[AnAmericanMother]

Oh, Goldens are so VERY sweet. Lots of my friends have them and they're adorable.

Not as birdy or as persistent in the field as Labs, but wonderful "gentleman's gun dogs".

Have you seen the thing going around the internet about the difference between Goldens and Labs?

[Miss Behave]

No, I haven't seen that going around the internet—the difference between Labs and Goldens. I'll have to look for it. And YES...unfortunately I know every sound imaginable that squirrs make—I had baby ones in my ceiling and got schooled in how to capture them (and reunite them all with their trollop mommy,) and one fell down inside the walls. Another fell to the ground from the ingress hole and was trapped trying to climb back up, and the other one was a lazy couch-potato-ne'er-do-well that didn't want to leave the nest.... It's a funny, long story full of valuable squirr hands-on learning experiences that's pretty unbelievable. I have a TIGHT relationship with the Squirr Community and am fluent in "Squirr." LOL.

[nina0113]

Oh, Goldens are so VERY sweet. Lots of my friends have them and they're adorable.

I hope the ones from professional breeders are smarter than the ones from backyard breeders - every Golden I've known has been from a BYB and they were all dumber than a box of rocks. Sweet and adorable, yes, but I'd have to have something a little smarter than that.