
We have two guardian home puppies available at this time: a 10 lb red mini golden male, and a planned purebred english cream golden retriever female. Take a look!
It looks like we don't have any available mini goldens at the moment...



We have a few miniature golden retriever litters coming up with our amazing mommas! Some dark red, gold, and cream litters that we're so excited to make happen! We have weight estimates, color predictions, parents pictures, and past puppy photos available any time if you're interested in one of these litters!
Do you know you want a mini golden puppy from us, but aren't sure when, with which parents, from which litter, or which gender you want? If you message me and put down a deposit for one of our puppies, you will have first-pick priority over other buyers in the litter of your choice (in the order that deposits were placed).
We may not have all of our plans listed on our page, so if you're planning for the future and want more information on what we're thinking of doing with our dogs, reach out to me and I will help you decide which is the best timing and litter for you!

Each of our parents dogs are genetic tested and cleared before they ever join our program

OFA and Pennhip testing is completed by each of our parent dogs

Specialty vet visits to confirm heart, patella, and eye health using X-Rays handled by veterinarians
If you're looking for a mini golden to add to your family, look no further! We are excited to help you in your journey of finding the perfect match for you and your family. We want to make sure you find the best fit possible, both personality-wise and structure-wise. We focus on health testing, temperament training, socialization, confidence boosting, and consistent build in our pups.
Our available miniature golden retriever puppies have been health tested, handled/groomed from day one, socialized, raised at-home surrounded by a loving family, and are backed by a lifetime genetic guarantee.
All of our puppies listed above on this page are our available puppies! If you don't see any that means we don't have a puppy available for you yet, but that's okay! We want to ensure that our puppies have the best start in life, so we only do 1-2 litters at a time, so that means our litters can fill up fast once we open up applications. Be reassured that we have litters (at the most) every 3-4 months, and we have spots opening up all the time!
We are here to answer any and all questions you may have about our mini golden's life span, health guarantees, health testing, socialization, handling, personality, and what might be the best fit for you over all!
We believe that good puppies start with good parents, so we take lots of time to socialize, train, and test our mom and dad dogs to ensure they have the best traits to pass on to their puppies!
We believe that part of raising confident puppies is raising them around chaos! Our kids are busy bodies who always like to be doing things, so our puppies quickly grow used to being around business, noise, and handling by different people thoroughout the day. This is the quickest way to get them socialized and confident without risking exposure to Parvo out in public, so we prioritize when raising our puppies!
Our puppies go home with a two year health guarantee than can be extended to up to five years under certain requirements (like food, time of spay and neutering, vaccinations, etc.) talk to be to learn more about our Health Guarantee and what that includes with our puppies!
Our mini golden retriever parents have extensive health trsting completed before they are considered before our program - some steps starting as early as two weeks old! In the beginning, we do an Embark screening on each of our future parent prospects to see things like color genes, coat factors, health markers, and size predictions. Health Testing through Embark will confirm the genetic health of over 270+ genetic variants, ensuring they are only passing on the best genes to their puppies.
At 12 months old, our parent prospect undergo OFA prelims to test their elbows, hips, patella, thyroid, eyes, and heart. This testing will give us a score of fair to excellent testing on each parent dog to see how we plan on pairing them and how we plan on using them in the future.
If our parents dogs don't meet these requirements, we will say a sad goodbye to them and find them a loving retirement home, hoping better for our next parent dogs!
Mini goldens are meant to capture the love and adoration people have for the purebred golden retriever, only in a smaller, more manageable size and often more manageable coat type as well. Good breeders like us will prioritize the temperament and structure of our mini goldens more than size OR shedding to ensure you're getting the most retriever-like companion possible without any unknown or unpredictable things popping up later on down the road.
We prioritize long, silky smooth, flat golden retriever coats that are anywhere from stunning white to deep, mahogany red in color. We prioritize athletic, slender builds with deep chests, copious feathering, long legs, and shorter ears.
We prioritize, friendly, confident, loyal, smart, and eager to please temperaments in all of our puppies and parents, doing whatever we can to ensure the golden retriever temperament across our lines and multiple generations.
Start first by scrolling through our available puppies above! With each of them we offer a little bit of info about their personalties and how we expect them to grow as they get older, and then their litter information on our upcoming litters page will offer more insight into their parents and litter information.
If we don't currently have any available mini golden puppies, don't sweat it! Start doing your research to find which pairing is for you! You can look at our moms and dads and their individual pages to see which temperament, build, or coloring you like best, and then talk to me about when those pairings might be available in the future.
If you have done all of this already and want to move on to the next step, I recommend getting on our master waitlist! Our master waitlist will ensure - without a doubt - that you will get your miniature golden retriever puppy soon rather than waiting to see when a puppy spot just so happens to become available.
We require an application so that we can learn the most about you and where our puppies are going, as well as find out what your preference is when it comes to a puppy so that we can plan ahead and find you the most compatible match. After that, we require a deposit to ensure your spot and reserve your place on our waitlist.
Please reach us at happytailsminigoldens@gmail.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
A Happy Tail's puppy will weigh between 20 and 40 lbs and will stand between 16 and 22 inches full grown.
A Guardian Home puppy is a puppy we provide at a discount to a family within 2 hours of Utah that will get to take care of/love on/ own him/her while we maintain breeding rights. This will mean occasional stud services and puppy whelping for males and females.
A Happy Tails' puppy will cost $4,000 for any size, gender, or breed mixture. The only time a puppy's price will vary is if we have a furnished (curly hair, beard, or mustache like a poodle) puppy. Furnished puppies are $2,500.
Great question! At Happy Tails' Mini Goldens, all of our dogs are genetic tested for all breed-related and non-breed related diseases and issues via Embark Genetic Testing. We also do OFA testing on all of our dogs, including hips, elbows, eyes, cardiac, patellas, and thyroid. Anything less than a rating of "normal" will not be used as a breeding dog - as such issues can be past on to puppies - and the dog will be spayed/neutered and rehomed to a loving family.
Our puppies have a wide variety of colors at the moment. We offer white/cream miniature golden retriever puppies and dark gold/red miniature golden retriever puppies. Other colors include light gold, medium gold, and dark gold.
At Happy Tails Mini Goldens, we may - at any given time - be returned one of our past puppies, be retiring one of our parent dogs, or rehoming a dog due to health concerns not suited for breeding. At these points, we do have available adult dogs.
Our puppies stay with their mamas for 8 weeks. This time is essential for your puppy to learn what it means to be a dog, how to interact in a pack, and how to treat other dogs with good manners. This is an essential time frame for their growth and maturity.