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Litter expected August 2009:
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AKC CH MAJOR PT'D Dogwoods Morningstar Miracle "Mack"
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PT'D Gracious Glds Love On The Rocks
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WELCOME TO GOLDENWIND GOLDEN RETRIEVERS!!!
(Located
just outside of Dallas/Plano Texas on 2.2 acres)
(Dallas/Fort Worth Metro Golden Retriever Rescue's biggest fund raiser!)
Goldenwind
Golden Retrievers are Golden Retriever Breeders
and Exhibitors of multiple AKC Champion, Obedience, Hunt/WC, Agility and Rally
titled Golden Retrievers and multiple Canadian Champions. We also have produced certified TDI
(Therapy) dogs. Most important of all we are Reputable Breeders in the
Dallas area who
welcome your questions about Golden Retrievers and look forward to the
opportunity to educate you on our wonderful breed.
Our Credentials & Affiliations:
Golden Retriever Club
Of America (GRCA): 1995 - present
Dallas-Ft. Worth Metro Golden Retriever Club
(DFWMGRC): 1995-2007 (12 years)
ArkLaTex Golden Retriever Club - 2007
-present - 'Founding Members'
www.arklatexgrc.org
Dallas/Fort Worth Metro
Golden Retriever Rescue -
www.rescuegoldens.org
Dallas/Fort Worth Metro
Golden Retriever Rescue Medical Coordinator (2009)
Texas Golden Retriever Breeders Public
Education Network -
www.texasgoldenbreeders.com
Alan was an
active Dallas-Ft. Worth Metro Golden Retriever Club (DFWMGRC) member having served on
the DFWMGRC Board Of Directors three times in the positions of DFWMGRC Vice President in 2000
and DFWMGRC Board Member At Large in 2004 and 2005. He had served
as DFWMGRC Specialty Show Chairman and Chief Ring Steward. Alan has
also served as the "Bench (Conformation) Committee Chair". Alan is one of
the founding members of the ArkLaTex Golden Retriever Club, serves on the
By-laws and Ethics Committees,
and had assisted with the writing of the club By-Laws. He is a
member and active volunteer of Dallas/Fort Worth Metro Golden Retriever
Rescue. In addition, Alan wrote the Dallas-Ft Worth Metro Golden
Retriever Club Member Column for the Golden Retriever News which is the
official publication of the Golden Retriever Club Of
America (GRCA) !!!
Ellen
was an active member with the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metro Golden Retriever Club having served on the DFWMGRC Puppy Referral Committee as a Puppy
Referral Volunteer for 10 of those years (1995-2005) . Ellen has been
an active member and volunteer of
Dallas/Fort Worth Metro Golden Retriever
Rescue (DFWMGRR) over the years. Based on her extensive knowledge of
health issues in the Golden Retriever, Ellen is currently DFWMGRR's Medical
Coordinator. Ellen
served on the Dallas/Fort Worth Metro Golden Retriever Rescue Board the
first year that Golden Retriever Rescue broke off from the Dallas-Ft. Worth
Metro Golden Retriever Club. Ellen has been
active in fundraising for Dallas/Fort Worth Metro Golden Retriever Rescue, to include the sales of
the "Recycle Love" Golden Retriever Rescue Tee shirts and raffle tickets to benefit
Golden Retriever Rescue. In Fall 2008, Ellen personally helped to
raise over $1000 in sponsorships and silent auction merchandise for the 14th
Annual Sporting Chance Golf Tournament of whose proceeds benefits
Dallas/Fort Worth Metro Golden Retriever Rescue. Ellen is one of the
founding members of the ArkLaTex Golden Retriever Club, serves on the
By-laws and Health/Education Committees, and had assisted with the writing of
the club By-laws. Ellen is currently serving on the ArkLaTex GRC Board
as Vice President for 2009.
We encourage
you to browse through our pages and know this Dallas Fort Worth area Golden Retriever
Breeder
website has led you to a Dallas Fort Worth area Golden Retriever
Breeder that has all the credentials you are looking for to help educate you
in any and all aspects of Golden Retriever ownership and one who will be available to you for the entire life of the newest
Golden Retriever member of your family. Goldenwind Golden Retrievers also offers
boarding and grooming services for our Golden Retriever puppy families in the
Dallas and
Fort Worth metro area.
