Goldenwind Golden Retrievers

WELCOME TO GOLDENWIND GOLDEN RETRIEVERS!!!

(Texas Golden Retriever Breeders  since 1997)

Goldenwind Golden Retrievers are Golden Retriever Exhibitors and Breeders of multiple AKC Champion, Obedience, Hunt/WC, Agility and Rally titled Golden Retrievers and multiple Canadian Champions.  We also have produced certified TDI (Therapy) dogs.  Most important of all we are reputable Breeders who welcome your questions about Golden Retrievers and look forward to the opportunity to educate you on our wonderful breed.   

Our Credentials & Affiliations:

Golden Retriever Club Of America (GRCA):  1995 - present

Dallas-Ft. Worth Metro Golden Retriever Club (DFWMGRC):  12 Years

North Texas Dogs In Action (NTDIA)

Dallas/Fort Worth Metro Golden Retriever Rescue

ArkLaTex Golden Retriever Club - newly formed club, has received new member            

                                                                                                          packet  from GRCA for GRCA accreditation

Alan was an active Dallas-Ft Worth Metro Golden Retriever Club member having served on the DFWMGRC Board Of Directors three times, DFWMGRC Vice President in 2000 and DFWMGRC Board Member At Large in 2004 and 2005.  He also had served as DFWMGRC Specialty Show Chairman and Chief Ring Steward.  He is a member and active volunteer of Dallas/Fort Worth Metro Golden Retriever Rescue.  In addition, Alan wrote the Dallas-Ft Worth Metro Golden Retriever Club Member Column for the Golden Retriever News which is the official publication of the Golden Retriever Club Of America.  Alan is on the By-laws Committee of the new ArkLaTex Golden Retriever Club and assisted with the writing of the club By-Laws.

Ellen served on the Dallas/Fort Worth Metro Golden Retriever Rescue Board the first year that Golden Retriever Rescue broke off from the Dallas-Ft Worth Metro Golden Retriever Club. In addition, over the years, Ellen had been active in fundraising for Golden Retriever Rescue, to include the sales of the "Recycle Love" Golden Rescue Tee shirts and raffle tickets to benefit Golden Retriever Rescue. She is a member and active volunteer of Dallas/Fort Worth Metro Golden Retriever Rescue.  Ellen is on the By-laws Committee of the new ArkLaTex Golden Retriever Club and assisted with the writing of the club By-laws.

We encourage you to browse through our pages and know this DFW Golden Retriever breeder website has led you to a DFW (Dallas Fort Worth) area Golden Retriever Breeder that has all the credentials you are looking for to help educate you in any and all aspects of Golden Retriever ownership and a Golden Retriever Breeder who will be available to you for the entire life of the newest Golden Retriever member of your family. Goldenwind Goldens also offers boarding and grooming services for our Golden Retriever puppy buyers in the Dallas and Fort Worth metro area.

A reputable Golden Retriever exhibitor/breeder should  always take the time to respond to your questions.  Please check with us for our show schedule and come visit with us at an AKC show, we'd love for you to meet our Goldens and watch them in the ring with our daughter Melissa.  Please visit her handling page through her link above, we are so proud of her!.  If a Golden Retriever exhibitor/breeder doesn't have the time to answer your Golden Retriever questions or a Golden Retriever website states that if someone doesn't get back with you to just assume there are no Golden Retriever puppies available, you may think twice if that is the type of Golden Retriever breeder that you want to have a relationship with for the life of your Golden Retriever puppy.

A reputable Golden breeder will follow the Code Of Ethics published by the Golden Retriever Club Of America (GRCA) and the American Kennel Club  Code Of Sportsmanship:

 http://www.grca.org/code.htm

 http://www.akc.org/pdfs/AKC_code_of_sportsmanship.pdf

Our Golden Retriever breeding program is of the utmost importance to us and our litters are planned according to what we here at Goldenwind Golden Retrievers are looking to produce as we breed primarily for ourselves and do not breed specifically to fulfill the public demand for Golden Retriever puppies.  One of the signs of a reputable Golden Retriever breeder is that they are striving to improve the Golden Retriever breed with each breeding and their intention should be to keep the best conformation prospects for themselves.  There is no question that 'quality' is more important than quantity just as health issues should not be sacrificed for only breeding with a certain 'circle' of breeders.  Over the years we have purchased Goldens and shipped in fresh chilled semen from other parts of the country rather than take the easy road and only breed/purchase dogs either mainly in Texas or related to dogs in Texas. 

Another sign of a reputable Golden Retriever breeder is to always provide guidance to those inquiring about Golden Retriever puppies and to offer lifetime advice to those who purchase their Golden Retriever puppies.  Please visit our Education And Health page for more information on reputable breeders: http://www.goldenwindgoldens.com/GR_Educ_health.htm

More information with regards to reputable breeders can be found through  The Golden Retriever Club Of America published guidelines by using the following link:  http://www.grca.org/acquiring.htm

An article authored by Ellen in the 1990's:

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What Is A Reputable Breeder:

A Reputable breeder is.... 

One who obtains health clearances on their bitch to include but not limited to OFA and Board Certified Heart and Eye clearances...

 

One who knows that the temperament of their breeding stock is such that a Golden Retriever should have: happy, outgoing & alert with the intelligence level that a good hunting dog should have; and that's just the tip of the iceberg with regards to health...

 

One who starts out their breeding program not necessarily with the first bitch they bought/bred but with one who SHOULD be bred... just because a dog/bitch has clearances does not mean they should be part of a breeding program... and a breeder clearly needs to recognize that just because it is their bitch doesn't mean they NEED to breed it... otherwise known as 'kennel blindness'...  one who possesses the clear vision to recognize the faults of their dogs... and to not breed ANY dog who possesses a disqualifying fault according to the breed standard...

