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[quote=Anonymous]My golden also made it to 12, although had cancer at 8.  It's pretty common for larger dogs (and really, all purebreds).  A good breeder will give you health clearances -- you can definitely ask how old the parents are, how old the grandparents are (or how old at death), etc.  You should also get hip clearances on the parents for any golden. (The AKC has a rule that a golden should not be bred unless its hip tightness is above-average for the breed -- that's to gradually increase the hip strength of the breed overall.)

Golden are pretty much the perfect dog, if you don't mind the shedding.  But I'm dog allergic, and the shedding never bothered me, for whatever reason.  Maybe it's a lot of hair but not a lot of dander?

If you want a rescue, check out grreat.org.  They are basically the only golden-dedicated rescue in this area.  The dogs that are good with kids and under the age of 10 go really fast.  Not a lot of people give up goldens.  (There was a bigger supply a couple of years ago, when the combination of the foreclosure crisis and the heavy foreign deployment of military meant that there were a lot of loving families that had to find new homes for dogs that they loved.)

You should do training early and often.  Goldens are SUPER trainable -- they love to please and are usually A+ students in obedience classes.  But if you don't train them, they pull on leashes, jump up on guests, chew on toys that don't belong to them, etc.[/quote]

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