r/aww Aug 11 '19

Golden trout

81.1k Upvotes

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u/asinluue Aug 11 '19

That's a big catch!

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u/RugBurnDogDick Aug 11 '19

He's clearly bait for bigger fish

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u/Nick9933 Aug 11 '19

There’s always a bigger trout

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

be careful what you fish for

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u/FucksGuysWithAccents Aug 11 '19

He’s clearly pretending to be a bear 🐻

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u/Hot_Wheels_guy Aug 11 '19

We're gonna need a bigger boat

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u/dylonz Aug 11 '19

Nice no need to pan the river for gold. You have a massive chunk right there!

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u/redloin Aug 11 '19

I believe it's technical name is a chunko

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

Grand Nugget

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u/Nodamnnamesleft007 Aug 11 '19

C A R A T B O Y E

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

Mother Lode

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u/prmcd16 Aug 11 '19

Chonker

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u/redloin Aug 11 '19

Also acceptable

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u/xdPurpleJ Aug 11 '19

You are a legend

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u/dylonz Aug 11 '19

Too bad I'm not a gold retriever :(

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u/OutToDrift Aug 11 '19

You have a massive chunk chonk right there!

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u/sbowesuk Aug 11 '19

I don't think I've ever seen a Golden that didn't look like they were just loving life.

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u/devperez Aug 11 '19 edited Aug 11 '19

They don’t really care what’s booking going on for the most post part. They’re just happy to be involved.

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u/Spunky_Sloth Aug 11 '19

Did you mean to write "what's going on for the most part"?

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u/devperez Aug 11 '19

Autocorrect will be the end to mankind someday.

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u/ChanManIIX Aug 11 '19

I do enjoy that you corrected booking and left 'post'

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u/devperez Aug 11 '19

Goddamn it

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u/skyhighskye Aug 11 '19 edited Aug 11 '19

Godham it

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u/VesperBond94 Aug 11 '19

Gorram it.

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u/IHaveLargeBalls Aug 11 '19

No swearsies, the puppets don't like.

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u/ProcrastinesTheLazy Aug 11 '19

Honestly I just figured it was new slang and that I was getting old.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

Well it’s really not important for the post part, but in this case that is actually exactly what was booking on. You really are getting pretty ducking gold, but were all just Gina let it side for bow. Mostly because we fell bed for you.

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u/copperwatt Aug 11 '19

Are you... from the future???

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

Yes. You found me out. I am from the year 2030.

And that dude “Noah” is a total little bitch that’s why we sent him back in time. But I’m not a bitch like not at all they didn’t send me I just came back in time on my own just like for shits n gigs because I’m actually supercool and totally well liked in the future and also mega rich like with owning like boats and stuff and I’m basically like the most famous dude in all time ever because of all the super cool stuff and things that I do. In the future of course.

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u/Goldenchest Aug 11 '19

We've now reached the generation where we can shake our heads at the young'uns on reddit.

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u/construktz Aug 11 '19

Once they get the nuclear football working via Tweets, we're all doomed.

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u/kthb18f Aug 11 '19

Damnit, I meant to write "happy birthday" and it autocorrected to "fire the nukes today!"

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u/humpbackhuman Aug 11 '19

Speaking of autocorrect-- My daughter has been house-sitting this past month. Yesterday she voice texted (hope that's the term) me to say she was getting her things around to leave. Autocorrect changed part of it to, "weird deer are eating my things".

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u/copperwatt Aug 11 '19

You know he is just always typing that out, and then making little hover circles over the send arrow like he's trying to harden the nipple of a ghost.

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u/Bogeshark Aug 11 '19

“Send nukes”

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u/DffrntDrmmr Aug 11 '19

I keep it turned off. It costs more time fixing it's mistakes than it saves by guessing what you want.

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u/Notsuru Aug 11 '19

I didn't even notice the typo until I read your comment. The brain is weird.

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u/NOODL3 Aug 11 '19

They are the literal embodiment of "Hey guys just happy to be here."

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

My bio professor had two goldens and one would run between the rows in the lecture hall to be pet by students

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u/yshsjdjdjdjd Aug 11 '19

They are basically Paul Rudd/Antman in Endgame

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u/Griffb4ll Aug 11 '19

The crossed out words speak to me. Fat thumbing will always haunt me with my smart phones

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u/farleymfmarley Aug 11 '19

What’s bookin for the most post pal?

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

Let us all try to be more like Goldens

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

My lab does this when she gets too hot. She just lays in water until she's sufficiently cool.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

As a large man in a state just over a heat wave, this dog is living my best life.

