The Golden Retriever, originally from Scotland, has a pedigree of Shedders, and was originally used for hunting and touring waterfowl shot down by guns because of its strong swimming ability and ability to carry prey back to its owner from the water.
Latin Scientific Name: Golden Retriever
Alias: Golden Retriever, Golden Retriever, Golden Retriever
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrates
Phylum: Mammalia
Subphylum: Mammalia
Family: Canis lupus
Breed IQ: Rank 4
- Morphological characteristics
The Golden Retriever is ranked fourth in dog intelligence and is currently used as a family dog and guide dog because of its gentle eyes, smiling face, angelic personality, and golden coat covered in heavenly light. The American Kennel Club (AKC) standard states that the coat is “rich, lustrous golden of various shades” and does not allow for too light or too dark a color. The color is not allowed to be too light or too dark.
It itself is divided into two main categories of colors: light cream (not enough pigment) and dark coffee.
The Golden Retriever’s main moulting period is twice a year, but because of its larger size and more hair than small dogs, it is often mistaken for a very hairy dog, whether large or small.
The Golden Retriever is a well-proportioned, powerful and lively breed, scientifically known as the Golden Retriever, solid, with reasonable body parts, legs that are neither too long nor too clumsy, friendly expression, warm, alert and confident personality. Because he is a hunting dog, his essential characteristics are expressed only in difficult working conditions. His general appearance, balance, gait and use of the breed should receive more attention than any individual part of his body.
Defects: Any deviation from the ideal description of the breed may be considered a defect, with the severity of the defect determined by the degree to which it contradicts the breed’s use or is contrary to the breed’s traits.
Disqualifying Conditions
1. Height below or above the standard height of 2.5m.
2. The teeth are protruding in the palate or protruding in the lower palate.
3. A large amount of white hair or white spots on the chest.
- Personality traits
In many families, people’s general knowledge of the Golden Retriever is that the Golden Retriever is lively, pampered, loyal, and simple, and I can see him when I play. He is friendly to anyone and can be good friends with humans, and because of his good temperament and clever brain, many Golden Retrievers have now been trained as guide dogs to contribute to humanity.
Personality Traits
Playfulness
The dog is busy constantly fetching things back and forth, and is best at picking up slippers, shoes, balls and rag doll’s, etc. A favorite toy is a spherical toy. He will come to his owner’s side, lift a leg to attract his attention, or dart over and pamper him, asking to play with him. They will “grunt, grunt” with nasal sounds, circle around the owner, or bite something in their mouths as soon as they see it, and run to the owner.
Even a big piece of dead wood will not be spared.
Pouting
He makes a nasal sound of “humming, humming” and moves his body closer and closer to the owner in hopes that he will pet him. He will go under the owner’s straddle or lay down with his belly exposed to “play” with the owner. At this time, do not chase him away aggressively, but try to maintain physical contact with him, even if only for a moment. This will make him feel loved by his owner.
Loneliness
When a puppy has just left its mother or has been left alone in the house, it will bark “ooo~~~~”. Shoulders slumped, head bowed, the whole body is powerless to stand in its “territory”. Even if a ball rolls over, it won’t look at it. “Phew” sighs a breath, trying to make himself sleep. At such times, only the love of the owner can give him tenderness.
Obedience
A dog will be completely obedient to an alpha he agrees with. The owner of the dog is of course the owner, and he will only make a defenseless movement to his master by lying on his back and showing his weakest belly, which means he has no intention to resist and is a sign of absolute obedience. In addition, when the tail is stretched back, the belly is lying on the ground, the ears are collapsed, and the dog looks up at the owner with sorrow, it means obedience.
Excitement
For fear of losing the toy, they will hold the toy with their front legs, bite it with their teeth, and shake it. Due to the excitement, they may drool or raise their belly.
Satisfaction
After full activity and play, the dog will lie down lazily and sink into a happy and tired feeling, feeling satisfied inside. While staring at the owner and the family’s every move, to make sure that everyone has not forgotten its presence. When he is in a good mood, he will also make a pleasant sound of pampering.
Joyful
Meals and walks are happy times. Dropping his ears, squinting his eyes and sticking out his tongue are his expressions when he is in a happy mood. The tail wags vigorously, the body twists from side to side, and the gait is light. When the tail is wagging desperately, it is the happiest time. Sometimes, it will wrinkle its nose and curl its upper lip to show a smile. When it makes a “hum, hum” sound from its nose, it is also a sign of happiness.
Tired
Fatigue after full exercise also makes the dog feel overloaded. The puppy will immediately drift off to sleep, yawning and falling asleep in no time. When it is deeply asleep, how to call, can not wake it up, may let it sleep a good big sleep. As the saying goes, “an inch of sleep is an inch of sleep”, and when it wakes up after a good sleep, it will move around energetically until it is tired.
Thinking
When thinking, the dog will also be silent. But the dog does not brood because it does not fit its personality. It quickly gets into the next action and is very enthusiastic about it. When it thinks in the moments between actions and actions, and after repeating this thinking over and over again, it can learn a lot from it. Therefore, repetition is the key to conditioning.
Talking
When a dog wants to talk about something, it will desperately look up at its owner with this “inarticulate” look. He will keep making the same movements, and then make a low barking sound, hoping that the owner can understand his mood. At this time, you should try to detect its requirements from its eyes. The dog’s demands are very simple and uncomplicated, and he will never make extravagant demands.
Boredom
The reason why dogs feel bored is because after having a good time, they temporarily do not know what they should do next. So, it feels lazy, only eyes constantly looking for new naughty objects. But the dog can not always be immersed in this boredom, as long as there is something to stimulate its curiosity, it will immediately get up, completely forget about themselves just now.
