Cali's 2nd Birthday Celebration at the Cabin | Man's Best Friend

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Cali turned two on December 20th and we celebrated the occasion at the cabin. Our Golden Retriever is the star of the channel and her many fans have been sending her gifts, including toys, clothing and dog treats. Includes video footage and photographs of her growing up, from the day we picked her up at 7 weeks old, exploring the wilderness, looking for property for the cabin, canoeing, swimming and more.

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hi everybody sean james here welcome back to the cabin Kelly is munching on a bone here because she's getting spoiled it's her second birthday today and not only are we spending the day doing all the things that she likes to do like running through the woods retrieving getting special treats like this bone and some other things he also got gifts not only from my family but also from some of you guys the viewers that have sent some stuff along for her which is very kind of you so about two and a half years ago my wife and I decided after going about three three and a half years without a dog since my my black lab gunner passed away in November 2014 or 13 2013 we decided that we were at that time that we were probably done with dogs for awhile I've had retrievers my entire life

when I was in my teens I had a dog or a yellow lab mix with German Shepherd also yo lab that was the name was Shep and had him till I was in my early 20s and then when I moved up to the first cabin that I built to the property I bought a seven-month old golden retriever at the time winded up staying with us for nine years and his name was Toby and he was a great dog to have out in the in the wilderness with me back then and doing all kinds of outdoor stuff then we got another black lab first black lab my wife and I got when we just got married to be the companion for Toby was a black lab mate named hunter unfortunately she developed hip dysplasia and we had to have put her down at 7 months old it's really her difficult thing to do soon after that we got a another dog a dog that I had high hopes to turn into a real show dog for for hunting retriever trials have really well bred beautiful dog really strong and and good retriever very trainable and he ended up developing epilepsy by the time he was I think a year and half old so he got to the point where couldn't even be managed with medication so we had to put him down

so when we got gunner soon after that it was a bit of a I guess it was a difficult decision because we had had so much heartbreak with with dogs recently before that and we bought one anyway and he ended up being a fantastic dog and he ended up living for 14 years so great great years spent with that dog and we thought you know he was so good that it was going to be hard to replace so we made the decision then to bring another dog into the family so she's become such a great family member and we've all really embraced her and she's we've make a lot of accommodation specifically for her and she's very very well loved and taken care of so she's been a good thing for the family and this place here is just couldn't I couldn't think of a better life for a dog like her and she fits in just perfectly with this lifestyle so thank you for everybody all the love you have sent to Cali over the last couple years and and I hope you're gonna stick around and watch what else she does over the next many years [Applause]

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thank you thank you thank you go no okay hey don't pull don't pull thank you good girl good did you get that rope for me nope nope no thank you [Music]

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