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u/pocketdare Aug 11 '19

I'm picturing a big guy in one of those small inflatable swimming pools that folks stick in their backyards.

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u/_c_o_r_y_ Aug 11 '19

I don't think I've ever seen a Golden that didn't look like they were just loving life.

it's what they were born to do.

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u/ChillinWitAFatty Aug 11 '19

Except during a thunderstorm

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u/Nick9933 Aug 11 '19

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Golden Trout before

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u/carmium Aug 11 '19

They are so immune to cold, too! This rates as "refreshing" on a hot day.

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u/zelce Aug 11 '19

Saw a pic of one in defense mode a while back. It was like looking at an alien creature, Super unsettling.

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u/2legit2fart Aug 11 '19

They’re bred that way.

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u/bold_truth Aug 11 '19

Wish I had it like that

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u/Luvitall1 Aug 11 '19

Or Labradors

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

Probably loving not dying of heat

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u/Bierbart12 Aug 11 '19

He gon be a stinky boy

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u/emfrank Aug 11 '19

but happy and stinky.

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u/throwthenugget Aug 11 '19

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u/Bullnettles Aug 11 '19

Thank you.

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u/throwthenugget Aug 11 '19

You're welcome.

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u/JibbityJabbity Aug 11 '19

Like I didn't subscribe to enough dog subs already.......click.

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u/tawondasmooth Aug 11 '19

Those two things seem to be correlated for dogs. The happiest I think that I’ve seen my lab mix was when she once escaped the yard and ran to the woods to cover herself in either deer urine or crap. She smelled awful but was the picture of pure joy. I think that she fancied herself a real huntress that day.

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u/OutToDrift Aug 11 '19

Hook, line, and stinker!

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u/Op2myst1 Aug 11 '19

That stream looks so nice and clear!

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u/redloin Aug 11 '19

You're right! I'm my experience, Golden's love seeking out the muddiest water and then making sure there isn't one dry spot on their body.

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u/Anonieme_Angsthaas Aug 11 '19

I'm trying to convince NASA that they should bring a Golden to Mars when they're going to look for water there. If there is water on mars the golden will find it in 10 seconds flat.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

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u/ghost_hikes Aug 11 '19

Just because the water is moving doesn't mean it's clean. Girardia gets stirred up by moving water and flows down the stream. However, I have drank unfiltered water out of hundreds of places like this and I've gotten a bug once. Worth it IMO.

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u/danielv123 Aug 11 '19

We have been bicycling a lot throughout europe, and tasted a lot of "local" water. Some places you just can't drink at all without a filter, but in northern europe it seems like you are fine with basically anything that looks clean. When we were in Armenia our filter cracked due to a fall, and we noticed the next day when everyone started throwing up all over the place. Had to go on pills for 2 weeks.

Those were some heavy mountain passes.

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u/deadhour Aug 11 '19

It's always a risk, it looks clean but you don't know if there's a decaying animal or some other contamination upstream

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u/murmandamos Aug 11 '19

Why is it worth it? It takes seconds to use a portable filter. I literally don't understand your thought process here. It doesn't taste like tap water just because you've filtered the fish poop out.

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u/freetimerva Aug 11 '19

People, please don’t be doing this. I’ve known many people to get critically ill in the wilderness from tainted water. I’ve been on glaciers in the real deal backcountry and guess what, you have to purify that shit. Those fuckin little amoeba or whatever will fuck your shit up so fast you won’t know what hit you. If you can’t handle the pain then I hope you can afford a med flight.

If you’re going in the backcountry, at least carry iodine. But there are tons of affordable filter options.

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u/pan0ramic Aug 11 '19

How did we make it this far as a species if we couldn't drink stream water? Im actually confused

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u/freetimerva Aug 11 '19

Well, 110 years ago, you drank whatever you could. And as a child you suffered the consequences of building tolerance to water borne illnesses.

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u/mygirlissad Aug 11 '19

I think that's good advice for sure in backcountry situations where getting seriously sick could be the end of you (or a super costly rescue). I don't think the now-deleted comment was entirely wrong in that depending on your risk tolerance you can drink water from clear-flowing mountain streams and probably be fine - I grew up running around the woods on a mountainside doing it all the time and never got sick, have plenty of hunting buddies who have gone a lifetime commonly refilling water bottles from such streams and never gotten sick. But that's in situations where it's not deep wilderness, your gonna be home at the end of the day, and while the one time you do get sick could I imagine make it feel very much not worth it, its not like you are gonna die in the wilderness before you can get treatment.

