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Golden Awards and Brags
In the beginning, there were some very nice awards, some of which we have provided below. We may need to enter a website competition in the future.


Dogmark.net - cool dog site of the day SELECTED January 25, 2005.


ADsoft Web Development - Web Award March 12, 2003.


Ladder54.com - Gold Website Award July 20, 2002.


Busy Editor Newsletter - The Busy Educator Award. "The Land of Pure Gold is so outstanding, it has won our Award for March!"


Disability Network - Outstanding Website Award 2002. "Your website reflects your dedication and hard work. Please accept our award & our congratulations on an outstanding website."


Dogmark.net - Cool Dog Site of the Day SELECTED September 14, 2000. For Treasured Golden Bonds Storywriting Contest page, page also selected for the month of September 2000.


The Mining Company - Dogs Best of the Net Award. December 29, 1998. Voted #2 in Mining Company's TOP TEN Sites. "Talk about a labor of love! Golden Mom Rochelle Lesser has developed one of the deepest most heartfelt sites devoted to a single breed on the Internet. The Saturday Night chat hostess here at The Mining Co., Rochelle takes us down the Yellow Brick Road of Golden Retrievers, stopping along the way at the Golden Gallery and Responsibility Hill. Teaching responsibility, training, feeding and just about everything else under the Golden Sun. A true celebration of the canine spirit."


Home & Hearth - Award of Excellence December 7, 1998. "Very informative and resourceful site dedicated to Goldens. It really is impressive work."


Working Dog Web -  Cool Canine Site Award, All-Around Category December 25, 1998. "Wonderful combination of graphics, information and also imagination. Bravo!"


NIMBY - Our Golden, Ollie, was Oscar's Guest Star at his Comic Strip, NIMBY, for November 28th & 29th, 1998 (from Dale Taylor). He created an official comic strip for Ollie, making him into an honest to goodness cartoon character.


Mag Rags Sportswear - GOLD BONE Award November 27, 1998.


Dog of the Day -  Presented to our Golden, Friendship Darcy Makena NA "Darcy" November 17, 1998.      


Bamses Golden Award - November 4, 1998. "Golden pages are  the best I've ever seen!"  Page of the Week December 20.


Golden Site Award for a COOL Home Page - November 15, 1998. "I have been to your website a thousand times and love it more every time! I'm so glad there is someone like you to put up a fabulous homepage totally dedicated to goldens."


Networking Award - October 7, 1998. "Truly celebrating the human-animal bond."


In Memory of Pets - Tribute to Pets Award  October 20, 1998. "Site shows the Love and feelings in your Heart for All Loved Ones (pets)."


Dog of the Day - Presented to our Mistfield Oliver CGC "Ollie" September 6, 1998.


Child Advocacy Center - The Award for Child Advocacy June 21, 1998. "Amazing, informative, touching, and a real asset to the web."


Planet Pet - Best of the Planet Award July 4, 1998. "An enjoyable and  entertaining trip down the Golden Brick Road."


Kim's Komputer Klinic - Kool Sites Kids Only Award May 8, 1998.


Hit the Beach - The Wave of the Day Award May 10, 1998. Market-Tek - 3 Star Design Award June 1, 1998.   


Xoom - Build a Better Website Award June 17, 1998. Received prize of 12-CD set of web graphics!


The Dutchess - Friendliest WWWeb Site April 12, 1998.


Cyber-Teddy's Top 500 Website - Listed on the People's Choice WebSite 500. Also awarded CyberTeddy's Top 500 Website award April 13, 1998.


NGI WI - Cool Site Award April 9, 1998.


Golden Windmill Award - Website award April 9, 1998. "The Golden Retrievers are absolutely wonderful! Your site is creative, well-designed and easy to navigate."


"The Animals" Award of Excellence - Website award April 9, 1998. "I spent quite a long time visiting every page. Some stories are incredible! I also had my dogs take the IQ test. I knew that they were smart but I didn't know how smart. They scored 212 points. Not too shabby!"


Neilsen Graphics - Best of the Web Bronze Award '98 - Website award  April 9, 1998.


The Critical Mass Award - Website award April 8, 1998. "A very nice site, good design, clever original graphics, and your content is informative, entertaining, presented well and easy to access."


Spinal Cord Injury/Dysfunction Information Station - Wheels Across the Web Humanitarian Site Award April 7, 1998.


Zookeeper's Pets - Site of the Week Award October 8, 1997.


Tripod - Best of Pod Critters Pod award, week of  November 26, 1997.


dogmark.net - Cool Dog Site of the day SELECTED December 23, 1997. CHAMP - Champ's Cool Website Award April 1998.


The Dog Zone - Award of Excellence.


Canines.com World of Dogs & Training - Top Dog Web Award.



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