{"id":882453,"date":"2026-09-04T01:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T01:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/882453\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T01:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T01:28:19","slug":"golden-retrievers-to-gather-at-the-breeds-ancestral-highland-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/882453\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden retrievers to gather at the breed&#8217;s ancestral Highland home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A mass gathering of golden retrievers and their owners is to be held at the ancestral home of the breed in July 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The event will mark 160 years since the first golden retriever puppies were born at Guisachan House in Glen Affric, near Cannich, in the Highlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Meetings to celebrate the breed have been held in different formats by the Golden Retriever Club of Scotland since the late 1990s, with larger events taking place since 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A gathering held at Guisachan in 2023 <a data-ylk=\"slk:involved almost 500 dogs from 12 countries;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-65954415?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">involved almost 500 dogs from 12 countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Golden Retriever Club of Scotland said a date for the 2028 gathering would be announced later.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A close up of a golden retriever showing its neck and head. The dog is a golden colour, has its mouth open while it looks up to the right of the image.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"539\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/bbc_us_articles_995\/dc35b6f9e1f8a984e2b883629bf30d19.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s golden retrievers are descended from dogs bred in the Highlands [Getty Images]<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A golden retriever stands with its tongue out next its owner.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/bbc_us_articles_995\/820070075759a1355f57bee7475f017c.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The last event at Guisachan involved dogs from 12 countries [BBC]<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Golden retrievers were bred by aristocrat Sir Dudley Marjoribanks, who wanted a gun dog suited to Scottish Highland terrain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The first litter was born in 1868 to a Tweed water spaniel, a breed now extinct, and yellow wavy-coated retriever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The puppies were called Primrose, Cowslip and Crocus. Some histories of the breed report the litter having four pups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More than 40 years later in 1913, the golden retriever was officially recognised as a breed by The Kennel Club, the UK&#8217;s largest organisation concerned with dog health, welfare and training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Guisachan House had fallen into ruin by the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Four well-behaved golden retrievers sitting looking at their owner on a grassy area below the ruins of Guisachan House.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"718\" height=\"404\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/bbc_us_articles_995\/1bbb23065c38175ae158eeb30ae7f23e.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Guisachan is the ancestral home of the breed [BBC]<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A golden retriever sits looking at the camera on a grassy area below the ruins of Guisachan House.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"641\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/bbc_us_articles_995\/b6b443554380e1d331dba61cb67832f6.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Victorian mansion has been a ruin since the 1960s [BBC]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mass gathering of golden retrievers and their owners is to be held at the ancestral home of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13698,49,48,306185,306183,84,306184],"class_list":["post-882453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-bbc","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-guisachan","tag-guisachan-house","tag-health","tag-the-kennel-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}