Our Gentle Giant

Golden Meadows Retrievers is proud to announce our newest addition to our breeding program “Goliath”. Goliath is from our wonderful parents Giselle and Samson. He was born larger than the typical golden retriever puppy which is why he earned the name Goliath. When selecting pups for our breeding program we are evaluating for looks, confirmation, and temperament and Goliath fits it all.

Goliath is now 8 weeks old, he is happy, healthy, and full of love. Goliath is still much larger than the typical 8 week old puppyand adorable as ever! He is enjoying his puppy play dates through out the day and exploring the ranch. Goliath is going to be a gentle giant when full grown.

Like all of the puppies from Golden Meadows, Goliath was raised with ENS, Rule of 7, and Von Falconers Way. You can read about these on our web site.

Here are some photos of Goliath, isn’t he adorable?!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10 random facts about Golden Meadows

1. Golden Meadows Retrievers is family run and cared for, for over 20 years.

2. We care for more than just Golden Retrievers and Vizslas. (Horses, Goats, Cats, fish, and a Tortoise)

Tank the Tortoise

Oreo and Arcadia

Cheyenne and baby Tawny

Alicia with Mochi and Maverick

3. Jasper is the oldest golden retriever male on the property. He is 10 years old this summer and imported from

Cheque Repulic.  He still runs around and collects avocados from the orchard daily.

Gramps, Jasper

4. Golden Meadows has rescued abandoned and injured baby wild animals. (raccoon’s and falcons)

Simon and Theodore

5. Golden Meadows has their own personal certified groomer, Lupe.

Lupe, our Certified Dog Groomer

6. Golden Meadows is located in the middle of 110 acres outside the small town of Moorpark, Ca.

Golden Meadows

See more photos on our facilities page

7.  Stanley is the oldest Vizsla male on the property, he is 7 years old and thinks everyone comes here just for him.

Stanley

8.  Each Golden Meadows trainer hand picks their trainees for the training program.

We evaluate the puppies at 7 weeks of age for their families and our training program

9. We have had over 5 “Ryders” come through our training program.

This is our latest “Ryder” who has gone to his forever home

10. When Joe, our puppy whisperer, started he didn’t speak any English.

Joe, our puppy whisperer

 

Welcoming Tenders

Golden Meadows Retrievers is located in the middle of 110 beautiful acres.  Our golden retrievers and Vizslas are our pride and joy but it wouldn’t be a ranch life without fresh eggs from the chicken coop every morning! We do mark the eggs so we know which ones will be hatching eventually.  The arrival of our chickens is just as exciting as the arrival of our pups, we loooove animals.

Our pups are gentle, loving, and very smart. Here is a photo of one of our pups welcoming “Tenders” to the Ranch.

Adorable right?!

We are very proud of our lines, we breed not only for looks but for temperament and health as well. All of our pups start their socialization and training at 3 days of age and receive it daily until they go to their forever homes at 8 weeks of age. The socialization and training at this point is not so much behavioral training but making a more well rounded pup by the time they enter your home. We get your puppy use to new environments, sounds, smells, materials, and textures. We do this using the Rule of 7, ENS, and Von Falconers Way. (You can read about all of these on the top right hand side of our web site).

Once the pups are old enough we will start taking them on car rides around the ranch. This gets them comfortable in the car so they aren’t completely shocked when they go home. Our trainees get car rides into town where they become familiar with the noises in town. Since we are located in the middle of 110 acres they are not around the town noises every day. Our trainers take the puppies home with them over night for socialization and to prepare them for their trip to their forever home.

 

Here are a couple more photos of the pup welcoming Tenders:

"Underwater Puppies"

Golden Meadows is thrilled to be working with Seth Casteel on his up and coming book “Underwater Puppies”, scheduled to come out Fall of 2014. Seth is an award winning photographer and New York Times best selling Author. Seths journey started in 2007 when he began taking photos of homeless pets in order to help them find loving homes. He was able to help countless amounts of animals find loving familes with his amazing photos. You can learn more about Seth and his work with homeless animals here: http://www.onepicturesaves.com/

Our Golden Retriever puppies were included in Seth’s very successful book “Underwater Dogs” in 2012. “Underwater Dogs”was the best selling photography book of 2012!  Seth is a pleasure to work with and an all around great guy, he takes amazing photos and we couldn’t be happier to have our golden retriever and Vizsla pups included in his work.

Here is Seth on a previous photo shoot with our golden retriever puppies for his book “Underwater Dogs”

Here are some photos of Golden Meadows puppies during our photo shoot with Seth Casteel for his up and coming book “Underwater Puppies” :

 

 

 

 

Golden Meadows looks forward to working with Seth in the future and can not wait to get a copy of “Underwater Puppies” of our own!