Southern Ohio Golden Retriever Puppies Ready Early Summer 2010

Genuine Goldens

"Authentic Golden Retrievers of a great vitality, temperament, and apperance"

Visitors since

October 12, 2008

Genuine Golden Puppies

Available Puppies

We do not have any puppies available at this time. Please check the future litter section below to see when we will have more puppies available.

Future Litters

Our next breeding is planned for winter 2010* with Rylee and Gunner+. Puppies will be born in spring 2010*, and will be ready for their new homes in early summer 2010*. The puppies will be mostly light golden in color (possibly some medium golden), have straight to wavy hair, and will weigh about 80 pounds as adults. They will have large feet and blocky heads with a short muzzle. Of course, they will have a GREAT GOLDEN TEMPERAMENT! These puppies are suitable for most any family/living environment. Price will be $600. View the pedigree for this upcoming litter!

*All breeding/whelping dates are approximate. Dates are based on prior heat cycles and breeding dates, as only mother nature knows when everything will take place.

+We sometimes may have to use an alternate male due to unforeseen circumstances.

To view pictures of past Genuine Golden puppies, choose a link below:

Rylee X Mason 2008 puppies

Sadie X Gunner 2009 puppies

How We Raise Our Puppies

We are devoted to raising healthy, happy, and well-socialized puppies. Puppy care begins long before the puppies are even born. Pregnant mommy dogs are spoiled, eating puppy food and daily vitamins to nourish themselves and their growing litter inside them. Mommies move inside the house the week before they are due to give birth, to get accustomed to the whelping box. We also clear our calendar, and rarely leave the house for more than an hour or so at a time. When the big day approaches, we post online when the mommy is in labor and how she is progressing. We also try to post pictures and updates as soon as the new litter has arrived and everyone has settled down.

Each puppy is hand delivered. While the mother does most of the work, we help tear open the amniotic sacs, then suction fluid from the puppy's nose and mouth. We then let the mommy lick and stimulate the new puppy before helping it latch on to a teat for its first meal. The puppy is then given its own color-coded collar. The puppy's weight is then recorded. The collars and scales are our two most important tools. The collars help identify each individual puppy. By weighing the puppies daily, we know which puppies are growing well, and which puppies need some help (by the form of nursing management or supplemental bottle feedings). The puppies are weighed daily like this until they are three weeks old. When they hit the three week mark, we consider them "out of the woods" and only weigh them weekly thereafter. The collars are also extremely helpful for puppy selection. We name each puppy according to it's collar. For example, a male puppy with a blue collar will be "Mr. Blue" and a female with a pink color becomes "Miss Pink". Of course, you may select your new puppy's name. We always notice personalities that develop, and can associate them with each individual puppy (Miss Purple is a little shy, while Mr. Yellow is an escape artist).

Socialization begins early on. The first form of socialization is simply handling the puppies to weigh them or while changing bedding. Every week they have their tiny, sharp nails trimmed. This is done for the comfort of the mommy dog (sharp nails scratch and damage teats), but also is a great socialization tool, as puppies are accustomed to having tails trimmed by the time they go to their new homes. Around two and a half weeks of age, socialization then grows into playing with each other and their mother. We allow them to walk around on different surfaces in our home (carpet, linolium, etc) and they are used to household sounds like the vacuum cleaner, television, washer, dryer, and of course playing children. At three weeks old, puppies are moved out of the whelping box and into an outside kennel. This gives the puppies more room to play and move around. Puppies are not restricted to the kennels, as they are let out numerous times of the day for play and socialization. They get used to outdoor sights and sounds like farm animals and lawn mowers.

Puppies begin to eat moisten puppy food at three weeks of age. This first food is essentially a "mush". We gradually lessen the amount of liquid added to the food. When puppies are ready to go to their new homes at seven weeks of age, they are eating their puppy food dry. The weaning process starts at four and half weeks old. Puppies are completely weaned off of their mother's milk at six weeks of age and start receiving a daily vitamin in addition to their puppy food. Puppies are de-wormed every two weeks and will receive their first puppy vaccination at six weeks.

We know how exciting it is to get a new puppy. We also know how frustrating it is when you want your puppy NOW and not when it is seven weeks old. To compensate for this, we take pictures, and lots of them! We take pictures and post them on the website weekly. At two weeks of age, we start taking individual puppy pictures. This helps you get to know the puppies and you can continue to watch them grow and change online until he or she is ready to go home with you at seven weeks of age.

