Golden Retriever Breeders in Florida reviewed

Golden Retriever Breeders in Florida: Wonderlands’ Golden Retrievers

This Golden Retriever breeder in Florida is located in Hawthorne, Fl. According to their website, they breed wonderful Goldens for the show ring and their litters are thoroughly researched and planned to produce the healthiest and happiest puppies. All their dogs are OFA hip and elbow certified. This breeder is a member of the Mid Florida Golden Retriever Club. As a small breeder, they only breed a limited number of litters per year. All their puppies live in the house as family members, not in a kennel setting. If you are interested in this breeder, please visit their website.

Golden Retriever Breeders in Florida: Snowbird Goldens

This Golden Retriever Breeder in Florida is AKC Breeder of Merit and is located in Ocklawaha, FL. This breeder is heavily involved with the breed, being a member of Marion Alachua Kennel Club, Golden Retriever Club of America and Mid Florida Golden Retriever Club. According to their website, they breed only to the highest standard of the breed with thorough health testing (hips, elbows, eye and heart) and wonderful temperaments produced as a result. Their wonderful dogs are involved in Obedience, Rally, Fieldwork and Conformation. You can see their beautiful dogs and their pedigrees on their website. If you are interested in one of the puppies from their limited and carefully planned litters, you will need to fill in a questionnaire on their website first.

Golden Retriever Breeders in Florida: Prism Goldens

This breeder is located in Ocala, FL. As said on their website, this breeder is also highly involved with the breed and participates in many aspects of dog sport where their dogs have acquired titles and awards such as Conformation, Rally, Obedience, hunt tests and Working Certificates. They work with the Golden Retriever Club of America’s Certificate of Conformation Assessment program and their dogs boast all the qualities required by this program. All their litters are thoroughly planned and parents health tested for Hips, Elbows, Heart, as well as some other genetic issues. In their breeding, this breeder places emphasis on conformation, temperament and health.

Lorelai Golden Retrievers

This Golden Retriever Breeder in Florida is located in Parrish, FL. They are a member of the Mid Florida Golden Retriever Club, Golden Retriever Club of America, and Florida Gulf Coast Golden Retriever Club. As stated on their website, this breeder’s journey in Golden Retrievers started back in the 80s when they purchased their first Golden, not knowing yet how deeply involved they will become with the breed. Currently, apart from breeding Goldens, they take an active part in Obedience, Hunting and Conformation. Their beautiful Goldens have awards and titles in many areas such as obedience, fieldwork and agility. In their breeding, this breeder emphasizes the health of their dogs (all parents are hip, elbow, eyes and heart cleared) and wonderful temperament.

Golden Retriever Breeders in Florida: KnightDrmz Goldens

This is a breeder that has been actively involved in breeding Goldens for over 15 years but have been in love with Goldens even longer than that. According to their website, they are involved in Obedience, Agility, Tracking and Conformation and their dogs excelled in a lot of these activities. They breed for top quality and take great care of their puppies and parents. All puppies and parents are health tested.

Magik Goldens

This Florida Golden Retriever Breeder is based in Central Florida. This is a Breeder with three decades of experience in working with Goldens. According to their website, the goal of their work is breeding Golden Retrievers with excellent conformation, personality and trainability. All of their parents are thoroughly health tested and hip, eye, elbow and heart certified.

Another Florida Golden Retriever Breeder: Jazzie’s Goldens

This Golden Retriever Breeder in Florida is located in Sattelite Beach, Florida. They have been in love with the breed for over 25 years. According to their website, this Breeder and their dogs are currently actively involved in many sport areas such as conformation, tracking, obedience, agility and hunting. They breed to the highest standards of Goldern Retriever Standard and GRCA Code of Ethics.

Golden Retriever Breeders in Florida: Haila Golden Retrievers

This Breeder is located in Winter Garden, Fl. They have been involved with Goldens for over 15 years. According to their website, they strive to produce excellent Goldens in accordance with the health and temperament standards of the Golden Retriever Club of America (All their dogs and puppies have all necessary health clearances). This Kennel’s owner is also a Vice President of the Mid-Florida Golden Retriever Club. This breeder and their dogs have excelled in many activities such as rally, obedience, conformation and therapy work.

