Southern Ridge Golden Retrievers

08/17/2022

this time next week we will be on puppy watch! 🐶

08/15/2022

Litter Announcement! 🐾

We are excited to announce that Watson and Maybre are expecting puppies this month! We are located in Rocky Mount, VA. Both parents are AKC registered and genetically health tested through Embark Vet to ensure that none of their offspring are affected by any genetic conditions common in Golden Retrievers. Puppies will come with AKC papers (limited registration and full registration available), vet records, and a take-home goodie bag. 💚

An application must be completed and approved to be added to the waiting list. Message us for a link to the application and for any additional puppy info or questions! Thank you 😊

07/26/2022

Yes, this is true! 🐾❤️I feel like I have really been blessed with excellent puppy parents and other breeders I have worked with who have become true friends. I am very thankful!

01/29/2022

01/14/2022

our sweet mama 💗

12/31/2021

WHAT IF YOUR DOG COULD DOUBLE HER EXPECTED LIFESPAN?! 🦮🤩

For a breed that has an average lifespan of only 10 years, Augie doubled that living to 20 (just one month shy of her 21st birthday!). Believed to be the world’s oldest golden retriever, Augie is an example of the benefits of core longevity principles: staying active physically and socially throughout life (at 17, she spent an entire year exploring the country in an RV with her human and fur-family). 🚙🗺🐶

There is overwhelming research and evidence about how exercise can dramatically improve a dog’s health and life. The longevity power of keeping our dogs lean and giving them plenty of appropriate exercise shines through with Augie. When we interviewed her guardian Steve Hetterscheidt for The Forever Dog, he told us Augie swam an hour to an hour-and-a-half every day (pictured here at 16 🤯), and was often eager to continue retrieving the ball even after the younger dogs were tired. And despite slowing down as she got older, she continued moving and loved daily walks with her pack around their property. 👫🐕🦮🐕 As we explain in the book, giving older dogs plenty of time to smell outside every day is critical not only for exercise but for their enrichment and engagement with the world. Steve perceptively told us, “I always thought something that really contributed to her longevity was she exercised so much.”

🐾You can read more about Augie and other long-lived dogs in our book The Forever Dog, and find out what these dogs and the latest science teach us about increasing the health and life span of our pups. 👉 ForeverDog.com

12/09/2021

11/18/2021

Welcoming our newest member to our family and breeding program - Coasta! 💗🌴

10/20/2021

Watson Riggs ❤️

10/10/2021

🐾😍

09/11/2021

waiting…

09/07/2021

These two are absolute water bugs! 🥰

08/10/2021

We will have a litter of health tested (parents) AKC registered Golden Retrievers around the beginning of 2022. If you would like to be added to our waitlist free of charge, please send me a message! 🙂

08/02/2021

bath day for our maybre girl 💜

05/17/2021

everyone wish our mama a very happy birthday! 🥰

02/07/2021

Definitely our dogs!

02/01/2021

winter fun ❄️💙

12/03/2020

they never want to come in 🤣

11/26/2020

Happy Holiday’s from our sweet babies! I can’t wait to grow our golden family next year!

11/22/2020

❤️🍗🥧

11/15/2020

All smiles here! 🖤

11/07/2020

Happy birthday to our boy, Watson 🧡

10/25/2020

These two are growing bigger everyday!

10/20/2020

Story of our life 🤣

10/04/2020

These two are inseparable! ❣️

09/21/2020

This screenshot was taken from another group - I want to advise people that if a breeder or person says they need to do any “Transfer” of paperwork, and makes excuses when you say you can come see them or ask if they can send videos/facetime, then they may be a scammer. Also, beware of people saying they will ship the puppy to you. They look at your profile and see where you are from, and then say they are somewhere across the country so you can do the “shipping” option. All are signs of scammers!

09/21/2020

Future owners beware the “CKC” Continental Kennel Club registration! Do not confused this club with the other official CKC, “the Canadian Kennel Club,” which is perfectly fine. The “Continental Kennel Club”, which is the one most people are referring to if they're American, is a registry almost entirely used by puppy mills and irresponsible breeders. Do your research!

http://www.showbreeders.org/~Pnderosa/ckc.html?fbclid=IwAR08UZ4ddyxX5Ib63uyr0q12-N_0-CwJkhilI3ui_Jl3hrou_Wurwj5t9zg

Puppy buyers beware of breeders who just say their dogs and puppies are "Registered". It is your responsibility to ASK if they are AKC registered as some breeders will not tell you that their dogs and puppies are registered with the CKC (Continental Kennel Club). It is your responsibility to ask que...

09/13/2020

Handsome boy!

09/10/2020

What is four more, right?

09/05/2020

Our boy Watson is a big brother!

**All Puppies Are Reserved**

09/02/2020

anyone else? 🐕 🤣

08/25/2020

this boy is a stud 😍

08/19/2020

This is so true!

08/18/2020

Unless you’re feeding them, cleaning them, or paying their vets bills, it’s none of your business. 🤣

08/11/2020

Rules For Owning a Gun Dog

1. Spend time with them each day. You are their everything.

2. Don’t hide your excitement, let them see the kid in you.

3. Your expectations of a bird dog are high but their expectations of an owner are higher.

4. Don’t sleep on it take them to the vet.

5. Go hunting with them at least one time just the two of you.

6. Tell your new friends about your old dogs.

7. Their falses aren’t the only ones in the field.

8. Judge your hunting friends by how they treat their dogs.

9. Always stop to pet them.

10. Stop walking, sit down you will see how much they love you. Enjoy it.

11. Treat puppies like puppies and treat your 12 year old like he still is one.

12. Know when to retire them and give them everything they want. They gave you everything they had.

13. Have patience when they are hard of hearing...it’s the birds fault.

14. Show your boys that there’s reasons to be gentle in this world. Bird dogs are just one of them.

15. You helped her down the stairs when she was young now help her up them when she is old.

16. Take the picture every single damn time. It’s worth it.

17. Enjoy their determination even when it’s not after a bird.

18. When it’s time to say goodbye don’t leave his side. Hold him. He knows what’s happening and he’s happy you are with him.

19. Remember them, visit the places that made you both so happy. Think about her while you stop walking and sit down with her daughter on an October afternoon.

20. Understand that you can not fill the hole they left in your heart but remember them and they will be with you every step of the way.

(Someone made this list and its making the rounds with everyone’s own dog. Wish I could give credit where credit is due, but too good not share. I found this under Sky Goldens FB Page.)

08/11/2020

our favorite duo 🖤

08/08/2020

‼️ Awareness of hazardous cyanobacterial blooms or blue green algae has become more widespread as it is dangerous to people and pets!

☀️ As summer heat warms the lakes the algae bloom and gives rise to the harmful bacteria.

‼️ Do not allow pets or livestock to drink water near the bloom, eat bloom material, or lick fur after contact.

👨‍⚕️ 👩‍⚕️ If pets, or livestock come into contact with a bloom, rinse off with clean water as soon as possible and contact a your veterinarian.

307-696-2525

07/29/2020

Truth!! 🤣

07/20/2020

watson & maybre said it is hot today! ☀️