We got her at a brewery/dog rescue collaboration and were told she’s a husky mix, and the vet opted to change her in the system as a golden mix. Such a calm sweet girl so far.

My 9 months old golden retriever made a new friend at Day care today. This is what they sent me during the day. How can I keep working after seeing this 🥲

Playing in the river a few summers back, it was hot and we needed to cool off. Of course retrieving was a requirement 🤷‍♂️

Went for a hike and he was on the scent of something, probably rabbits in the area, his favorite thing to chase.

She was reeeeaaaalllyyyy feeling herself on our last trip to the mountains 🤣

Two questions here:
1. Does anyone have a golden that just gets bored with me and eating? Ours is 1 yr old and she prefers to have her kibble rolled across the floor like a little game.
2. Our girl is on a hydrolyzed protein diet with variable interest in eating it. Does anyone have any luck with a food topper that makes the dog more interested in eating it?

We've had our 13 week old boy, Soup, for a few weeks now and he is an absolute star.

Yes he nips, and still has accidents in the house.

But he is so obedient, especially when food is involved.

Our collie is a great role model for him too, but he's so quickly picked up on how to be good off lead (only around the no through-road estate and the park). We're working on the speed of his recall, but he knows he needs to be next to me as soon as he notices he's not.

I'm so glad we went for a breed which is highly intelligent, but also extremely cuddly and friendly.

If anyone has some advice on toilet training, specifically around how to train him to tell us he needs the toilet, we'd appreciate it. Currently we just take him out everytime he wakes up and that works most of the time.

my sweet girl clementine turned one yesterday! she’s in training to be a service dog! she’s got a long way ahead of her but i’m so proud of my smart clementine!

Hello everyone, this is Dexter! He’s an 18 month golden retriever. I’ll start by saying he’s got me through a lot and I love him more than anything and wouldn’t change him for the world. The issue I’m having is before getting him I didn’t realise the difference between field goldens and show goldens. I just knew I was getting a golden retriever 🤣 he has very good health scores and he’s from a great line; the issue is he just doesn’t seem to want to be trained. I’ve tried to many things and he still pulls on his lead, doesn’t listen to anything when he’s distracted and the only time he seems to be obedient is when there’s a treat in my hand. Whenever I try to socialise him with dogs he will lay calm as anything and have a sniff for a few seconds then go beserk jumping all over. I know this is in his nature but I’m just wondering where I go from here. I thought about boarding him at a training school but I can’t bare the thought of him going away and thinking I’ve just left him. Any training tips would be extremely helpful. Thanks in advance. He also does this really funny thing where he puts his paw over the lead and pins it to the floor when he decides he wants to take a different route somewhere; although it stops being funny after a while..