{"id":759228,"date":"2026-09-04T02:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/759228\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T02:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:32:15","slug":"golden-retrievers-to-gather-at-the-breeds-ancestral-highland-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/759228\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden retrievers to gather at the breed&#8217;s ancestral Highland home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Golden retrievers were bred by aristocrat Sir Dudley Marjoribanks, who wanted a gun dog suited to Scottish Highland terrain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The puppies were called Primrose, Cowslip and Crocus. Some histories of the breed report the litter having four pups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Guisachan House had fallen into ruin by the 1960s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golden retrievers were bred by aristocrat Sir Dudley Marjoribanks, who wanted a gun dog suited to Scottish Highland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-759228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}