PrincessBonnie Golden Retrievers

24/09/2025

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18/09/2025

Please take care when researching and buying puppies.

This germ was a registered breeder with Dogs WA, an esteemed organisation that dedicate their resources to ensuring breed standards are maintained, dogs are bred for temperament and in good health. This one slipped through the cracks, and so can others.

Always seek references from previous puppy families and do your due diligence 💛

12/09/2025

Would any of my NSW friends be interested in a guardian puppy?

Within 4 hours of Sydney and willing to potentially travel to me/vice versa.

What is a guardian home? A family responsible for raising a female puppy (with no initial puppy purchasing cost) which remains in my ownership and returns to my care for mating and whelping future litters.

A "guardian home puppy" refers to a young dog placed in a family's care to live as a beloved pet, but is also part of a breeder's program to become a future breeding dog.

The guardian family is responsible for the dog's regular pet care, including food, grooming, training, and routine vet visits. The breeder retains ownership for breeding purposes and covers breeding-related costs, such as health testing and transport for mating. After completing its breeding career, the dog's full ownership is transferred to the guardian home.

Female guardian dog owners must notify at the onset of a heat cycle whether we are breeding the dog or not that cycle. The dog must not have any contact with entire males.

Picture of Baloo for attention 💛

11/09/2025

Tick season has started 😞

Get onto your pet’s tick prevention if you haven’t already

10/09/2025

GOLDEN RETRIEVER HEALTH STATUS UPDATE by Dr. Karen Hedberg BVSc

I would like to congratulate all the Golden Retriever breeders for their constant and ongoing efforts to improve the overall health of their breed. When I started in this area some 30-40 years ago, the breed average for hips was over 22 (probably closer to 25 relative to current scoring), there was no elbow screening for the breed and any heart and eye testing was negligible. It takes considerable time to shift entire an breed’s averages for a disease, but this is made much more effective once LRL’s (litter registration limitations) are applied.

Hips - LRL first applied after 2002
Despite the hip scheme having been slightly tightened up over time, the current overall breed average for hips as of 2024 is sitting at 9.8, well down from 2016 where it was 13.75. The current median is sitting at 8.0 - this is a strong indicator of where the breed average is heading. Any breed with a hip average that is under 10 is a very healthy place for a breed to be.

Elbows - LRL first applied 2020.
The overall % with a result greater than normal is sitting at 17.9%, down from a 25% incidence in 2016. Currently for 2024, the average is sitting at 16.46%, slightly up from 2023. Elbow dysplasia is an insidious disease, causing much pain to both affected dogs and owners as well as considerable costs.
Breeding from Grade 3 dogs should not occur and Grade 2 dogs should only be used with great care to unaffected partners if absolutely needed. With German Shepherd Dogs when we have removed the Grade 2 dogs in 2016, this was highly significant in lowering our affected levels of 42% in 2016 down to 7.4% affected in 2024. The Rottweiler breeders have not been as vigilant with the 2016 figure being 57.18% having only dropped to 41.67% in 2024.

Eyes - overall the eye results are going well with most conditions having an incidence of less than 1.5%.

Hearts - have not been able to get any current stats, but from a personal veterinary perspective, the incidence is relatively low. But it is an area that needs constant attention such that parents should be tested prior to breeding.
Breeding healthy dogs requires constant ongoing commitment in many areas, not all directly disease related. Areas such as temperament, testicles, teeth etc are also selected for. In these areas, again, the results are excellent with few problems in these areas.

Dr. Karen Hedberg BVSc
Dogs Australia CHWC Chairperson
(Canine Health and Welfare Committee)

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26/08/2025

"It's official" 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
"Bonnie is Pregnant"
Confirmed via Ultrasound this morning.
Bonnie and Chase's puppies are due Earthside around the 27th of September, and will be ready for there new homes around the 22nd of November.
(Picture on the way home. Patiently awaiting her puppachino)

17/08/2025

A new study in JAVMA finds a correlation between early spay/neuter (3 - 6 months) with overweight/obesity in some large breeds, especially Labradors and golden retrievers of both s*xes. Small breeds were not affected, and the results varied by s*x in boxers, bulldogs and German Shepherds.

Food for thought, hey? Kudos to the authors for doing this study; it is just one study, always reason for caution, but it’s a large sample size (over 200,000 dogs) and deserves attention.

Read the full study here:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40367978

04/07/2025

Happy birthday baby dog 💛 you’re still just as cheeky and loving as ever.

You definitely bring a level of chaos, noise and love to our home.

Thanks for always biting my feet to make me laugh after a hard day, sharing the bed at night to keep me warm and always being the first to greet me when I come home.

I love you Willow Dog 💛

25/06/2025

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Hi friends, Flo here.

Behind every pet you love, there’s often a vet who’s working long, exhausting hours — physically, mentally, and emotionally drained — just trying to keep going.

Vets are among the lowest-paid university-qualified professionals in Australia. Despite the years of study and the huge responsibility they carry, they’re often accused of “only doing it for the money.” They’re expected to be on-call after hours. Expected to work overtime, no matter the cost to their own wellbeing.

And all too often, they’re abused by clients who are angry, frustrated, or heartbroken — because vets don’t just treat animals. They absorb your pain, your guilt, your grief. Every single day. Compassion fatigue is real. And it’s driving good people out of the profession altogether… or worse, toward a far more permanent decision.

Let’s be brutally honest for a moment:
In Australia, a vet dies by su***de every 12 weeks.
Vets are four times more likely to take their own life compared to the general population.

Let that sink in.

This post is simply a gentle reminder:
Vets are human.
They are mothers and fathers, partners, friends, and community members. They deserve time and space outside of work to rest, to live, to just be. Because their job isn’t just demanding — it’s emotionally exhausting.

Let me give you an example-

Like so many vets in small communities, Shae is approached again and again by people asking questions about their pets on her day off.
• While she was having a horse-riding lesson.
• While she was shopping.
• At school drop-off and pick-up.
• And again at soccer training with her girls.

And while each person may have thought, “Shae won’t mind — it’s just a quick question,” they don’t realise that a dozen other people had done the exact same thing that day. By the end of it, Shae said she feels “drained, exploited, and used up.” Her words.

Sadly, this isn’t an isolated experience — it’s the daily reality for many, if not most, vets, especially in small communities. It’s not that they don’t care. They do — deeply.
But if we don’t give our vets the grace to step away and recharge, we risk losing them.
Because the truth is — you can’t pour from an empty cup. And too many of our vets are running on empty.

Please, consider this the next time you see your vet out and about. Respect their time off. Give them space to refill their cup. They’re doing their absolute best in a profession that demands everything of them, and often gives so little in return.

Please……Be kind. Respect their time. Appreciate their care. And never forget that behind your healthy pet is a human who deserves compassion too.

And if this message resonates with you, please share it. It matters — more than you know.

Love and licks
Flo - Latin for Be Kind

23/06/2025

Excellent news! Hoping this will make it easier for those doing the wrong thing to be penalised and stopped.

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20/06/2025

How special for Juniper and Paige! Long time breeder sharing her current litter with another 3 pups in need 💛🖤

13/05/2025

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It’s been a big morning here
Hope and Stitches puppies
Female puppies still looking for new 🏠
Ready to leave from this Sunday 18th May
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