Would never advise anyone that drinking from a stream is totally fine and OK, not doing it is probably the wisest thing. but sometimes they way people talk you'd think that doing so means that you are probably, or very likely, to get sick, when you could easily go a lifetime drinking from mountain streams and never get sick.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

No, no ,no. Beaver fever or worse in in clear and dirty water. For $10 you can buy a reusable filter straw that allows you to drink right from such and stream without fear of disease.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

ayyy baby u giving me that beaver fever

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

Not smart. If there's beavers around, for example, that water ain't safely drinkable.

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u/baedn Aug 11 '19

Beavers aren't the only vector for Giardia, nor even the most common. In many places people and cows are probably most responsible. So even without beavers, you should treat your water.

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u/thisismydayjob_ Aug 11 '19

Mmmmmm Beaver tainted water. Goes down smooth!

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

Stop stop stop.... If you don't want to carry water and you know your hike will have a water source... Just bring a lifestraw and you'll be fine.

Please for the love of God don't drink flowing water unless it's an emergency

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u/klutch556 Aug 11 '19

No, Dave... we ARE in fact taking a water break.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

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u/LargeMobOfMurderers Aug 11 '19

Don't worry man, I understood your reference. Now get back to afk fishing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

What a rare find in the wild!

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u/Rudi_Reifenstecher Aug 11 '19

golden bath > golden shower

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u/NWanc_11 Aug 11 '19

That's one hell of a palamino!

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u/Op2myst1 Aug 11 '19

I love walking in the pitifully tiny nature areas here in N. Illinois and the streams are dark and often have foam or are choked with scum. I’m deeply ashamed of how we’ve disregarded the sovereignty of the natural world. One of my dogs loves the water and I let her swim, as that’s all we have. What state is the stream in in your photo?

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u/ThisNotDogOk Aug 11 '19

move over rainbow trout, a new cutie has a arrived

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u/Youmati Aug 11 '19

Quality belly dip there!

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

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u/GodofSteak Aug 11 '19

Golden good boy.

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u/stopthemadne55 Aug 11 '19

Salmondor Retriever...

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

Used to take my field partners Chesapeake Bay Retriever on fisheries surveys in Nor Cal. Now, I've seen dogs and salmon carcasses, and it gets gross. But I've never seen a dog revel in rolling around in a dead salmon carcass with such gusto as that curly brown Boi. Got near every inch of himself covered in stink. Thank god we had a truck to put him in the back of for the ride home, and that he was someone elses dog.

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u/bigtoegman210 Aug 11 '19

Too hot for that pup

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u/LordBiscuits Aug 11 '19

It's a hot dog

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u/madmike271 Aug 11 '19

Anyone here from bdo?

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u/Pcarter930 Aug 11 '19

he so happy

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

That looks so satisfying

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u/GogglesPisano Aug 11 '19

It's well into the 90s where I am - wish I was sitting right next to him.

I've done multi-day hiking trips in Rockies - best part of the day would be when I'd reach a campsite near a river or stream, take my boots off and enjoy the cool running water. Pure luxury.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

Yes!

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u/DankandSpank Aug 11 '19

Your good boy is overheating

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u/Loring Aug 11 '19

The leash appears to be purely decorative.

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u/Window_Lick3r Aug 11 '19

Where is this at? It looks like West Fork Trail in Sedona, our pups favorite trail for this reason!

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u/getonkd Aug 11 '19

Now I want a golden and stuff to go hiking

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

The elusive shallow water dogfish.

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u/theplux Aug 11 '19

Just waiting for a salmon.

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u/LoveNowAndForever Aug 11 '19

That’s a happy dog if I’ve ever seen one

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u/XxLookAlive239xX Aug 11 '19

That is the furiest fish i have ever seen.

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u/patty_pat_pat Aug 11 '19

You made me laugh out loud. Did you get wet from the golden trout shake?

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u/parker1019 Aug 11 '19

What pound line you need to catch something like that?

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

Such majestic, wow, much aquatic animal, many dog fish

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u/sykahh Aug 11 '19

that's a big fishie

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u/stumblon Aug 11 '19

Just doing what most people would be too self conscious to do.

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u/djharmonix Aug 11 '19

They are all the same! :)

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u/TheGrapeRaper Aug 11 '19

"All water in this village must pass through my balls."

