My comment above last night, may seem hard-hearted, (posted after closing!!) but it is actually based on real experience:
Friend has Golden Retrievers, has always had two, but unfortunately lost one a couple of years ago from poisoning after drinking from a puddle that had algae growing in it.
They got another similar aged one from a local shelter, pedigree as long as its tail, but not a bit of good as they neuter them before they let you have them. Anyway at first all was well, seemed to be a big,daft sloppy dog, but it soon became apparent that when it got excited, playing pull, wrestling, chasing sticks or balls, that it goes into "Frenzy" and will literally start whining, lock-onto and rip apart anything that gets near its jaws! - the first time this happened in the house, they had to usher it into the kitchen with the dining table chairs! and lock it in till it quietened.
They still have it cos they love it, but they have had to alter their lives around to do so, they cant walk both dogs together, but have to take them separately, one can be let off to run and frollick the other must be kept on the lead and kept calm.
As an outsider, I can see that they are treading on eggshells having this unstable hound about, and I for one don`t trust it one little bit! - Needle, Now! before it kills or injures, its irresponsible to be keeping it around!
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