How our Mini Golden's came to be

I have been getting a lot of great questions about how and why we are mixing the Miniature Golden Retriever. Here at Taylormade we started with the Miniature Golden Retriever being a mix of Cocker Spaniel and Golden Retriever. This started all the way back in 1989 when I was 10-years-old with a passion for dogs. We bred our little Golden Retriever Cocker mix dog, I named Muffin Lacey or Muffy for short. My dad got her for me when we lived in Kansas. Our family fell in love with this dog! She was so sweet intelligent, loyal, adorable, a perfect medium size, and wonderful family dog. My grandparents wanted a puppy, and my friends, and neighbors wanted one too. She had all the wonderful traits and look of a Golden Retriever except smaller size and didn’t shed as much! My parents supported my passion to raise puppies so that our friends and family could have a puppy for their family. We bred Muffy to another Golden Retriever Mix and also a Cocker Spaniel name Mitch. My grandparents kept two puppies Rambo and Josh, and We kept one of her puppy’s and name her Buffy haha!

Today Muffy would be considered a Golden Cocker Retriever by the International Designer Canine Registry (IDCR). We love the Golden Cocker Retrievers and... We also wanted a Registered Miniature Golden Retriever as well and the IDCR only considers a Miniature Golden Retriever a cross between a Golden Retriever, a Cocker Spaniel, and a Poodle. To Create a registered Miniature Golden Retriever we needed the 3 way mix, like Mia here. Mia has taken us 4 years to produce!

The Interesting thing is that in the beginning of creating this breed the puppies do not always take on the Golden Retriever look like Mia. Some puppies have more of the Goldendoodle look. Coop and Einstien pictured below are from the same litter. You can see that Coop (pictured on the right) has taken on more of the Golden Retriever look and Einstien (pictured on the left) has taken on more of the Goldendoodle look. Both puppies are exceptionally cute! We are working to create only the Golden Retriever look with the smaller size and less shedding. We have found that this takes many years and we and we are having lots of exciting success!

Why is it optimal to mix these three breeds for the Miniature Golden Retriever?

1. From my experience breeding these mixes are that the it's a wonderful marriage of 3 of the best breeds.

2. A beautiful, classy, kind Golden Retriever with a calmer dog.

3. The cocker Spaniel breeds the smaller size into the dog and reduced shedding. I have also seen a reduction in the extended puppy period often associated with Golden Retrievers. The extended puppy period is a personality trait some Golden Retrievers have where they act like a puppy for the first 2 years, chewing on things, hyper behavior, and a little difficulty training.

4. The Miniature poodle brings down the size, and increases the intelligence, and reduces the shedding.

This creates a wonderful medium sized dog, that is smart and easy to train, sheds less, or not at all, perfection right?

How is the Miniature Golden produced?

The miniature Golden Retriever is a designer breed and we use modern technologies, DNA analysis, experts to help us create this wonderful, rare breed.

It has taken many years and expense to produce our Miniature Golden Retrievers. Here we have our Purebred Golden Retriever undergoing a Transcervical Insemination which is one of the steps we have taken to produce our Miniature Golden Retriever lines.

Updated July 1st, 2020

These lines have produced our own Mellie and she is a gorgeous English Cream colored Miniature Golden Retriever.

Here is Pinkerton’s son Kona and his owner Mallory. She was one of the most AMAZING people I have ever known. She is the author of “Salt In My Soul” founder of Lunges4Lungs a fundraiser for cystic fibrosis transplant research. Tragically she was released from this life too soon due to complications from Cystic Fibrosis. We will always remember and be inspired by her love and happiness. We are so happy Kona could serve her in any way possible during her short time on this earth. Our hearts and prayers go out to her wonderful family. 

To Participate in her cause go to:

https://lunges4lungs.org/