We are most proud of the "continuing" relationship with the animals
we have bred, raised, and loved and the good folks who adopted them. By emails, letters, telephone calls, and return visits
to our Virginia farm the extended "family" share their Doodle experiences, both the many joys and the occasional
setbacks.
We reproduce here a sample of the more recent incoming emails to Gleneden. We hope you find the messages of
interest; perhaps they will give you a feel for why folks all over America and beyond deeply love their Gleneden Doodles.
(11/23/11)
Dear Judy
I just wanted to write and tell you that one
of the things I am most thankful for this Thanksgiving is my sweet little puppy from Gleneden. She is so good natured, bouncy
and FUN and is everything I could ever imagine wanting in a puppy. I absolutely adore her and appreciate the wisdom you imparted
to me for our early days together and all the good background she had before coming to me. I wish a lovely Thanksgining to
you and your family and all the cute new puppies awaiting a treasured spot somewhere!
Best Wishes,
Martha Simpson
Windsor, CT
(8/2/11)
Samson on our boat with our kids: Will (11), Gray (9) and Bailey
(6). They adore him!!! and he them!
He seems to enjoy boating and does well! His only issue is his
need to save us all when we go in the water!! He jumps in after us and drags us ashore by the hand!!
Deborah Thomas Cohasset, MA
(1/2/12)
Hi Judy and Bill,
We hope you and your family had a Merry Christmas and have a happy and healthy
2012.
We are all madly in love with Sammy. He truly is a very special animal and loves everyone. No prozac need for
this one!...
Best regards, Barbara Arkin Amagansett, NY
(10/18/11)
Judy,
Been a while since we wrote....have sent several
friends your way over the last couple of years and wanted to give you some visual updates of Tess. She is doing great
and has had a wonderful summer.
Wes Fleming &
Barbara Menendez Aspen, Colorado
(3/19/11)
J
udy,
We promised to email you the name of our puppy, and can't believe 4 months has
already flown by! We named her "Piper" and she is the sweetest, smartest, BEST DOG we have ever had!...
Potty training was much easier than we had anticipated. We taught her to ring a bell when she needs to go out, and
she has a special "potty" area to use before she gets to play in the yard. She follows the boys everywhere,
she'll even follow them down the slide on our playset.
Piper has been a wonderful addition to our family, we absolutely
adore her. The boys are already trying to talk me into getting another one, so I have a feeling this won't be the last
you hear from me! :)
Thanks again Judy! The Walters Family Carlen, Rand, Max, Jack & Piper
Greensboro, North Carolina
p.s. We've given your website info out to several other families looking for a Labradoodle,
they'll be contacting you soon, if they haven't already.
(7/11/11)
Hi Judy
Attached is a picture of Stella
at six months, along with her brother Stanley, whom we adopted from you more than 8 years ago!! I took this as soon
as we got home after they were groomed on Saturday – Stella loved her “day of beauty”; Stanley not so much…Thanks
again for providing us with such wonderful “children” – they bring so much happiness to us, as well as to
all those they meet!
Best regards, Mark Gorman San Francisco, CA
(5/19/11)
Hi Judy.
Here are some pictures Ella took yesterday of Max.
We hope you enjoy
them. He is a very happy puppy. He is playful and very intelligent. We started
puppy kindergarten a couple of weeks ago and he cries when we have to leave.
He really enjoys the other puppies in
the class. We love him so much and are
having such a good time with him. He is a wonderful addition to our
family.
I have other photos I would like to send you shortly. They are adorable.
I hope all is well.
Elizabeth
Reed Berwyn, PA
(2/27/11)
Dear Judy,
We bought Charlie Ruggles from
you in January 2008 and picked him up on Martin Luther King day. He has become a wonderful addition to our family and
came with us to Dubai when we moved here a year ago. We keep him fairly closely cropped so he doesn’t get too
hot. This photo is Charlie with our daughter Elizabeth before we moved to Dubai...Katherine D'Arcy Emirate of
Dubai
(8/30/11)
Hi Judy and Anya,It's been awhile. Hope all is well with you. Just
wanted to send you an updated pictured of Munch, who was adopted in July 2005. Munch is doing great. He turned
6 on May 8th. He's a loving, social dog devoted to our family. Although we have entertained getting another labradoodle
from Gleneden, we postponed it because I believe Munch really wouldn't like it at all. He likes his postion of being topdog
of the family. Whenever I leave town, Munch gets a bit depressed and confused, but as soon as his mistress returns, he returns
to his happy go lucky self.
Take care,
Terry Hirsch & Clan
Chashmonaim, Israel
(11/3/11)
Judy,
I thought you might enjoy this pic. Fenway is now 4 mos old. He is the pup of oscar and daisy. We love him so much. We cannot
imagine life without him. Thank you so much for the most perfect puppy.
All
the best, Gabrielle Carruth, Max and Aaron Mullins Arlington, VA.
(8/9/11)
Judy
Wanted to share this recent family photo Of Izzie at the outerbanks of NC
A real water
dog. Ozzie is a Gleneden Multigen Labradoodle and lover of kids and the water and me.