These services are available to our Goldenwind Golden Retriever puppy families as
it offers a wonderful opportunity for both ourselves and our
puppy families to visit with each other over the lifetime of your Golden
Retriever puppy's life. We very much look forward to those visits and
cherish the time we spend with our 'grandpups' and our puppy's families can rest
assured while on their vacations that their beloved pet is well taken care
at 'home' as opposed to a kennel situation!
Why do
we not have a Golden Retriever puppy buyer questionnaire as opposed to other
sites you may have visited? We want to get to know you on a
"personal" basis by at first perhaps speaking on the phone and then
arranging a visit to our home, not through questions and answers on a piece
of paper. We believe that questionnaires are 'impersonal'. A
reputable Golden Retriever Breeder should always take the time to respond
to your questions. Please check with us for our show schedule
and come visit with us at an AKC show, we'd love for you to meet our Golden
Retrievers
and perhaps watch them in the ring with our daughter Melissa. Please visit
Melissa's
handling page through her link above, we are so proud of her! If a
Golden Retriever Breeder doesn't have the time to answer your
Golden Retriever questions or a Golden Retriever website states that if
someone doesn't get back with you to just assume there are no Golden
Retriever puppies available, you may think twice if that is the type of
Golden Retriever breeder that you want to have a relationship with for the
life of your Golden Retriever puppy.
A
reputable Golden Retriever Breeder will follow the Code Of Ethics published by the
Golden Retriever Club Of America (GRCA) and the American Kennel Club
Code Of Sportsmanship:
http://www.grca.org/thegrca/code.html
http://www.akc.org/pdfs/AKC_code_of_sportsmanship.pdf
It remains unclear as to why the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metro Golden
Retriever Club (DFWMGRC) did not consider an OFA Elbow clearance a
requirement for litter listings with the DFWMGRC Puppy Referral during the
years 2001 through 2007, considering the fact that the Golden Retriever Club
Of America’s (GRCA) Code Of Ethics (COE) was updated in May of 2001 to require an OFA Elbow clearance for breeding stock. The fact that the DFWMGRC did not
make this GRCA requirement a mandatory condition for listing litters with
the DFWMGRC Puppy Referral led a number of the DFWMGRC members/breeders to
believe that dogs whelped before May of 2001 were 'grandfathered' and did
not require an Elbow clearance. How very sad that a GRCA Member Club,
through their non-compliance of a GRCA required health clearance, allowed
their membership during the years of 2001-2007 to believe that the OFA
Elbow clearance was not required for breeding. The DFWMGRC discontinued its
Puppy Referral program in June, 2007. Their website currently states:
"DFWMGRC PUBLIC INFORMATION SERVICE DOES NOT REFER TO LITTERS OR
BREEDERS".
However, some DFWMGRC members continue to breed
without the GRCA required OFA Elbow clearance for both sire and dam.
Both the DFWMGRC website and a
private website comprised of a group of their members has an older version
of the GRCA Code Of Ethics
that does not reflect the *current* GRCA Code Of Ethics The current
GRCA Code of Ethics was revised 2/2008 which is in our opinion is more
strict than the former COE with regards to what is acceptable for health
clearances.
On the Club website, it
makes mention and warns prospective buyers that a breeder that does not
allow the buyer to interact with a dam or puppies of a 3+ weeks old litter
would be considered a red flag. It is our opinion based upon our
experience in breeding litters, that this is very irresponsible advice to
the prospective puppy buyer and does not consider the welfare of the dam
or the puppies. Until the puppies receive their first immunization
vaccine (6-7 weeks), their immunity to any diseases is totally dependent
on what they received from the initial milk within the first hours of life
called 'colostrum'. It is not uncommon for responsible
breeders to wait until puppies have received their first immunization
vaccine before allowing prospective puppy buyers to physically handle the
puppies. These actions are taken by responsible breeders as a safety
precaution for the puppies. The welfare of the puppies should be more
important to the responsible breeder than the sale of any puppies to
prospective buyers.
http://www.texasgoldenretrieverbreeders.com/GR_Educ.htm
Finding a reputable Golden Retriever breeder is not always an easy task. Honesty and
integrity are two of the most important attributes you must look for in a
Golden Retriever
breeder. Ethical and reputable Golden Retriever breeders will not advertise upcoming litters
without having OFA certifications on both the sire and the dam for Hips and
Elbows and they must also to able to produce Board Certified Heart and
current Eye
clearances.