Gemini Goldens

Gemini Goldens is a Florida Golden Retriever Breeder located in Cocoa, Fl. According to their website, they produce wonderful healthy puppies from generations of superior Golden Retrievers with hip, elbows, heart and eye clearances. They strive to produce Golden puppies with wonderful temperaments, obedience and excellent structure and health. This breeder is also a member of Golden Retriever Club of America and Mid Florida Golden Retriever Club.

Golden Retriever Breeders in Florida: Salty Goldens

This Florida Golden Retriever Breeder is located in Jacksonville. According to their website, this is a family-based breeder who doesn’t use kennels and raises their puppies in the warm environment of the family. Their puppies’ parents are thoroughly health checked including OFA hips and elbows, and puppies go to their new homes with health certificates. Apart from early socialization, this breeder also provides some of the early house training and crate training to their puppies to make their first weeks in the new homes easier on the puppy and the owner. You will need to leave a deposit if you decide you are interested in one of this Breeder’s puppies. This Breeder will take their puppy back if the new owner’s situation changes and they are unable to keep the puppy any longer.

Before you adopt your puppy: Golden Retriever owner review

Our pup Sammy is almost 3 years old now so I can proudly say we have some experience with Golden Retrievers (Sammy is our first Golden). Here are a few things about Goldens in general and Sammy in particular.

These dogs have so much energy! They need to be able to expand that energy every day. We take him for walks at least twice a day and only leash him if we walk in town. But what he really loves is when we go to the woods or to the beach and we usually let him off leash there so that he can run around wild. (Which seems to be his natural state!) Goldens need some free run time so they can develop properly and also so they stay happy and exhausted. An exhausted Golden is a happy Golden is an easy Golden! 🙂 A bored Golden Retriever means chewed up slippers and knocked down flower pots. You’ll have to walk your Golden daily no matter the weather. This may not be a great dog for you if you live somewhere in the Northern hemisphere and if you don’t appreciate the smell of wet dog hair!

Feeding your Golden. If you thought that most of the expense will be to buy a Golden from a breeder, you are wrong. Most of the expense will be the food you will buy for them. Especially if your Golden ends up being allergic to a lot of food, like ours. For this reason, we only buy premium food and it’s not cheap! But it’s cheaper than taking Sammy to a vert or cleaning up his vomit (which happens when he eats things he is allergic to. Strangely never happens when he manages to gobble up some poop he found out on the beach before we could stop him. Speaking of which: eating poop may be an issue!). Allergy is quite common with Golden Retrievers, and is usually easily recognizable. If you see rash on your dog’s nose/eyes/ears or you see them itch too much, or vomit, it may be something in their food not agreeing with them. Allergy can be tricky in terms of managing but once you have figure out what exactly your dog is allergic to, it becomes much easier.

We also try to minimize treats to keep him from getting overweight and to teach him not to beg when we are at the table.

We also give Sammy vitamins to make sure he is getting everything he needs.

Grooming. You will do a lot of grooming! This just comes with owning a Golden Retriever. Prepare to buy a lot of brushes and prepare to be using them constantly. If you don’t, all of that hair will end up on your living room floor and that’s a lot of hair! Also, if you don’t brush your Golden regularly, their coat quality can really go down. Matted hair and hair clumps that are hard to brush out and that can only be cut out probably isn’t something you really want for your Golden Retriever. So brush! Brushing is also an excellent time to inspect your pup for ticks and dirt.

Personality. Golden Retriever personality is something special, of course. He loves everyone, most of all his family. But they are also very trusting towards complete strangers! If you need a guard dog or a serious dog that will only follow you and listen to you, a Golden is probably not your best option. They are so friendly with strangers it’s like they wouldn’t mind leaving you to follow a stranger to their home. We don’t have an issue with this (except of course, we don’t allow Sammy to walk away with anyone 🙂

One issue you may encounter with Goldens is they can be prone to separation anxiety and/or boredom when left alone. Which usually translates in being quite destructive! Your furniture, shoes, your phone charger, the leg of a chair – anything can (and likely will) be destroyed if you leave your Golden alone for a long time and if they aren’t used to it. When Sammy was little, this was a real problem for us. He’s mellowed out a lot since then and now he mostly sleeps when he is home alone. But the first few years can be tough!

But, the upside, of course, is the immeasurable love your Golden will give you daily. That alone is worth a lot of downsides. Sammy is definitely worth it for us, has been even in the roughest of days when he was still a silly pup. I guess they are so cute when they are little so that you don’t kill them for being little bastards 🙂