Kaia Golden Flat Coat

Kaia is amazing. She is gentle, heels without a leash, takes food gently from your hand, and loves to snuggle. She was easy to train. We love how her ears and tail have long, wavy hair; we call her our Farrah Fawcett girl. It is hard to keep her out of the pool or the ocean. She often just goes in the pool and swims around, often with 2 bones in her mouth. FYI, both Kaia's Sire, Zathras, and Dame, Virga, were our pets and acquired from the same breeder in May of 2016. They both had different dams and sires. Zathras was registered as an AKC-bred dog. Virga was registered as a pet dog. The breeder did this to control her breeding line and to prevent competition. Our contract with her stated she could take either or both pets if we bred them. At that time, we lived in the Chicago area. We didn't plan on breeding them, but on December 23, 2019, they both got out. Nature took its course; Virga had ten healthy puppies. We were afraid to tell the breeder. We moved to Hawaii, not because of the puppies. Once here and having such wonderful puppies, we decided to have another litter. We also did so because we wanted a third FCR in our home. This time, Virga had nine puppies. All but one of those puppies are here on the islands. One of those puppies is Kaia. We contacted the breeder to ask if she would revise Virga's AKC registration to Breed Dog. She told us she would have after the first litter because accidents happened, but not after we did it a second time on purpose. We want future puppy owners to be aware of the situation. Virga is still with us and true to the Flat Coat Retriever motto: a "Peter Pan Dog"; they never grow up. Virga, at 10, is as active and puppy-like in all the good ways as ever.