In April of 2021 my family was informed by our breeder (Twenty Valley Golden Doodles) that we were going to have first choice of Hazel’s next litter. We were so thrilled as this was our very first dog! Hazel had a healthy pregnancy, but close to the time of birth we received a bit of a surprise! Hazel was going to be giving birth to just 1 pup, a singleton! Not knowing too much about dogs, I really did not realize that this was much of an issue. After some initial research, I quickly learned that singleton pups tend to be poorly adjusted and can often be ‘nippy’ and not well socialized. Not exactly what I had envisioned for our ‘family dog’ to say the least! Turns out pups need siblings to annoy, play and compete for food! Fortunately for our pup and our family, our wonderful breeder at Twenty Valley, LeeAnn, sprang to action and reached out to Rachel, whom she knew very recently had a litter of chocolate labs. Rachel so graciously agreed to foster our singleton pup so that he would have siblings to annoy him and make him a very well-adjusted pup. Rachel often posted pictures of our singleton, aptly nicknamed ‘Chunker’ so that we could see him grow and flourish. He was an adorable blonde amongst a sea of chocolate labs! Chunker knew no different and he was well socialiazed by his siblings and was able to have a mom too! Chunker lived with Rachel’s pups for 8 weeks, and then it was time for all of them to go to there forever homes. So we brought Chunker (now Ace) home, and he quickly became an irreplaceable part of our family. I truly, truly believe, that it is because of LeeAnn’s and Rachel’s kindness and efforts, not to mention their very apparent love of their dogs, that we have a warm, loving, and playful pup. I think of how much Rachel has impacted our lives and yet we never met. My children love their puppy, and I often think that things could have turned out very differently had it not been for her. THANK YOU!!