Many friends want to buy a lovely Golden Retriever puppy, but often don’t know how to choose one. Rest assured, below is a step-by-step guide teaching you six easy steps to select a Golden Retriever puppy, allowing you to easily pick a healthy and adorable Golden Retriever puppy.

Golden Retriever (Detailed Introduction)

1. Don’t pay too much attention to the parents of the Golden Retriever puppies. Most of the time, you won’t see the puppies’ parents because breeding dogs are mostly kept in kennels.

Even if you do see them, it’s recommended to just take a look and not take it too seriously — we can’t do parentage tests, and maybe the kennel just randomly takes in a batch of Golden Retriever puppies and casually assigns parents to them.

So, unless they are very good friends, please don’t believe them — no kennel produces puppies every month. However, every kennel’s dogs never run out, why? You can think about it yourself.

2. Focus more on the Golden Retriever puppies themselves. We should shift our focus from the parents to the puppies, putting 90% of our attention on the puppies since that is what we can personally control. Moreover, puppies born from pet dogs can also become champions. Can 30% of puppies from champion dogs become champions?

Probably even fewer. Actually, if you train seriously and pour endless love into them, it’s possible to pick a top-quality puppy from an ordinary batch and turn it into a champion dog.

However, if you are careless and indifferent, even buying a puppy from champion descendants does not guarantee it will become a champion. Besides, the price difference between them is quite significant.

Generally, a Golden Retriever pet dog costs around 1000 yuan, while a champion dog costs about 10,000 yuan.

3. Things to take before picking a Golden Retriever puppy: These items must be brought along when selecting a puppy. Though they seem simple, they are very useful.

1. A fine-toothed comb;

2. A scale;

3. A thermometer;

4. Wet wipes;

5. Golden Retriever information (especially photos) from magazines and the internet.

4. Let the puppies calm down for 20 minutes before selection. When you first meet the Golden Retriever puppies, don’t rush. This breed is hyper in front of people and often rushes forward excitedly upon meeting new people. Don’t be anxious; wait until their enthusiasm dies down and then observe carefully. After about 20 minutes, the little ones will settle down.

Then you can carefully choose your Golden Retriever puppy.

5. Choose the largest Golden Retriever puppy. Even within the same litter, the puppies differ in size. The bigger ones are definitely stronger and usually get to eat and drink first. These puppies tend to be better. It’s a simple Darwinian theory.

6. Ask the owner about the birth order of the Golden Retriever puppies. Usually, those born earlier are better. However, the owner’s words are just a reference as they may not remember correctly. Also, owners might want to sell the weaker puppies first so that the last one or two good dogs, even if not sold, can be used as breeding dogs.

So just listen casually. Above are the six quick steps to select a Golden Retriever puppy. Hope it helps you?