Nothing demonstrates a Golden Retriever’s natural affinity for retrieving stuff than this video. In it an adorable and very sweet looking Retriever is on a mission to find her favorite teddy bear! Her mom took the stuffed bear to clean it and stuck it in the washing machine.
Knowing how much her dog loves the plushy toy, mom explained that “We set up a little sting operation to see if we could catch her on camera stealing it out of the washing machine…” One hidden camera shows the sneaky dog entering the laundry room, whereupon she immediately catches sight of her teddy bear in the front loading washer.
Tail wagging, she heads right on over to the machine and after a quick look about she sticks her head in and grabs the bear with her teeth. A second camera mounted inside the machine records the adorable moment, giving us a clear shot of the action. Mission accomplished, the dog rescued her favorite teddy and now it’s back in her loving paws!
The video shows that this Golden Retriever certainly lives up to her name, as the dogs were originally bred in the mid 19th century to find and recover game birds and waterfowl. She went straight for her teddy bear and scooped it out of the washer. It’s kind of like the modern day urban equivalent of getting a bird out of a pond!
While she didn’t get wet, she probably wouldn’t have been bothered if she had. Retrieving activities required the dogs to jump into all sorts of marshes, streams, and other bodies of water so they had to be easily trainable and couldn’t hesitate to get wet. Over the years the breed has become well known for their love of water, and with their naturally water-repellent coats, they are more than built for it.
Golden Retrievers are awesome companions and make wonderful family pets. They are sweet, loyal, trainable and even-tempered dogs who are perfect for families with young children. Those traits, along with their intelligence, also makes them excellent service dogs, especially for the blind. The list goes on and on and there are so many other great qualities about this breed.
One that stands out is their instinctive ability to find and recover items, like their favorite teddy bears and plushy toys!
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