Intense interest
The dog’s curiosity is very strong. When seeing animals and insects for the first time. The ears will perk up sensitively, the tail wagging constantly, with a little nervousness, slowly approaching. Once they know that “everything is safe”, they will sniff with their nose and bite with their mouths. …… When they feel strange or encounter something strange, they will crane their necks like people and fall into thinking.
Happy
When the owner is playing with himself, he will feel happy. The tail is raised, the neck is stretched out, the trot is brisk, and when happy, it keeps jumping, and the whole body shows uncontrollable joy. He will also wiggle his ears up and down and stick out his tongue “ha, ha” to pamper his owner.
- Conservation knowledge
The Golden Retriever is cute, smart and obedient, and was originally bred to be a retriever for hunting wild birds, with excellent swimming range. Nowadays, they are mostly used as guide dogs and pet dogs. Very friendly to school children or children, the unique feature of the Golden is that it is friendly and pleasing to people.
Maintenance knowledge
Must prepare
Before preparing to adopt a small Golden Retriever puppy, the following preparations must be made.
1. Take your Golden Retriever puppy for preventive shots regularly. In addition, microchipping, disease treatment, are all things that must be bothered with on the Golden’s growth process.
2. Since Golden puppies have not yet learned to defecate at regular intervals, and the number of defecations is high. Therefore, the owner may have to be patient and wait behind the Golden’s butt all day with a newspaper to receive the dog’s poop and urine. At the same time, as soon as the little golden moves, he will carry it to the designated place and start learning to defecate at a fixed point.
3. The owner has to take the trouble to comb the golden hair that thick back hair, not only need to comb hair every day to organize, but also, when the dog is eating, also need to pay attention to not let its mouth eat dirty, but also to avoid being food dirty. In addition, the usual cleanliness of the environment should not be neglected; know that the little golden retriever will roll on the ground and get himself dirty.
4. To think clearly whether you are willing to make the dog happy for the rest of its life, as well as whether you are willing to constantly put the dog’s poop and urine, wash the bedding quilt, and spend more than ten years of such a life with it.
5. The life span of a golden retriever dog is generally 10-15 years, which is very short. So, adopt a golden retriever dog, the owner needs to take responsibility for these ten years.
6. Golden Retrievers, like children, can have parasites in their stomachs, and should be dewormed regularly for Golden Retrievers, both inside and outside, starting when they are young.
7. Some Golden Retrievers have hip dysplasia due to genetic factors or acquired factors, and owners should be especially careful when caring for their Golden Retriever in life.
- Feeding Essentials
The Golden Retriever is a good boy who is not a picky eater, both well-behaved and obedient, and has a relatively large appetite due to its size. A healthy diet for a large dog requires strict control. What can a Golden Retriever eat? What is not allowed to eat?
Feeding points
The best food for Golden Retrievers is dog food. It is very difficult to achieve a reasonable nutritional ratio in homemade food, and dog food is processed according to such a nutritional ratio, which is the best food for dogs. In addition, if you give your dog homemade food, pay attention to put a very small amount of salt and cooked food, excessive salt and raw food are harmful to the health of the dog. If you can’t give it dog food and eat homemade food, pay attention to the mix to ensure balanced nutrition. Animal offal (note: do not feed pig liver for a long time, it will be poisoned), meat, corn meal, fish (note: the hard spines of fish may be stuck, it is best to pick away), carrots, etc., can be dog food, almost no salt cooked and fed. In addition to feeding puppy dog food needs to be mixed with a little warm water.
A. What Golden Retriever likes to eat
1. Golden hair is very fond of eating fruit, because the fruit is sweet, crisp and juicy, such as apples, pears, cherries, watermelon, peaches can give golden hair to eat some, can also bananas, but to consider the golden hair of the gastrointestinal can not stand.
As the dog’s main food dog food golden hair is like to eat, sometimes you can add some other things to it to eat, such as meat ah, vegetables ah, chicken liver, etc., these golden retrievers are also like to eat.
Second, the golden retriever can not eat what
1. Golden hair always like to eat the master eat food, but people eat food is not suitable for golden hair to eat, such as bread, golden hair can not eat, because the salt is too high, if the golden hair eat more salt, golden hair that a bright golden hair to fall off.
2. onions, garlic and other condiments can not be given to the golden hair to eat, these foods have strong toxicity to the golden hair of the blood, eat more will cause acute anemia, and even endanger life.
3. spicy seasonings irritating, heavy-smelling food is believed to have a sensitive sense of smell of the golden hair is not willing to eat. Such as mustard and chili pepper content too much food, will cause the Golden’s mouth, gastrointestinal ulceration phenomenon, so must not feed.
4. chicken and duck bones can not be fed to the golden. These bones are thin and sharp, but also very hard, not easy to digest, will scratch the Golden’s intestines and stomach, resulting in blood in the stool.
5. can not feed milk to the golden hair, milk is not easy to digest, will make the golden hair diarrhea.
6. the golden hair can not eat the first fruit is the grape, grapes will lead to the golden hair kidney failure, or even death. There are also apples, pears and other fruits of the core can not eat, toxic.
Third, the golden retriever eat what is good for the hair
To make the dog’s hair shiny and beautiful, you can feed the dog more protein-rich feed every day. Additives containing vitamin E, vitamin D and seaweed food, vegetables, such as lean meat, boiled egg yolks, vegetable oil, etc., and feed less food rich in sugar, salt, starch, etc.
Fourth, the senior Golden Retriever feeding considerations
Most golden retrievers will become fat due to reduced activity, so pay attention to controlling the amount of food and feeding more food containing vitamins. A cup of yogurt before bedtime can help digestion.
