Lou’s test:
Some of Lou’s puppies may be able to gain immunity from the 8 week old vaccine. Many of the puppies can gain immunity from the 12 week old vaccine for Distemper.
❗️BUT ❗️the test also stated to continue parvo vaccines to 4.5 months of age. In this test it shows many of Lou-Lou’s puppies will have a mother given immunity to parvo for a long time.

💚 Science has come a long way but not far enough. We cannot use science to know an exact day when a puppy is ready for a vaccine. But we can use it to know what window the litter *should* be able to accept the vaccine.

❗️Until a puppy receives a vaccine at the end of the suggested window, we must assume the puppy is not yet fully immune from any earlier vaccine.

Why?
❗️The passive parvo/distemper immunity in a puppy, from mother, BLOCKS the vaccine from working. ❗️

** consult with your veterinarian for what vaccine schedule is right for your puppy.

05/15/2026

At 7 weeks old, a puppy with only one parvo vaccine is still considered significantly vulnerable to parvo.

Studies on first-shot protection at 7-10 weeks vary, but estimates are roughly:
• about 50% protected
• meaning approximately 50% may still be susceptible if exposed to parvo.

The reason to not trust an early age vaccine is mainly the maternal antibodies from the mother interfering with the vaccine.

At 7 weeks:
• many puppies still have strong maternal antibodies that block the vaccine from taking effect.
• some puppies have lost maternal protection but haven’t built the ability to gain full vaccine immunity yet.

That creates the classic “window of susceptibility” veterinarians worry about.

A few important practical points:
• One vaccine at 6–8 weeks is not considered protective in 50% of puppies
• Protection improves substantially after boosters every 2–4 weeks due to the mothers immunity waning with time
• Most puppies are not considered reliably protected until the vaccine is given at 14–18 weeks

Exposure level matters a lot too:
• In a clean low risk home, a single vaccinated 7 week old puppy may never encounter enough virus to get sick.
• In high-risk settings like pet stores, shelters, parks, heavy dog traffic, contaminated yards even vaccinated puppies are at a high risk to develop parvo.

Parvo is extremely contagious and can survive in the environment for months to years. Puppies under about 12–16 weeks are the highest-risk age group.

Most veterinarians and data suggest starting the first vaccine about 8 weeks of age. But, owners should be incredibly cautious until the puppy receives a vaccine at the 4 month of age mark.

Consult with your veterinarian on the best vaccine schedule for your puppy.

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