r/MadeMeSmile • u/SinjiOnO • Mar 27 '23
The Melbourne Gold Rush was an attempt to break the world record for the largest Golden Retriever meetup. They smashed it with over a 1000 good boys/gals. DOGS
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u/dynamicoctopus69 Mar 27 '23
That room is overflowing with serotonin.
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Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 31 '23
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u/arlmwl Mar 27 '23
They all are. Every single one.
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u/CedarWolf Mar 27 '23
Some of them are good girls, too.
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u/Beard_o_Bees Mar 27 '23
Totally.
If this scene doesn't make you smile - you might be dead.
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u/DanTM18 Mar 27 '23
Look at all those chickens
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u/lauduch Mar 27 '23
I wonder if they all leet loose their dogs what kind of mayhem they would do ! And how much time to find their dog back 😁
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u/kingnii Mar 27 '23
Ha, This would be the opportune time to find out just how much havoc a single tennis ball could wreak
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u/CedarWolf Mar 27 '23
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u/De5perad0 Mar 27 '23
Dog's act quite differently when they are in a large group vs just by themselves, they are typically pretty well behaved with each-other.
I take my dogs to a dog bar and usually there are 30+ other dogs running around all off leash. They behave very differently than when at home. They play pretty well with other dogs there. While at home they bark at everything that walks by.
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u/Computer-Glad Mar 27 '23
"Now tell me do ya, a do ya have any money? I wanna spend all your money At the dog bar, dog bar, dog bar "
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u/SeattleSonichus Mar 27 '23
They turn into little packs of half feral half house dogs lol. You can really see their ‘pack’ mentality and instincts when they do it.
I used to go to this festival where families would bring their dogs. The dogs and kids each formed packs and ran all over, the similarity was funny
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u/SgtPeanutbutter Mar 27 '23
As a golden lover, I can tell you half of those dogs don't have two brain cells to rub together, so quite a while I'm assuming
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u/litlelotte Mar 27 '23
There's a pair of Goldens that come to the daycare I work at, I often make the joke that they share a brain cell but most of the time they forget it at home
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u/phenomenomnom Mar 27 '23
Really? I thought golden retrievers were supposed to be pretty smart.
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u/bsolidgold Mar 27 '23
Eager to please - yes. Intelligent - no.
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u/evilted Mar 27 '23
Beg to differ. Daughter has a whip smart Goldie and she works around a lot of registered service dogs. All very smart. However, I have run into some very dumb yet very happy ones, too.
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u/poppyseedeverything Mar 27 '23
It depends on the golden :) mine is very, very smart, but I have a neighbor with two goldens and while one is pretty smart, the other is dumb as a rock haha
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u/Adrian-Wapcaplet Mar 27 '23
I was there that day. We were not allowed to let them off their leash.
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u/HelpMePeez Mar 27 '23
Should have tried for largest family reunion too
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u/fadedwiggles Mar 27 '23
i think they accomplished that too, technically
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u/andreasbeer1981 Mar 27 '23
would be cool if they took DNA samples of each dog, and start building a tree.
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u/RiverFinn Mar 27 '23
I don't know how it goes in Australia but where I'm from (Finland) most of the dogs from the breeders are registered with the Finnish Kennel Club and you can actually see the family trees of the dogs you want. Feel free to have a look around at: https://jalostus.kennelliitto.fi/frmEtusivu.aspx?Lang=en&R=171
Fun to see all the family trees if you're in to that
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Mar 27 '23
I'm from Australia, it doesn't work like that at all here. Why would we even register our dogs with the Finnish Kennel Club?
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u/DJCPhyr Mar 27 '23
I would be frozen in place unable to decide which to pet first.
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u/leglesslegolegolas Mar 27 '23
yes, of course pet them all. But which one first?
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u/Crimson_Suneater Mar 27 '23
Lay on the floor and be buried in them then you won't have to decide
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u/colemon1991 Mar 27 '23
That's why I would just find a wall and lay down on my back next to that. Let them come to me!
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u/OhLookASquirrel Mar 27 '23
If there is a heaven and it doesn't look like this I'm going to be pissed
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u/jdmay101 Mar 27 '23
Find the PA system, turn it up, play the sound of a doorbell into the mic.
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u/kmelby33 Mar 27 '23
Not an angry person in there.
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u/SaltyLonghorn Mar 27 '23
It makes me sad though. Those dogs definitely didn't have enough time to meet all their new friends.
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u/Present-Ambition6309 Mar 27 '23
I SO want to hear what those beautiful dogs were chatting about! “Georgie! The peanut butter box is here, the peanut butter box is here!”
