Learn about the Golden Retriever

The Golden Retriever was deliberately developed as a soft-mouthed sporting retriever for the Scottish Highlands. Its reconstructed ancestry centres on the Wavy-Coated Retriever and Tweed Water Spaniel, with setter and Bloodhound influence also represented. It later became the parent line behind the Goldendoodle and one of the world's best-known family dogs. Tap a circle inside to keep digging.