Genuine Goldens Puppy Package

When you purchase a puppy from Genuine Goldens, you are buying more than just a puppy, you get a complete package deal. Each new puppy owner also receives:

Health/Vaccination record

72-hour health guarantee

AKC Limited Registration application

Access to our online Genuine Goldens Puppy Manual

Information on the Golden Retriever Breed

Copies of your puppy’s parents’ pedigrees, health clearances, and awards or honors

Sample of puppy food to get you started

SUPPORT FOR THE LIFETIME OF YOUR PUPPY. We’re here to help you with anything you may have questions about, from housetraining to grooming and every aspect in between. If for any reason you are unable to keep your puppy, no matter what the age or circumstance, you can return it to Genuine Goldens. We will happily re-home or even keep your dog. We brought these dogs into the world, and the last thing we want is for them to end up in a shelter somewhere.

Health Guarantee

We offer a 72-hour health guarantee against life-threatening illnesses on our puppies. This means you must take your puppy to see a licensed veterinarian within 72 hours after you take it home. If your veterinarian finds any communicable diseases or congenital disorders, please contact us with the written statement from your veterinarian. You may return the puppy to Genuine Goldens for a replacement puppy of equal value (either from the same litter or from a future litter) or for a full refund of the puppy purchase price. You will be responsible for paying the veterinarian bills from the initial visit.

Registration

Our puppies are sold with AKC Limited Registration. This means that your dog will be registered with the AKC under a spay/neuter contract, meaning the dog must be spayed or neutered and cannot be bred or be shown in AKC Conformation events. Your dog will be eligible for all other AKC events such as Obedience, Agility, Rally, etc. If you do breed an AKC Limited Registration dog, the puppies will not be able to be registered AT ALL with the AKC. Please contact us if you are interested in a Full AKC registration Golden Retriever puppy.

Reserving a Puppy

You can be placed on our Puppy Waiting List to guarantee yourself a puppy from a specific litter. Reservations will not be accepted until all puppies have been born. A $100.00 non-refundable deposit will reserve a puppy for you. This $100.00 will be deducted from the total price of your puppy. If you have reserved a puppy but have not picked up your puppy by the time it is eight weeks old, you will lose your $100.00 deposit and the puppy will be sold to another family (unless prior arrangements have been made). In the event that you will not be able to pick up your puppy before eight weeks of age, a boarding fee of $10.00 per day will be charged for keeping your puppy. This is to cover additional costs of boarding, food, veterinary expenses, socialization, and training.

In the event that I cannot provide you with a puppy that you reserved (due to puppy deaths or small litters), your reservation will be moved to the next available litter. NO REFUNDS WILL BE GIVEN ON DEPOSITS. In the event of a small litter size, those who placed deposits first will have the right to choose from these puppies. Those at the end of the list will have their reservations moved to the next available litter. For example, if there eight people on the waiting list, and I only have five available puppies, the last three people on the list will be moved to the next litter's reservation list.

Selection Order

Selection of puppies will be determined by the order in which deposits are received. The first to reserve a male will get first pick of the males, and so forth. We reserve the right to pick of the litter if we wish. Individual puppy pictures will be placed online to view beginning at two weeks of age and updated weekly. Puppies will be picked out at approximately seven weeks of age, and may go home the same day. You will be appointed a time to come and select your puppy and take it home. Puppy pick out day is almost always the Saturday closest to seven weeks of age mark. Those first on the reservation list will have the earliest appointments starting at 9:00am. If you are unable to come at the appointed time, you will bumped down on the selection order list and others will be allowed to pick their puppies before you.

Shipping a Genuine Golden Puppy

Genuine Golden puppies are able to be shipped to the continental United States starting at eight weeks of age. Shipping will cost an additional fee. Please contact us for a shipping quote. Your puppy will first visit our veterinarian to receive a full health exam and certificate of health. We will make all flight arrangements. Your puppy will fly in a travel crate, which is yours to keep. We must receive your shipping fee and the remainder of you puppy balance at least two weeks before your puppy's flight date. Puppies do great at flying. They really don’t know the difference between flying and riding in a car. We ask that you are at the airport to pick up your puppy before the flight lands and to collect your puppy as soon as possible. Depending on the distance your puppy has traveled, it may have been in the crate for several hours. As soon as you pick up your puppy, we would like a phone call so that we know that it arrived safely.

"We lost our Golden of 17 years in Nov07. I thought I would never be able to get another Golden again, till we met Ginger (aka Miss Mint). I will tell you Lyndsey and her Family socialized the Puppies so they were more then ready for placement. I am very impressed and would and will recommend Genuine Golden to anyone looking for a great Golden Retriever. We also have the added joy of Ginger's Sister living close by, our Daughter and Son-in-law purchased Cassi (aka Miss Yellow). We have had much fun watching them play. I am looking forward to entering the Obedience Ring again and we may even try Agility."

The Largent Family

Oregonia, Ohio