The book I am looking for was about a bunch of different animals (a golden lab puppy, a kitten, a hen, a duck and turtle I think, maybe also a squirrel) that all lived together in a cottage in the woods. I think it was a golden book but can’t find it on their lists. I also think it was a picture book. It has several pictures of them all cohabiting and doing house chores. I think there was a picture of the puppy with an apron pulling stuff out of the oven. I also remember pictures of them holding little hobo packs (bags on the end of a stick) possibly moving to the cottage. The artwork was not cartoony it was more like paintings.
I’m wondering if it isn’t Animal Friends, which is indeed a Little Golden Book, published in 1953, by Jane Werner Watson and illustrated by Garth Williams.
Or The Very Best Home for Me: http://www.amazon.com/Very-Best-Home-Little-Golden/dp/030702153X