Golden Retriever was originally cultivated for hunting. It is used for making killed birds (and out of the water) (English: to retrieve = back, bring back).
The breed today is known primarily by their balanced character, a good filing of foreign people and especially children. All retriever breeds characterized congenital property expressed fiksed to the people so that with proper training can raise up to obedience, so good that many other breeds that almost can not reach. His so-called "desire to please" may cause the viewer with the impression that the owner wishes to read from the eyes.
Ease with which it can keep connected with great intelligence, and capacity adjustments have led to this, the golden retriever, with its original purpose of hunting, today avrege often a guide for the blind and disabled persons, trailer for drugs and explosives as well as - that the family dog. In the case when the family dog, it is very important that the animal gets an obligation, a task that will be in the ideal case, recruit and physically and intellectually.
Are suitable for sports for dogs that are associated with nose and retrieval. If you satisfy his need for activity, golden retriever will be no problematic house dog. Is completely inappropriate for a permanent holding the narrow space. Needs its direct contact with people, and is not suitable as a watchdog and the like. Almost could not find the breed (even among dwarf breeds) that for these tasks was less appropriate than the golden retriever. As a result of the very house dogs because they are confidential, loyalty and love for children.

FCI standard - GOLDEN rETRIEVER