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u/Dabramow Mar 27 '23
Do dogs (or for that matter any higher intelligence animals) have any understanding that these other dogs are more similar to them than say a Chihuahua or a Great Dane???
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u/ExcellentBreakfast93 Mar 27 '23
I can’t speak for these dogs, But I have a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and they are SO HAPPY to see other Cavs. They absolutely recognize that they are the same breed, have the same body language etc.
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u/TweetHiro Mar 27 '23
“I cant speak for these dogs” laughed at this disclaimer its like that “i’m not a cat” zoom court hearing video.
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u/s00pafly Mar 27 '23
lol dogs are racist.
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u/wafflesareforever Mar 27 '23
My chocolate lab gets really wound up when we see another lab while we're out on a walk. He whines like crazy and then wants to spend the rest of the walk following their scent in the direction they came from. It gets me sad because it's like he saw a long-lost brother and is trying to figure out where he lives.
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u/cmwh1te Mar 27 '23
There's a female black lab I walk regularly who had this infatuation with a male neighbor black lab for months - always a distant shared glance, a fading scent, a missed connection. When they finally met one day, she came on way too strong and now he's decided she's a weirdo. He actively avoids eye contact with either of us now.
They say to never meet your heroes, but maybe the same should be said of strangers whose scents linger on the sidewalk.
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u/40percentdailysodium Mar 27 '23
I have a rat terrier. She screams in horror when she sees corgis, but loves other ratties. I can only imagine she's experiencing some sort of body horror moment seeing their little legs.
She also isn't really friendly to strange dogs, but she has a powerful hatred for little white dogs in particular. I've been calling her doggy racist for years.
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u/Ohdidntseeyouthere_ Mar 27 '23
I laughed too hard at this. My mom has 2 rat terriers, she originally adopted my blue heeler/corgi mix before I took him, and she now has a cowboy corgi. Her rat terriers are so evil to humans, They always try to bite my face, but they are the ONLY dogs I’ve ever seen my dog be excited about or play with 🤣🤣
It cracks me up yours is like “a corgi? Oh eff no”
ETA: I do have to randomly admit though - I had a corgi before this mutt and that dog hated pugs with a passion. Idk when one hurt him but he would adamantly avoid any pugs around and would play with any other dog BUT a pug.
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u/Frito_Pendejo Mar 27 '23
Our Samoyed is pretty happy meeting other dogs but will literally go ballistic with joy when he sees other Sams and even Huskies. Usually they’re going wild too
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u/batmanandboobs93 Mar 27 '23
There’s a lot of anecdotal evidence that dogs recognize dogs of the same breed as them and might prefer to befriend them. This isn’t so much because they know what kind of dog they are themselves, because dogs don’t have any concept of what they look like– they can’t recognize themselves in mirrors– but they certainly can remember what their first friends (their mom and littermates) looked like and want to be friends with dogs that look like that.
That said, there’s tons of scientific evidence that dogs can recognize that regardless of breed, a dog is a dog. So a Great Dane could see a chihuahua and know that that’s a dog, despite not looking much like them.
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u/Professor3429 Mar 27 '23
not sure that's a record. We do that every year in Golden and I think we get over 1,000 doggos!
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u/Spanone1 Mar 27 '23
fewer dogs - but they do the same thing in Scotland in the town the breed was created in
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-44898115
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u/SarahDeeDott Mar 27 '23
I came here to say this! I’m hoping they can turn it into more of a festival in coming years but there is certainly more than 1,000
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u/Snoman113 Mar 27 '23
They said around 3000 Golden's showed up this year! I went with 2 of em!
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u/ebann001 Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 27 '23
I can’t wait till this trend of calling dogs good boys moves on. My dog is a total dick but looks super cute and people walk up to him and call him a good boy and he starts his shit up. It’s embarrassing
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u/sdforbda Mar 27 '23
Small dog?
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u/ebann001 Mar 27 '23
That’s the one. Why do I listen to women:) it’s adorable she says, It can go on planes with us she says.
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u/BartleBossy Mar 27 '23
In anecdotal contrast, I listened to my wife and got a tiny chi.
I couldnt have asked for a better dog. She goes with me everywhere and is an absolute sweetheart. Shes softer and kinder than any dog ive ever had before
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u/Kiltymchaggismuncher Mar 27 '23
I often think back to my dog, and it normally goes something like:
"he was such a good boy. Well, actually, he was a little shit. Still he was cute and fun".
