About Us

Who We Are

We are a family operated hobby breeder of the beautiful test. Doug and I (Judy) are happily married and blessed with 8 beautiful children (yes they are all ours!) And now we are moving on to the fun season of Grandchildren in our lives!

We are passionate about what we do here at test and believe that our dogs AND our clients deserve the very best! As a result, our dogs live either in the home with us or with one of our exceptional Guardian Families! Our reason for choosing the test is because we love the breed, its smartness, love of people and children, and its exquisite beauty. The test is one breed where you can "have it all" in one dog!!! We pride ourselves in being one of the finest test breeders in . We also guarantee to provide you with a most beautiful and superior test pup topped with the best service and care for the lifetime of your test family member!

OUR MISSION

As a small hobby breeder of English Cream Golden Retrievers, our goal is to breed puppies that are of sound health, excellent temperament,and in keeping with the AKC standards of the breed. Our puppies are born and raised in our home with constant supervision and care. They are played with and socialized daily in preparing them to be excellent family pets. From the very beginning our goal has been a total commitment to improving the quality of the English Cream Golden Retriever breed. We provide nothing less than the best in EVERYTHING we do for our Goldens Family here at Montana Mist Goldens! We start by the choosing Sires and Dams from only the finest English Champion Bloodlines that are healthy, exquisite, and have calm, mellow temperaments. Next we spare no expenses when it comes to top quality nutrition and veterinarian care. We feed only the best and have chosen Life's Abundance because we honestly have not found a better nutrition program for our dogs! We are so convinced that with the solid nutrition Life's Abundance provides, our pets will live long and happy lives!

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OUR STORY

In 2011, we were blessed with 3 wonderful test: Troy, Miss Keisha and Miss Ember ~ gorgeoustest with amazing champion pedigree. As our passion is to continually improve our breeding program so that we offer only the very best, in 2013 we were able to add to our test family 2 very wonderful females which we imported from Russia ~ Miss Izya and Miss Hanna! These girls had both won their championships in Russia and came to us each expecting a beautiful litter of champion bred puppies! From beautiful Miss Izya we also have her gorgeous daughter Miss Sophie! And our newest addition, Miss Elsa is a daughter of beautiful Miss Hanna. Along with making sure our pedigree is of the healthiest lines we could find, all of our sires and dams have their hip, elbow, heart and eye clearances so that we can ensure we are producing the healthiest, top quality pups possible! And so our program has continued to improve with top quality pedigree, show quality looks and build and most importantly, amazing temperament and health!

Not only was the quality of dogs we choose to breed important to us, but how our dogs are treated was of top priority to us! We consulted with many other top breeders and were very impressed with those who chose not to keep their dogs in kennels, but rather allow them to live happy, full lives in a loving home just as every dog should experience and be allowed to live! Thus came in to being our popular Guardian Home program! This program has been amazing blessing to us, our dogs and our wonderful Guardian Home families.

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Lini Reading and her daughter Halle with their Golden family <3

Lini Reading, Breeding Program Manager

Meet our new Breeding Program Manager, Lini Reading who is super excited to have the opportunity to become a part of test! Lini's history with tests goes back to 1983 and since that time, she has had at least two of these wonderful animals in her home at all times!

Lini is also an experienced breeder and from 1986-1996 she has bred several exceptional tests. It is her passion and joy to nurture and watch puppies from birth through the time they join their forever families as well as to see them grow and develop into their own little personalities. Obviously the most difficult part is saying goodbye to these wonderful babies!

Lini's own personal testimony is this: "In the past year and a half I have gotten to know Judy and the test family and now am a proud Guardian Home for 2 of these beautiful dogs. In my extensive time with tests; traveling, training and just living, I am finding the personality of the test dogs to be most enjoyable, loving and care free. If you're looking for a beautiful, devoted, calm and easy going golden, look no further! These are the pups for you! I look forward to meeting and sharing the joys of getting a new puppy from test! :-)"

Thanks Lini for all you do to add so much more to our program so that we can continue offering our clients the very best! She is now proud to be the “Nanny” for test!"