Honest updates on Biscuit’s health journey, including vet visits, what we’ve tried, and the lessons I’ve learned keeping a golden happy and well.
Eight years old is one of those birthdays that makes you pause. Goldens age in dog years faster than most breeds, and somewhere around seven or eight you start noticing the small changes: a little stiffness after a lo…
When Biscuit started scratching his ears raw at 3 AM and leaving little piles of diarrhea on the kitchen floor, I did what most golden retriever owners do: I panicked, googled frantically, and considered switching his…
Biscuit turned 8 last spring, and the shift was sudden. One season he was bounding after tennis balls; the next, he was slow to rise after naps and staring at the back door like he’d forgotten why he was standing there.
If you’ve ever watched your golden retriever turn away from dinner, heard that telltale gurgling sound, or cleaned up one too many midnight messes, you already know: golden retrievers and sensitive stomachs go togethe…
By Jennifer Adams · Golden Retriever Mom & Supplement Researcher · Updated July 2026 Over the past two years of writing about Biscuit’s health, one resource has quietly become the thing I hand to every golden retriever owner who messages me asking, “Okay, but how do I actually choose something?” It’s not a product. It’s…
By Jennifer Adams · Golden Retriever Mom & Supplement Researcher · Updated July 2026 It started, as these things do, with a kiss I immediately regretted. Biscuit, my seventy-pound golden retriever, decided to greet me first thing in the morning with her full enthusiasm and her full mouth, and the breath that came with it…
By Jennifer Adams · Golden Retriever Mom & Supplement Researcher · Updated July 2026 Golden retrievers are not low-maintenance dogs, and anyone who has loved one knows it. We are a breed-specific household in the truest sense: our entire world revolves around one seventy-pound, perpetually hungry, emotionally expressive golden named Biscuit. And over the years,…
By Jennifer Adams · Golden Retriever Mom & Supplement Researcher · Updated July 2026 There’s a specific kind of love that means leaning in to kiss your golden retriever’s forehead and then quietly, politely, trying not to breathe through your nose. I loved Biscuit more than almost anything, and for about two years I also…
By Jennifer Adams · Golden Retriever Mom & Supplement Researcher · Updated July 2026 By Jennifer Park · Biscuit’s mom Updated July 30, 2026 · Personal experience, not a clinical trial Disclosure: This site may receive compensation from brands mentioned. Every opinion here is my own and reflects my honest, first-hand experience with Biscuit. Nothing…
By Jennifer Adams · Golden Retriever Mom & Supplement Researcher · Updated July 2026 By Jennifer Park · Biscuit’s mom Updated July 30, 2026 · Personal experience, not a clinical trial Disclosure: This site may receive compensation from brands mentioned. Every opinion here is my own and reflects my honest, first-hand experience with Biscuit. Nothing…