Thank you
Ric Cox
Greenville, North Carolina
(1/9/12)
Dear Judy, Just wanted to send you a quick update on the best dog in the world Jazmin or "Jazzy." Jazzy
is now 6 years old and has brought incredible joy into all of our lives. She is full of life yet at the same time calm
and mellow (if that makes any sense!) Company is always impressed by how pleasant and friendly she is without being
"all over you" (which we often see in dogs inferior to her!) She easily adjusts to all surroundings; car rides,
small children, the elderly, large crowds etc. She has even convinced grandma that there is a human trapped inside
her body and we have caught grandma, on more than one occasion asking Jazzy "Whose in there!?!?" She
is our constant companion and we fight over who gets to have her in the room with them. Finally, she swims in the pool
more often than anyone in the family and although we would deny it to anyone else, she's about 45% of the reason we bought
a lake house. Love, the Farrells Huntington Park, NJ,
(6/20/11)
Dear Judy
I just wanted to update you regarding
Cloudy, a 6 month old Labradoodle we got from you in January 2010. She will be 2 years old this July and she is a wonderful
girl. Still petite, but full of energy and life! You were correct, she did grow to be about 35 pounds. Whenever we are out,
I constantly have people ask me what type of dog is she, and they comment on how beautiful she is.
Cloudy comes with
us everywhere. Please find this picture of her on our vacation on the Outerbanks this past May. In fact, I saw another Labradoodle
on the beach, and it was a GlenEden doodle too.
She is my true companion and buddy. Thank you
for such a wonderful dog!!!
Ellen Sposa-Morin Moyock, NC
(7/1/11)
Judy,
Here is a picture of our wonderful Dutch who we got from you almost four years ago.
He was from a "litter" of two, so stayed in your daugthers home while he was a wee puppy!
He now has
a new sister (1 1/2) and brother (4 months) and is so sweet to them which, of course, endears him to me all the more!
Anyway,
we just love him to pieces and thought we'd share a photo to let you know he is doing well!
Thanks,
Pam Micciche
Washington, DC
(8/7/11)
Hi,
Sorry I haven't given you an update
on the best puppy ever (Ruby)! She was top of her class in puppy school and is just sooooo smart. When she was 4 months old
we took her on a road trip to California and everybody fell in love with her (gone a month). The groomer said she was the
best first time puppy she ever groomed. I've posted update pictures on Face book or I could send you some. She swims with
me in the big pool and pushes treat around the bottom of her baby pool underwater. Thank you for breeding such great puppies.
Donna Schoeny Charlottesville, VA
(8/20/11)
Hi Judy,
It has been exactly a year since we picked up Taffy from you, and I just wanted to say
thank you for how wonderful she is and how much she adds joy to our lives. As first time dog owners we were no doubt
clumsy in providing for her and teaching her what she needed to know, but her temperament and intelligence are remarkable
and once she figures out what we want she will always do it. She sleeps in my 10 year old daughter's room and goes walking
or running with me most mornings and gets to go hiking in the Smokies most weekend days. My husband who was not sure
about dog ownership when we brought her home is now her most enthusiastic fan and playmate. We REALLY appreciate her,
and thank you again. Beth Dixon Sylva, North Carolina
(8/25/11)
Hi Judy,
I just wanted to let you know that Orange boy (now named Cody) is doing great...He
is a great puppy and we love him so much. When ever we show him to new people they tell us he looks like a stuffed animal.
We are still working on housebreaking, but he is getting the hang of it. Crate training is also going well. We just started
to take him to puppy training class. So far he loves it. Did you find a family for Cody's brother yet? Attached are some pictures
I thought you would enjoy. Thanks again for all your help. We could not imagine a better puppy.
Best regards, Jennifer
Layton Tinton Falls, New Jersey
(9/10/11)
Hi Judy-
Congratulations
on this milestone (Golden Anniverary). Have safe & fun travels. And remember how much joy you’ve brought
to us and so many families with your 4-legged ‘babies’.
Laurel & Tom Olsen & Dallas (turning 8 this
Dec) Vienna, Virginia
(9/24/11)
Daphne passed here certification tests earlier today on the eve of her third birthday. I want to
thank all of your for your significant contribution to this accomplishment:
* Judy for providing us
with a beautiful, healthy and happy puppy;
* Mary, Gail and Linda for Daphne's early foundational
training (she wasn't the most brilliant of pupils);
* Anne and Susie for finishing school; and
*
Debbie and particularly Marcella for her private lessons, especially the polite and cordial greeting of other dogs.
I'm
enclosing Daphne's picture for Judy, who hasn't seen her since we drove away from Gleneden Thanksgiving weekend three years
ago. And I should add, Judy, that by coincidence I met a couple earlier today before Daphne's test who have an almost-nine-year-old
Goldendoodle from Foxcroft and an most-eight-year-old Goldendoodle from Gleneden. And they're thinking about another
doodle . . . .
Thanks again for everything.
Darrell DeMoss Haverford, PA
(10/11/11)
Dear Judy,
It is hard to believe that almost 8 years ago a little black Labradoodle
(who has come to be known as "Soot") was born on October 28th, 2003 in Berryville ,VA at Gleneden.
We were lucky enough to "take him home" to Ct the day after New Year's! Without question, Soot is the
most amazing guy ever and I can't even put into words how much he is loved and how much he has touched the hearts and lives
of so many! I've enclosed a few pics for you to see him, I think you'll agree he is quite handsome!
...With
much gratitude, Hugh Panaro Connecticut