There are also some Golden Retriever breeders out there that advertise on their website that
their dogs have *full* clearances when in fact, they do not. When
inquiring on an upcoming or current litter from any Golden Retriever breeder website, please ask for
the AKC name of the sire/dam and verify through
www.offa.org that
both
have OFA number for
Hips and Elbows and ask to see the Board Certified Heart and Eye clearances.
Accept no excuses for a Golden
Retriever breeder not
being able to produce those OFA and Board Certified documents. If a
breeder presents you with an OFA Cardiac Application with a normal
diagnosis from a 'general practitioner', that is not acceptable.
The diagnosis must come from a Board
Certified Cardiologist. A listing of the Texas Board Certified
Cardiologists can be found on our "Puppies"
page.
Our
Golden Retriever breeding program is of the utmost importance to us and our
litters are planned according to what we here at Goldenwind Golden
Retrievers are looking to produce as we breed primarily for ourselves and do
not breed to fulfill the public demand for Golden Retriever
puppies. One of the signs of a reputable Golden Retriever breeder is
that they are striving to improve the Golden Retriever breed with each
breeding and their intention should be to keep the best conformation
prospects for themselves. There is no question that 'quality' is more
important than quantity just as health issues should not be sacrificed for
only breeding with a certain 'circle' of breeders. Over the years we
have purchased Golden Retrievers and shipped in fresh chilled semen from other parts of
the country rather than take the easy road and only breed or purchase Golden
Retrievers
either mainly in Texas or related to dogs in Texas.
Another sign of a reputable Golden Retriever
breeder is to always provide guidance to those inquiring about Golden
Retriever puppies and to offer lifetime advice to those who purchase their
Golden Retriever puppies. Please visit our Education And Health page
for more information on reputable breeders:
http://www.goldenwindgoldens.com/GR_Educ_health.htm
More
information with regards to reputable breeders can be found through
The Golden Retriever Club Of America published guidelines by using the
following link:
http://www.grca.org/allabout/a_find.html
We are so fortunate to have
met some wonderful people through the Golden Retriever clubs we have been
associated with and by exhibiting our dogs at AKC
shows and have also formed close bonds with many of our Golden Retriever puppy
families. We
look forward to your correspondence over the years. We are so very
blessed that our Golden Retrievers have given us the opportunity to have met such
wonderful people that are now in our lives and we look forward to meeting
new families such as yours.
Please feel
free to contact us and ask us any questions that you may have about Golden
Retrievers or Golden Retriever puppies as the first responsibility of a
reputable Golden Retriever Breeder is to educate others about the Golden
Retriever breed. We do not have kennels or kennel runs, our dogs
are house dogs. The sport of showing Golden Retrievers has been a
family activity here at Goldenwind since 1995 . Golden Retrievers can
be wonderful family dogs whether you participate in AKC events or just want
a constant companion at your side.
While
we appreciate that many people have visited and enjoy our website, we are
less than pleased to see other Golden Retriever websites modeled after ours
with our personal opinions represented as other breeder’s philosophies.
In addition, with many
prospective Golden Retriever puppy buyers relying on the Internet in their
search for reputable breeders, there has also been an increase in the
misrepresentation of what a reputable Golden Retriever breeder should be. There are some
Golden Retriever breeder websites giving their opinions and stating ethics on what a
reputable Golden Retriever breeder should or should not be, when in fact, their own
recent practices
are in contradiction of those statements. Please
perform your research carefully during your search for a Golden Retriever
puppy. There are very talented webmasters on the Internet and a
beautiful website alone that 'appears' to say the right things is in no way
an indication of a responsible ethical breeder. Again, please do your research!!!
Goldenwind Golden Retrievers are very proud to be associated as friends with
a Network of Golden Retriever Exhibitors, Breeders,
and Golden Retriever Rescue Volunteers in the Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin,
and Houston areas. That Network includes
reputable Golden Retriever breeders and exhibitors of
whom have themselves titled, and/or produced Golden Retrievers titled in one or more of the following
venues:
Conformation, GRCA Show Dog Hall Of Fame, Obedience, Hunt/Field/WC, Agility, Rally,
Certified Therapy Dog, CGC. We are also proud of this Network's
dedication to Golden Retriever Public Education and Golden Retriever Rescue.
Ellen
& Alan Meyer
goldenwind@att.net
972-442-9723
We
are in no way affiliated with "texasgoldenretrieverbreeders.net"
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