Gold Dog History: Ramblings

Coming soon: https://friendsofguisachan.org/main

https://golddoghistory.wordpress.com/2016/06/24/friends-of-guisachan-quiz/

A non-profit group has made the history of Golden Retrievers it’s business… https://friendsofguisachan.org/main/ STATUE UNVEILING The parade of more than 100 Golden owners and their Goldens w...

https://golddoghistory.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/a-good-source-for-a-great-breed/

The Tweed Water Spaniel is a mysterious breed. It is very probable that this was a water dog/retriever that resided and hunted along the Tweed River. I am inserting previous blog posts to revisit...

https://golddoghistory.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/tweed-water-spaniel-revisited/

There is no mention of the Tweed Water Spaniel in the Guisachan  stud book. There is a note on the cover page that was later added that reads: Tweed over the words Water Spaniel. When you read ...

https://golddoghistory.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/history-is-as-good-as-what-is-recorded/

There has been a rumor going around that Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks was not Lord Tweedmouth but rather Baron Tweedmouth. Well, the fact is that he was both and referred to as both. He was a part ...

https://golddoghistory.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/another-myth-busted/

I was reading through a few books from the 1800’s to get a better feel for the dogs and thinking that went into the creation of today’s retrievers. Well, clearly I have been doing this for a ...

https://golddoghistory.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/dogs-of-purpose/

…and hopefully back again! Can we return to something more practical? Cocker Spaniel in 1903: Cocker Spaniel? (Dust Mop!!!) today: Which one would you want as a working companion? Which one wou...

https://golddoghistory.wordpress.com/2014/03/07/old-to-new/

What is a breed? We humans want to classify everything in life in order to control it enough to examine and understand within our given abilities each item. In the case of dogs, breeds have gone ...

https://golddoghistory.wordpress.com/2014/02/16/525/

Title Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, Volume 35 Publisher W. B. Holland, 1899

https://golddoghistory.wordpress.com/2014/02/16/english-retriever/

Fetch and carry: a treatise on retrieving By Bernard Waters 1895 This book written just before the turn of the 20th century, is largely about how to train and hunt with a retrieving dog. The Ches...

https://golddoghistory.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/a-retrievers-purpose/