So, you want a Golden Retriever puppy, do you? If you’ve taken the time to do research on Golden Retriever information and think they can fit well into your life, than you can continue looking for Golden Retriever puppies for sale.

Unfortunately, this has lead to some Golden Retriever breeders breeding for quantity rather than quality. All puppies are cute, but in looking for Golden Retriever puppies for sale, you cannot buy the first one you see. A cute little puppy will grow up into a strong, energetic dog of about seventy pounds.

Don’t even think about getting Golden Retriever puppies for sale from websites that sell many breeds of puppies almost every day of the year or from pet stores. The many puppy mills around the country, where dogs are raised like battery hens, supply both places. Puppies produced by puppy mills are often not one hundred percent pure bred, have bad health conditions due to being inbred and are most likely to be hyperactive.

These puppy mills not only treat the adult breeding dogs very cruelly – often never taking them to see a vet in their short, miserable lives – but the puppies produced are usually sickly, mentally challenged troublemakers instead of good pets.

If this is your first dog, then you are advised to go to a breeder. You will have to be put on a waiting list until your puppy is born and weaned and you will pay a lot more, but you will also get a lot more. You get a limited contract, you get beginning training for your puppy, you get to meet the puppy’s parents and get to check out the health certificates of the parents. You also get a place to call for help after you pay for the puppy.

The best place you can go to find Golden Retriever puppies for sale is from an AKC licensed breeder. You can find them on the web, by going to dog shows, through classifieds in dog magazines or from personal recommendations by people you know with well-behaved Golden Retrievers. When looking online, ignore any site that has puppies 365 days of the year. That’s a puppy mill (or puppy broker) in disguise as a breeder.

Bringing home a Golden Retriever puppy is like bringing home another young child. They are messy, undisciplined and need training. They also require a lot more time than an adult dog.

Go to see the parents of your prospective puppy to see what kind of dogs they are – and what conditions they live in. Never buy a puppy you have never met.