Come on boy.

The dogs have figured out how to open the door.

We'll leave in the morning.

The door will be closed tight, and we'll get back on the dogs or out.

We've tried nine ways to Sunday to get the dogs not to run it.

It's impossible.

It's like a larger calling.

Something way bigger than me that gets the dogs up to the pinnacle.

It's unstoppable.

It really is.

I think I've never heard of anything like that before.

They hike the trail by themselves every day.

Sampson and Baylor are two golden retrievers that we got for our daughter's Christmas of, I think 2008.

They've never really gone anywhere other than together.

They're as much brothers as they can be.

They're best friends.

They're never apart from each other.

I think.

Sampson and Baylor are bonding very, very strongly.

I think they made a great deal to each other.

One of the other reasons that dogs are close together is because they love each other, just like we do.

Our property borders the state land that consists of the pinnacle trail.

They kind of just wandered through the woods and they just found the trail and they saw people and they got excited.

Sam particularly has such a strong spirit about him.

He's just got that.

Yeah, that just forever optimism.

There's no doubt in my mind.

He is here to make everybody feel great.

I'm overwhelmed with joy.

What is this like look at the baby.

I'm like shaking.

I don't know what to do about it.

They're posing.

Samsung.

Sam's got a job to do.

Sam's got a job.

He's got to go make everybody feel good and tell everybody it's going to be okay and to enjoy this life while you have it.

When I see Samsung and Baylor on the trail, I feel overcome with joy and love.

And it's just the most special thing in the world to see them and experience them up here.

There's at least to my knowledge, no leash law that says you have to have them on a leash or a dog, especially a golden the thing he likes the least is being on a leash.

And they love to be able to do their dog thing.

And so we let them do it.

We have had complaints about the dogs being on the trail without supervision and that completely we completely understand.

And I take full responsibility for it, you know, being that way.

I don't see any problem with two chill dogs sitting on on the trails up here, you know, whether they're accompanied or not, as long as they're not aggressive towards anyone, which obviously they're not, I don't see why anyone would have a problem with it.

Both my husband and I are children of the seventies.

We just never subscribed to Super strict control around animal ownership.

What we think the purpose of owning an animal is to love it and to share that love with the animal.

I think the animal gives us a lot more than we give at.

I think excessive training takes away from what they want to do and do what you want them to do.

I want to know what they want to do and see what they want to do.

That's much more interesting.

Dogs can enjoy.

Interesting.

If you watch them carefully.

Sam and Baylor have never gotten lost.

I think the dogs are amazingly intelligent to be able to navigate that trail and find their way back here.

No matter where they go up there, they just have an innate sense of radar I guess to get home.

It's it's pretty remarkable.

I think they know what they're doing very obviously, and they know where they're going.

They knew where the water was so they had a little bit of water.

They certainly know what they're doing as they like to do that.

Well, God bless them.

When we decided to get them their bells so that when they're out running, that hunters will hear them because, you know, they're reddish dogs, They could be mistaken for a deer.

So the bell is an indicator that it's not a deer, it's something else.

Please don't shoot me.

Oh, yeah, I know how sweet things.

They're 11 now.

As the dogs get older, I do worry a bit more than I used to about their physical ability to actually get up and down.

We've noticed that in the last probably year they've really started to slow down.

Made it.

Are they literally here by themselves?

Are you kidding me?

It's we were hoping to see them and it just felt like a little piece of magic to have them come along with us.

Hi, Hi, sweetie.

Hi, sweetie.

Hi.

Oh, no.

Good.

You two need to get over here.

Get over here.

Oh, baby.

Hmm?

Yeah.

You're just such a love bug.

Look at you guys.

Oh, look at you guys.

Mountain dogs.

He likes me.

He's leaning on me.

I cannot get up.

I think they might be doing it just because.

I think it's their purpose.

They love being in nature.

They love being with people.

They love just bringing joy to the community and beyond.

We're all busy and working during the day.

So Goldens particularly have separation anxiety.

When you're gone, they kind of freak out.

So it's their way of being around people while we're gone.

I think this is like what they love to do is just be outside sniffing the wind.

I think the dogs might be doing this just because they're going back to their roots of their ancestors being free out in the wild.

I think that they climb to the top of the trail probably for a lot of reasons, partially, maybe food, but they seem like they really love the company and they really like being a part of this community, of people up at the top of this mountain.

And I've always found that dogs like like hills or like to be high where they can see, you know, directions.

And that's very valuable.

I guess they're sort of kids forever.

They can just play as long as they want and they're happy.

I think there are things we don't necessarily understand.

Maybe the dogs do.

I do have concerns about them.

Something could happen.

You know, it's life is going can happen any minute of any day.

I think dogs do indeed have consciousness and plenty of it.

I think if we want answers to what dogs do, we just look at what people do.

It's peaceful up here.

Why wouldn't you want to be up here?

Look at it.

It doesn't get much better than this right?

Dogs are infinitely more connected to the spirit world than we are.

And if I were to look through a dog's eyes and see such a bigger, more pleasant place, I know they're getting towards the end.

Hopefully we'll have some sort of shrine up there for them someday.

That'll be there forever home.