Two big golden retrievers take turns getting carried while coffee waits

The coffee has to go down first. Their owner sets her mug on the counter, and two big golden retrievers take turns being lifted chest to chest, a morning she summed up as "coffee and a workout".

While one dog is up in her arms, the other stands on its hind legs, paws on her dog-print pyjamas. When they swap, the one who just came down watches from the floor. She calls it their "morning uppies".

None of it is new for Chili, the older golden. In April 2025, before Stevie was born, she posted herself carrying him under the line "POV: your dog never grew out of being picked up". Three days after this reel, she cradled him on the porch and called it "the one thing that always calms my dog down".

Meet Chili and Stevie

• Chili was once billed as her "90 lb golden baby".

• Stevie, his "puppy sister", is named after Stevie Nicks.

• She calls the new home their "own little puppy paradise".

Pet parents could relate

Other dog people weighed in.

The ASPCA says to lift a large dog "from the underside, supporting his chest with one arm and his rear end with the other".

The lifting session ends with one golden in her arms, the other already pressed against her legs again, and the coffee still on the counter.

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