What is Maple Golden Retriever?

As shown in the picture, this is the maple leaf red golden retriever that is popular in dog kennels in China. The golden retriever in the dog farm is so fast that 100% of the maple leaf red golden retrievers are produced in every litter~

According to purebred dog genetics, within the same breed, even if the parents have the same coat color, they can produce dogs with other coat colors that the parents do not have.

In other words, under normal genetics, it is impossible to have batches of 100% maple leaf red like China.

So what causes this incredible genetic strength? See "Inbreeding" breeding in our previous articles analyzing genetics.

Why does the concept of maple leaf red appear?

First of all, let’s take a look at the photos of the two world-famous dogs, Haagen-Dazs and HOBO.

Haagen-Dazs

HOBO

Yes, both of them are dark blonde. These two famous dogs are both milestones in the history of golden retrievers in the world!

Look again at the Maple Leaf Emperor, the first batch of golden retrievers to enter the mainland more than ten years ago.

Because it is the first batch of golden retrievers introduced into the country, it has the significance of opening up the world in the history of domestic golden retrievers. At that time, when the Maple Leaf Emperor was mentioned, it meant a good dog, a good golden retriever. Of course, compared with the second batch of champion golden retrievers introduced later, Maple Leaf Emperor...the first batch's trial significance is greater than the true genetic significance.

So, when you mentioned the Maple Leaf Emperor at that time, as long as you linked the dog with the Maple Leaf Emperor, others would follow suit and praise him.

However, we can see from the photos that the Maple Leaf Emperor's coat color... is actually medium golden, which is completely incompatible with the crimson golden retriever that became popular later

But maple leaves, when we mention maple leaves, we think of the color of maple leaves, which are fiery red

And there was no Internet at that time, so information dissemination was not comparable to what it is now. Even the Maple Leaf Emperor’s photos only have one or two sporadic ones left.

① The name "Maple Leaf" of Maple Leaf Emperor has a misleading meaning of red maple leaf

② The world's top famous dogs "Haagen-Dazs" and "HOBO" are both dark gold color

② As the first batch of famous golden retriever dogs to enter the mainland, Maple Leaf Emperor has great influence, just like the representative of "good dog"

④ At that time, the Internet was out and information circulation was limited, so most people could not see the real "Maple Leaf Emperor"

Under the influence of these combinations, coupled with word-of-mouth rumors, the first batch of golden retrievers to do mass breeding mistakenly believed that "maple leaf dark red coat color" golden retrievers were good golden retrievers, and entered the era of efforts to create a generation of maple leaf red golden retrievers in batches.

How was the Maple Red Golden Retriever created?

Here, some parts I am sure are true, and some are just "supposedly". No one can prove the authenticity. After all, the "Maple Leaf Red Golden Retriever Era" is outdated and no one is engaged in transformation anymore." Maple Leaf Red" is fine.

The "it is said" part: Our ancestors strung together other breeds and then strung them back into golden retrievers, which were consolidated and improved from generation to generation.

It is said that the first batch of "Irish Setter dogs", as shown in the picture, look like maple leaf red golden retrievers

As I said before, from the perspective of orthodox dog breed genetics, even if both parents have the same coat color, the baby will have a high probability of having other coat colors in the dog breed. This is the real genetics. .

As shown in the picture, the nine colors of the golden retriever breed

So under normal circumstances, a baby will have a variety of colors, dark and light. As for the Maple Leaf Red Golden Retriever...it's almost a 100% probability of having the same coat color.

A dog farm, no matter how many litters, and different breeding females and males, can all give birth to "golden retrievers" of the same color... This is the result of multiple generations of super close relatives strengthening the genes.

In other words, to achieve such unified genetics, the maple leaf red ancestors must be the result of repeated mating of super close relatives for many generations. There is no doubt about this.

Super close relatives can strengthen genetic genes and also strengthen genes for many genetic diseases.

Fortunately, maple leaf red is now outdated, and dog dealers will no longer repeatedly create "maple leaf red" from close relatives. As for what is going on with the newly popular "thick and exaggerated" golden retriever, we have to wait another ten years until this trend is over before the industry will reveal the inside story.

Dark gold ≠ maple leaf red

There are nine colors of golden retrievers. We can see that there are three deep gold colors.

And the world's top famous dogs "Haagen-Dazs" and "HOBO" also belong to deep gold.

So we cannot deny the existence of deep gold just because the "Maple Leaf Red Golden Retriever" was created by China.

GoldIt is normal for the coat to be dark, but it is two different things from the "Maple Leaf Red Golden Retriever", two types of dogs.