Our Golden Retriever puppies are now just over 3 weeks old. They are growing very quickly and we can see daily changes in their size and behaviour.
They are starting to be adventurous and explore their immediate surroundings. Interestingly even though the door to their room is open they do not dare to leave it … yet.
There is a lot of sniffing around, lots of paw showing, initial power plays and lots of squeaky barking.
They are also starting to eat food other than mum’s milk, which means they will start growing even faster.
Our Golden Retriever puppies are now two weeks old. They are growing very fast and are in excellent health. At two weeks a major development for puppies is the opening of the eyes and first very clumsy steps. The puppies are strong enough to explore space around them within 1 meter.
Mind you getting so far from the pack and mum means major drama, and once they realise they are too far major alarms are given – lots of puppy squealing. Some of them try to bark already and the biggest pups even mastered a form of growling.
They are so incredibly cute it is hard to leave them alone. I think their adorable looks and behaviours justify well the term “puppy love”.
Golden retrievers are known for their love of water. You just cannot keep them away. They love swimming and chasing ducks. This is all true unless you are a 4 month old golden retriever puppy. As you can see from this photograph he was less than impressed with water. He followed the bigger dogs into the water but love it? No way. You know that stuff is wet and cold and drips of the fur. Who said water is fun?
I got an early father’s day present this year – a 12 week old golden retriever boy puppy, which I called Gucio.
You may not realise but one of my most popular photographs in this gallery with 1000s of views every week is that of a girl golden retriever we got last year called Buttercup.
Here is a small scene from a park: a men and his dog – beautifully groomed golden retriever.
We have two golden retrievers but they are quite different in nature to the one in
photograph. Younger one is a girl of 10 months and she is so mischievous we repeat her
name so often that our parrot has learnt to call her too.
