GOLDEN RETRIEVER ROOTS
There are two versions which descibe the origin of the Golden Retriever.
One of the versions available, and perhaps the most naive about the possible origin of the Golden, is the tale that it would be the crossing of British dogs with a golden dog, brought by a Russian circus.
The more certain however is that the Golden Retriever was “developed” in Scotland, from around the 1850’s, by Lord Sir Dudley Majoribanks (Lord Tweedmouth), with the objective of obtaining a dog breed wild bird’s hunter, on land and water. References cited in the Book of Creation (which can be seen in the Kennel Club of London) show that the first yellow retriever resulted in a litter of dogs with black hair, bought by Lord Tweedmouth of a shoemaker.
The puppy Nous was born in June 1864 and was choosen the reproductive dog to led the breed. Using the matrix Belle, a tweed water spaniels dog breed (a small British retriever, which today has already extinct), Lord Tweedmouth found that the mating of a female yellow with a black dog would result in yellow puppies.
In this way, the breed was planned and developed. Its line of retrievers from 1868 to 1890, using various breeds, including the Flat-Coat, the Tweed Water Spaniel, the Labrador, Irish Setter and Bloodhound.
Copies of the first photos are in the British Museum.
In 1913, the Kennel Club of London, for the first time, separately recorded the name of retrievers (golden, yellow). In the United States, the race was recognized by the American Kennel Club in 1932.