One who breeds solely for themselves and not for anyone else...

 

One who does the breeding to IMPROVE upon the breed and not take a step backwards merely to have specific 'names' on their pups pedigrees as in breeding to the 'flavor of the month' so to speak...

 

One who is willing to take the time and effort to carefully select a stud dog who has the qualities that would compliment the bitch to be bred, regardless of where they may be located in the country...

 

One who knows the risk that they may or may not get a litter after spending alot of money to complete that breeding and accepts that risk but still goes ahead and does it because said pairing was done for the betterment of the breed....

 

One who realizes that a successful show record does not guarantee that those particular dogs will in essence 'throw themselves' in subsequent generations and one must not only look at the dogs themselves to be bred but also to the generations behind them, also taking into consideration the health clearances and longevity factors back there also.

 

One who interviews and cross checks references if they don't personally know perspective show/performance/field puppy buyers with regards to selling any puppies on full registration...

 

One who explains and is willing to educate pet buyers on why they may only buy pups on limited registration with spay/neuter contracts and have no problem turning down a buyer who they don't have the 'warm & fuzzies' about with regards to fulfilling that obligation... 

 

One who regardless of the fact that a buyer has the money and is willing and able to purchase the puppy, a reputable breeder WILL turn down that buyer even if it means holding on to a pup for an undetermined amount of time in order to find it the "right" home... and then once a buyer is determined to be a good home for one of their pups that the breeder is willing to spend the time to answer any and all questions that the puppy buyer may have not only before the pup leaves but especially AFTER it leaves which is sometimes when it needs us the most to help with the transition into a new home and with situations that a new home will need assistance and advice with, as trivial as it may seem to us, it is not to them!  And again, there is no time limit on this, as questions can come up for years from puppyhood through adulthood to their geriatric years and a breeder should ALWAYS be willing to listen and help!

 

One who at ANY TIME during the lifetime of a puppy that they bred is willing to take it back if a buyer is unable or unwilling to keep and/or care for that puppy... and who states in their contract that under no circumstances may the ownership of that puppy change without the express written consent of the breeder so that we know where our pups are at all times and to ensure a LONG HAPPY LIFE for them as we are responsible for their wellbeing their entire lives...

 

One who knows that our first and foremost responsibility as their breeder is to ensure that the puppies that they produce will have the quality of life and unconditional love that they deserve...

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 We are so fortunate to have met some wonderful people through the Golden Retriever clubs we are associated with and by exhibiting our dogs at AKC shows and have also formed close bonds with many of our puppy buyers over the years.   When you have a Goldenwind puppy, we welcome you into our 'Golden' family and want to hear all about your puppy's antics and have you send us pictures so we can watch them grow up right along with you. We look forward to all your correspondence over the years over what we hope will be many years.  We are so very blessed that our Goldens have given us the opportunity to have met such wonderful people that are now in our lives and we look forward to meeting new families such as yours.

Our Golden Retriever litters are raised in our kitchen/family room area where we spend most of our time with them. They are center stage in the middle of family life here at Goldenwind as that offers our Golden Retriever puppies optimum opportunities for socialization which is a necessity for Golden Retriever puppies at this stage of their life. When out of the whelping box (approx 3-4 weeks), the puppies are in our kitchen in a large approximately 8 x 8 playpen where the puppies can then not only hear everything, but the puppies then see everything around them as well! When our Golden Retriever puppies are ready for their new homes at approximately 8 weeks old, they have been exposed to most household situations that await them with their new families!  They're worth the wait!

Please feel free to contact us and ask us any questions that you may have about Golden Retrievers or Golden Retriever puppies as the first responsibility of a reputable Golden Retriever Breeder is to educate others about the Golden Retriever breed.   We do not have kennels or kennel runs, our dogs are house dogs.  The sport of showing Golden Retrievers has been a family activity here at Goldenwind since 1995 .

We do not do formal written questionnaire's, we want to get to know you on a 'personal' level  so if you see a Golden Retriever puppy or planned Golden Retriever breeding that you are interested in on our website, please call or email us.  Adding a Golden Retriever puppy to your family is like adopting a 'four legged child' so please consider that with the decision to purchase a Golden Retriever puppy,  you are making a life long commitment to your new Golden Retriever.  Reputable Golden Retriever breeders will take the time to speak with everyone who emails or calls in order to properly educate those inquirers in response to any question they may have about Golden Retrievers.  If a Golden Retriever breeder doesn't have the time to talk to prospective Golden Retriever puppy buyers before a planned litter is whelped, it would be our opinion that they also don't have the time to properly socialize their litters of Golden Retriever puppies after they are whelped as we feel that a properly socialized Golden Retriever litter is a 24/7 job.  Our Golden Retriever puppies and their prospective families are Priority ONE here at Goldenwind.

Goldenwind Golden Retrievers are very proud to be associated with a network of Texas Golden Retriever Exhibitors/Breeders in the DFW/North Texas area who  subscribe to the Codes Of Ethics referenced above.  That network includes Camoflage Golden Retrievers (DFWMGRC), Coralace Golden Retrievers (DFWMGRC), Dogwood Springs Golden Retrievers (ArkLaTex GRC), Mohrgold Golden Retrievers (DFWMGRC) and Slygo Golden Retrievers (formerly DFWMGRC), all of whom have titled and/or produced Golden Retrievers in one or more of the following venues: Conformation, GRCA Hall Of Fame, Obedience, Hunt/Field/WC, Agility, Rally, Certified Therapy Dog, CGC. 

***We are in no way affiliated with www.texasgoldenretrieverbreeders.net***

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