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The Golden Retriever Breed Standard


GENERAL APPEARANCE
Symmetrical, balanced, active, powerful level  mover, sound with kindly expression.

CHARACTERISTICS
Biddable, intelligent, and possessing natural  working ability.

TEMPERAMENT

Kindly, friendly and confident.
 
HEAD & SKULL
Balanced and well chiselled, skull broad  without coarseness; well set on neck; muzzle powerful, wide and deep.  Length of  foreface approximately equals length from well defined stop to occiput.  Nose preferably black.

EYES
Dark brown, set well apart, dark  rims.

EARS
Moderate size, set on approximate level with eyes.

MOUTH

Jaws strong, with a perfect, regular and  complete scissor bite, i.e. upper teeth closely overlapping lower teeth and set  square to the jaw.

NECK
Good length, clean and  muscular.

FOREQUARTERS
Forelegs straight with good bone, shoulders  well laid back, long in the blade with upper arm of equal length placing legs  well under body.  Elbows close  fitting.

BODY
Balanced, short-coupled, deep through heart.   Ribs deep, well sprung.  Level topline.

HINDQUARTERS
Loin and legs strong and muscular, good  second thighs, well bent stifles.  Hocks well let down, straight when viewed  from the rear, neither turning in nor out.  Cow-hocks are highly  undesirable.

FEET
Round and cat-like.

TAIL
Set on and carried level with back, reaching  to hocks, without curl at tip.

GAIT/MOVEMENT
Powerful with good drive.  Straight and true  in front and rear.  Stride long and free with no sign of hackney action in  front.

COAT

Flat or wavy with good feathering, dense  water-resisting undercoat.

COLOUR
Any shade of gold or cream, neither red nor  mahogany.  A few white hairs on chest only, permissible.

SIZE
Height at withers    
Dogs:             
56-61cm  (22-24in)

Bitches:       
51-56cm  (20-22in)

FAULTS
Any departure from the foregoing points  should be considered a fault and the seriousness with which the fault should be regarded should be in exact proportion to its degree.

NOTE
Male animals should have two apparently  normal testicles fully descended into the scrotum.

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