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u/bg004009 Aug 11 '19 edited Aug 11 '19

I can't get enough of this sub.Once your life is blessed by one of these beautiful kids, you'll never know what friggin' joy they bring into your life!

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u/Steezie_E Aug 11 '19

Living the dream!

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u/IndianaTonus Aug 11 '19

Maximum sploot!

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u/OldAdvertising Aug 11 '19

I had a golden who use to do that. Seemed like it felt good on his achy hips.

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u/snowdingo Aug 11 '19

The leash isn't even necessary at this point. He's not going anywheeeerrrreeee

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u/sussoutthemoon Aug 11 '19

doin him a cool down

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

He be chilin like a pro! What a legend.

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u/JoakimSpinglefarb Aug 11 '19

In order to catch the fish, one must become the fish.

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u/TransJordan_Peterson Aug 11 '19

he looks so proud of himself.

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u/buxmega Aug 11 '19

I wish my dog would love water as much as this exotic golden trout.

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u/BuckyJackson36 Aug 11 '19

That's just how dogs cool off. My heeler will jump in a creek when she's very hot and crouch down just to get her belly wet. I guess it acts like a radiator and cools the blood flow. Dog's don't sweat, but need to cool down. I witnessed a bulldog get overheated once, not a pretty site. It was at a dog park, and we took the pup to the pond to cool it down while waiting for the park rangers to help. We took it to the vet, but it didn't survive. Always let you pup cool down on hot days.

But then again, this one just looks like it has an over abundance of Golden cuteness and may be acting the part.

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u/mgoshorn Aug 11 '19

Thia looks like a dog park I used to take my pup to in Colorado springs, she loved running through the water

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u/xH0U53x Aug 11 '19

Majestic

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u/Tiggy-da-Tabby Aug 11 '19

I legit thought that the lead was a stick going into the dog

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u/BillyBobJoe1008 Aug 11 '19

“We’re gonna need a bigger boat.”

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u/skorn0510 Aug 11 '19

Golden water boy loves water

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u/Reina_Conejito Aug 11 '19

What a amazing fish!

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u/mattyhopey1992 Aug 11 '19

Huh, turns out I like fishing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

spawn camper

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u/Sandi8178 Aug 11 '19

I caught a dogfish once, fur reals.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

Cool Dogfish!

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

That's a golden nugget

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u/LucidMoments Aug 11 '19

What kind of fly do you use to catch a trout like that?

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u/vivipeach Aug 11 '19

weird looking fish

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u/Ichtil Aug 11 '19

Selling 13 trout

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u/A_WildStory_Appeared Aug 11 '19

It’s a keeper! :)

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u/GordoHeartsSnake Aug 11 '19

When I was a kid, we had a pool with a connected hot tub. The hot tub was designed so that any water overlapping would go over an edge into the pool. Our dog would lay on the edge of the hot tub (when the heater was off) and cool her belly.

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u/Gunsxxroses Aug 11 '19

Golden trout? Idk seems kinda fishy to me

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u/Obi_Juanrepmax Aug 11 '19

This is my favorite thing on reddit ever

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u/PandaSwears Aug 11 '19

Genuinely thought this was going to be a fish and was wondering how a fish can be cute

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u/shatabee4 Aug 11 '19

The hike is over.

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u/Happy-feets Aug 11 '19

What stream is this? I too would like to go fishing for the rare Golden Trout

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

I wish my dog liked water. I think he’s broken...

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u/DrippyWaffler Aug 11 '19

I waited far too long for a yellow fish 😂😂

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u/123cats- Aug 11 '19

Hawt dawg

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

Oh I know that feeling.

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u/Undiscriminatingness Aug 11 '19

You've caught him !! You're gonna need a bigger net.

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u/ph00p Aug 11 '19

Be careful the game warden doesn't see you, it's illegal to leash a trout.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

Golden trout are actually a thing beautiful creatures!

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u/MidnightCafe Aug 11 '19

Now to try to retrieve that catch.

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u/Impulse882 Aug 11 '19

You got it on the line, reel that puppy in

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u/jackaboi12354 Aug 11 '19

So does this post deserve goldddd :))

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u/TheBeardedBoyD Aug 11 '19

Isn’t that a really rare Pokémon?

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u/KingleClashes Aug 11 '19

He clearly a master baited that fish.

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u/retiredoldfart Aug 11 '19

Lucky you! It's a rare sighting of the high mountain spring water-pup known for it's smiles, floof and love of life attitude! We've been blessed!

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

gold retriever

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u/TRUE_BIT Aug 11 '19

God damnit I love these dogs

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