About us

This adventure began for the love of the breed and a passion for all animals.

Growing up our family dogs were goldens. Way back in the day, goldens were not that common but it wasn’t long before many friends and family members also got goldens from knowing ours. They have also continued to have them thru generations as their dog of choice. It’s not hard to fall in love with them for their incredible temperaments and such happy, sweet, loving and goofy personalities. Goldens are phenomenal family dogs but also incredibly athletic. They are so smart, funny, and full of unconditional love.

We are a small breeder with only a few litters a year. Our homestead is a horse farm where the parents gallivant freely and the pups welp and grow up with tons of love and socializing. My experience is extensive with dogs and horses. For the last 25 years I have rescued and fostered many, always room at the inn here at Rhode to Glory. I also bred dogs 20 years ago but took a hiatus to breed horses.

The decision to start breeding the goldens was not a light decision.  Our 4 family dogs who had all been rescues, grew old and in the period of one year we lost them all.  Heartbroken, a friend who had just had a litter of purebred goldens invited us over to get some puppy love and well… how can you walk away from a little golden puppy? That puppy was Bryker and then came Sunshine who we deliberately picked out for him. The combination of these two was a perfect match, gorgeous, healthy, sweet puppies.

Having the puppies is just pure joy for our family, having my young son learn so much about life, caring, responsibility, compassion and love for the animals is just so much fun and amazing to watch. You would think it would be enough but when we meet the new families for the puppies, and hear the stories of why they want a golden… the tears, hugs, excitement and gratitude of young and old on pick up day is heart bursting!! So grateful for the many regular updates of the puppies and visits back to the farm mean so much to us.

Enjoy looking at our gallery and feel free to contact us with any questions. We look forward to hearing from you.

Tracy Ferguson
Owner of Rhode to Glory Golden retrievers/stables