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Golden Angels Airport Volunteers

Golden Rescue has rescued over 1,500 Goldens from overseas. This has been a monumental task that has involved a huge number of volunteers, including the placement team, the foster team, and those looking after our supporting vets and ongoing Golden care…not to mention our amazing international partners in Cairo and Istanbul. Perhaps the largest group, however, are those angels who...

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Golden Angels Yvonne Whalen

Yvonne is an important member of our Golden Rescue family and we are excited to name her as April’s Golden Angel. Yvonne’s pup Charlie introduced her to what a special breed Goldens are and this led her to welcoming Sadie (aka Betty Boop) #2411 to the family.  Later, she adopted her handsome Turkish boy, Frodo #3923, and is now fostering...

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Golden Angels Nicola Mitchell

Nicola has been a Golden Rescue Golden Retriever Believer for over 10 years. Her first Golden, Coco, was her inspiration to get involved, which started small with participation in events like the car rally and selling Wishbone Lottery tickets. Soon, however, Nicola wanted to do more to help her favourite breed. She thought about fostering but knew she couldn’t because...

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Golden Angels Andrew Dawes

Andrew has been a Golden Rescue foster, adopter, supporter, and sponsor for more than 20 years. After losing his first Golden at the age of seven, he was introduced to Golden Rescue and thought fostering might be the perfect way to fill the void created by his loss. Since then, we have lost count of the number of Goldens Andrew...

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Golden Angels Lynn Harding

Lynn is certainly the consummate Golden angel. Recently, she went above the call of duty in heading up a rescue team to find one of our escaped Goldens, Rocky #4472 (who is now named Kaladar). Lynn gained her experience as she had joined a Search & Rescue team in 2018 as her own Golden, Cello, was a flight risk so...

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Golden Angels Nena Stanekovic

When the world came to a halt a few years ago, Nena wanted to do something useful with the extra time she had on her hands. She has always loved Goldens and knew Golden Rescue as a terrific organization that aligned with her values. With everyone stuck at home, Nena decided to help by creating virtual trivia nights to help...

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Golden Angels Liz Thorne

When Liz lost her beloved Golden Nel, she was heartbroken and felt the best way to honour her memory was to volunteer for GR. Liz has been an integral member of the Placement Admin team for several years. She has entered innumerable adoption applications, sent out hundreds of follow-up emails, and updated our adoption spreadsheet…all to ensure the placement team...

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Golden Angels Cheryl Uhrig

Cheryl’s philosophy is ‘Winning the lottery, great. Love of a Golden, priceless’. Wow ~ what a great saying! Cheryl is a long-term volunteer with Golden Rescue. She started volunteering after she adopted Roxy #936 and many years Fennie #2202. She has done a multitude of home visits and has volunteered at many events including The Pickering Markets and St. Jacobs...

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Golden Angels Patricia Hope

When Patricia’s beloved Golden, Kyla, passed away in 2020, she started to volunteer for GR in Kyla’s memory. Patricia is a key member of the intake team, bringing countless Goldens into the arms of foster families and the great care GR will provide. She also handles the important job of transferring vet records from our GR vets to adoptive families’...

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Golden Angels Lora Chow

Lora has been a consummate volunteer and supporter since 2008. She has worked at many events such as the Canadian Pet Expo and Pickering Markets. She has fostered several Goldens including her own foster failure, Lola #2756. Lora is on the placement team and she supports the team by entering all the adoption applications into the database. She is also...

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