Golden Retriever Doesn’t Miss A Chance To Show Off Skills

Apr 16, 2020 by apost team

If you want to get a warm feeling in these dreadful times when the news is all “gloom and doom,” your heart will get an uplift if you view this adorable video where a golden retriever actually “retrieves” and lives up to its breed, which is loyal to its family, reliable, personable, friendly, and great as a working dog!

This dog's idea of “working” is to wait patiently by the family mailbox on the side of the road until it sees the white postal truck with the red and blue stripes, and then it gets all excited. You would think that it was an ice-cream truck with cool and tasty treats!

Before the lady delivering the mail even has a chance to put mail in a neighbor’s mailbox, the dog trots over with much enthusiasm and a wagging tail. The mail lady inside is used to the daily routine, laughs, and hands the mail to the waiting “retriever,” who dutifully takes the mail inside the home as if it has accomplished a wonderful job.

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The golden retriever breed has always excelled at tracking, retrieving game for hunters, sniffing out contraband for their law enforcement partners, and are often used as seeing-eye dogs to help blind people navigate. They are also great around kids and want to be involved and help out their owners in any possible way.

This featured pup certainly defies the stereotype that dogs bark angrily at workers who deliver mail, and that is definitely NOT the case here. It seems to realize that a mail person is important even in these days of so much interaction with family and friends occurring online. There are still old-fashioned “pen pals” that adore getting a handwritten letter that is perhaps decorated with stickers or painted flowers. Those treasures can be saved “forever” and taken out to read again and be enjoyed as the letter writer is thought about with love.

Do you know of a dog like this? If so, please give those details to us so we can give our readers other chances to warm their hearts and appreciate what some of our treasured canines have the skills and desires to show what they are capable of in the special ways that they convey their love and talents.