Golden Retriever Puppies - How to Choose a Healthy Puppy With the Ideal Personality!

Golden retriever puppies must be the cutest lookingawards that they want to proudly show off to you.
creatures in the world! But, these lovely little bundlesBecause they are enthusiastic and love their golden
of fur grow bigger. And unless you know what theirretrievers all they want is for the puppies to go to a
background is you could end up with an unfriendly,nice loving home. This sort of golden retriever
unhealthy grown up dog. Let's look at some of waysbreeder would be where you would want to get
to make finding a good natured golden easier, thatyour new puppy from.
will also minimize any future health problems that mayWhen it comes to choosing puppies with a nice
appear in later lifetemperament you need to start by looking at the
Where is the best place to get your golden retrievertraits of the breeding pair. A caring breeder will be
puppies?more than happy to let you see the breeding pair
Well, first of all let's look at 3 main places thatand let you get to know them. This way you can
prospective dog owners have to purchase their newsee what sort of temperament they have as this will
golden from.be passed down to the puppies.
1 - Pet Store - This is probably one of the worstHealth problems in later years can be minimized by
places to even consider buying your dog from.asking the breeder if you can see any papers they
Although the pet store in essence should know allhave that shows that the adults have been checked
about the animals they supply to a customer,(andfor any inherent problems or diseases. A hip problem
some do) in truth lots of them just want to sell asin elderly goldens is known as hip dysplasia and is
many as they can and are not bothered where theycommon in this breed of dog. You should check with
came from! Many stores just want to sell and makethe breeder if the parents of the puppy have been
a profit. There's usually not much thought gone intochecked for this problem by the OFA. This is a test
the quality of breeders that they have acquired themthat is based around using an x ray diagnostic tool. If
from.the breeder tells you that you don't need to bother
2 - Home Breeders - Regard this another poor choicewith things like that, hear those alarm bells ringing and
for breeders. These tend to be people who havemove on!
dogs and they are maybe considering getting theIn simple terms, finding the right golden retriever pup
female spayed. The thought of making some quickis down to choosing a reputable caring breeder. While
money comes to mind before they do this! TypicallyI'm not saying all pet stores are uncaring and the
this kind of breeder doesn't really have a clue aboutsame would be said for your "backroom or home
looking after the puppies or even how to check theirbreeders", but the sensible choice would be to find
health. They just see it as a way to make someyourself a reputable breeder. Take the time to get
quick cash. Once the puppies have been bred all theyto know the parents of the puppy you are looking to
want to do is sell them for as much as they can.buy and you will know basically what sort of
3 - Reputable Breeders - Finding these breeders istemperament the puppy will have when it grows up.
not so easy but it is well worth the time looking forNone of us has a crystal ball to look into the future
them and investigating them. They are usually dogto definitely say there will be no health problems. But
lovers who may make some spare income fromby asking to see any certificate of proof to show
selling some of their puppies but money is not in thethere are no known diseases or in-bred health
forefront of their mind. The welfare and health ofproblems that may exist in the parents, you
their dogs however is! They will most likely showshortening the odds of there being any major future
their dogs and will have plenty of trophies andrisks.