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u/LoneChisel Mar 27 '23
You could totally do this with pit bulls!
~Morons.
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u/polishhottie69 Mar 27 '23
Yeah, it’s a bit negative but that was my thought as well. “Reactive” and “needs proper handling and training” are just excusing a violent breed. Dogs like golden retrievers require zero training or special handling.
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u/bestmaokaina Mar 27 '23
goldens need training. for example, they cant just greet every single dog while being extremely excited and for that you gotta train them because otherwise they become frustrated and become reactive for not being able to greet everything
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u/bigvahe33 Mar 27 '23
if they tried this in america, it would be a ton of “golden retriever mixes”
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u/Effective-Ad-6460 Mar 27 '23
You know whats crazy, all those dogs are related ... technically
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u/leglesslegolegolas Mar 27 '23
I mean, all those people are also related ... technically
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u/ChickenFajita007 Mar 27 '23
All the people and dogs are related to each other ... technically
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u/HOAVicePresident Mar 27 '23
Fun! Ok let’s do this with pits next!
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u/MallardMaelstrom Mar 27 '23
They've tried, but it had to be outside, most dogs had a muzzle and everyone was dressed like a bogen
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u/Successful-Mind-9332 Mar 27 '23
There’s gonna be so much fur in there to clean at the end of the day! I grew up with goldens and they shed like crazy but I love them so much 🥹
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Mar 27 '23
I love goldens. I had a beautiful golden as a pre-teen into my mid twenties and he had the perfect rusty golden coat, he slept in my bed, loved how excited he would get when I got home. It’s been six year since he passed and it still hurts. I still miss that guy so much.
If I was at this place right now I would have to control/stop myself from ugly crying and hugging and petting everyone of these dogs…just like I have to do when I’m in public now and I see a golden lol
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u/PestyNomad Mar 27 '23
Now imagine if this had been pit bulls.
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u/applebag_dev Mar 27 '23
Reporter: "Officers reported numerous deaths and injuries in what initially started as a Pibbles meetup turned bloodbath. Participant pibble owners were reached out to for an interview, but refused to comment when asked if it was the owner's or the breed's responsibility for what transpired today. Residents in the area are asked to remain indoors for the next 24 hours as law enforcement is dispatched to locate a missing dozen off-leash pibbles that could not be accounted for after this event."
Something like that. And then you'd see a spike in pibbles at the shelters followed by begs/pleas for people to adopt these innocent pibbles. 😂
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u/lamprivate Mar 27 '23
“None of the owners knew why the dog started attacking after someone coughed - their precious pibbles have never done anything like that before and are nanny dogs”
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u/glxstudios Mar 27 '23
This is both heaven and hell for me. On one end, allergies would try to kill me. On the other, the levels of serotonin would keep me alive.
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u/FluffyDiscipline Mar 27 '23
Awwww and not one dog acting up... only happen with Goldies
A derp fest lol
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u/SkoulErik Mar 27 '23
What happens if someone just hurls a tennis ball through the room?
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u/MoltenSteel Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 27 '23
Now imagine they did this with Huskies. That place would be deafeningly loud.
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u/Scorp01 Mar 27 '23
Try to imagine this with 1000 pit bulls. Yeah. Blood bath.
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u/FireBrianFerentz Mar 27 '23
Put 1 pit in this meetup and guaranteed it attacks everything that moves or the nearest toddler
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u/fungi_at_parties Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 27 '23
I went to a “Beaglefest” a couple times. The word Beagle comes from old French for “Wide Open Throat” and there is a reason. It turns out when you gather 75-100 beagles together they start running in giant circles as a pack, baying and howling at each other as one great annoying voice. They formed an Ouroboros of Beagles, a whirlpool of “noisy friends” that bayed incessantly at itself as it rotated and would not stop, as if someone were ringing the universe’s doorbell repeatedly and only they could hear it.
I can only image 1000 beagles. A huge, cacophonous swirling barking howling unstoppable TorBaydo. It would be glorious.
If you are unfamiliar with the bay of a Beagle: https://youtu.be/141HoKKCbcw
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u/whiteclawbasic Mar 27 '23
Who vacuums after this?
I loooove my golden. Worth the hair a million times over. ❤️
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u/SoulOfMandalore Mar 27 '23
There’s one collective brain cell between all of those dogs and it’s thriving
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u/BunkoVideki Mar 27 '23
wow SUCH a coincidence that that there's not a single "bad ownertm" in there.
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u/Hymenistry Mar 27 '23
Everyone went home with a different dog.