You all know about our family’s love for dogs. We’ve written before about our support for Colorado State University’s Flint Animal Cancer Center—and as you can read below (Elliott and Louie’s Long Paw Scholars), we even started a funding project in memory of our golden retrievers we lost to cancer.

After losing Elliott, we welcomed a new love into our lives—Louie, another gorgeous golden retriever! When Louie was just a puppy, we enrolled him in the Morris Animal Foundation’s groundbreaking Golden Retriever Lifetime Study—a 10-year, $25-million research project based right here in Denver. This landmark study tracked 3,000 golden retrievers from puppyhood through their entire lives, in close partnership with each dog, their veterinarian, and the Foundation. The results are helping find and treat cancer in goldens (and dogs in general) while providing powerful insights into the causes of various cancers in humans too.

We’ve added a few links below so you can dive deeper into the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study and the incredible canine oncology work at Colorado State University’s Flint Animal Cancer Center. Our Louie wasn’t just a participant—he became the poster dog for the Morris Animal Foundation study. He was also chosen by Orvis, the iconic outdoor retailer, to be their national face for the study, representing Orvis’s longstanding commitment to dogs and the fight against the diseases that steal them from us too soon.

On August 27, 2021, we lost our precious Golden Retriever Louie. He fought a good fight, but he finally let us know he was tired and could no longer battle the terrible cancer he had, Hemangiosarcoma. He will be dear to our hearts forever.

We know that we are not alone in our love for our pets. We hope you will share our desire to protect and care for all dogs. Here, you will find two very important programs established to support research efforts and protect all of our four-legged friends. Enjoy. And don’t forget, we also buy and sell airplanes!

Since our sweet Louie passed, we’ve welcomed two new goldens into the family – Benny (now 4) and Leo (now 2). They keep us laughing, hiking, and on our toes. Proof that a dog’s love leaves room for more love.