Am. & Can CH Goldiva's Play N Hard To Get, "Gracie," our first American Champion bred by Goldiva Goldens as well as her mother Sophie. Gracie is our poster pup for Maine Cancer Foundation's Pink Tulip Project. We plant 1,000 pink tulips each fall as a fundraiser and help other gardeners in local communities set up their gardens too. October is National Cancer Awareness Month, please help Maine Cancer Foundation find a cure for cancer. Each spring we try to update the dog's photos with the tulips in bloom. After the blooms are spent, the bulbs are dug up and shared throughout our friends & neighbors and start up the fundraising each September for the next community volunteer planting. For more information or to start a garden in your city or to make a donation to our gardens, contact Maine Cancer Foundation at www.pinktulipproject.org

Welcome to Goldiva Goldens! Owned & operated by a mother/daughter team since 2000 in both of our homes just 6 miles apart - Mary Dickinson Wood, Cumberland, ME and daughter, Lauren Vessey Faulhaber, North Yarmouth, ME. We are both licensed separately thru the State of Maine. We have raised only Golden Retrievers since 1982.

Our goal at Goldiva Goldens is to produce genetically healthy and temperamentally sound puppies with correct conformation and longevity. We strive to improve the pedigrees of each litter using Champion studs to compliment each bitch's pedigree and by putting Champion titles in Conformation and/or performance titles on our females for Beauty and Brains!

All of our Goldens have their health clearances for Hip, Heart & Eye. We compete in both American Kennel Club ("AKC") shows and Canadian Kennel Club ("CKC") shows. All of our dogs are professionally trained and handled exhibiting in the Conformation breed ring; Field Training for Junior Hunt (JH); Companion Dog ("CD") AKC obedience title, Rally O ("RN"), AKC obedience title; and/or Pet Therapy. The average life span of our dogs is 12 to 15 years. All litters are carefully planned keeping within the AKC Breed Standard for Goldens by selective breeding. We usually have a couple of litters each year at either one of our houses. Our dogs are not kennel dogs but live indoors as personal companions with our family or in show homes.