Spend a day with a Golden and you’ll see why they’re one of the world’s most adored breeds. To them, every stranger is a best friend, every snack is community property, and every nap spot is theirs by default. They’re equal parts cuddle bugs and chaos engines, making them both exhausting and impossible not to love. So when an Instagram video reimagined them as stars of a Hollywood-style movie trailer, Golden Retriever owners agreed it wasn’t a parody at all, but a spot-on biography.
Instagram video shows Golden Retrievers and their common traits
Daisy and Maple, two Golden Retriever siblings with more than 536K followers on Instagram, are no strangers to the spotlight. Their owner regularly shares clips of their daily antics, but a recent video stood out for its clever format. Styled as a dramatic movie trailer, it hilariously highlights the quirks that owners of Goldens know all too well.
The narration opens with the words, “This is a Golden Retriever,” before labeling the breed as a “living serotonin dispenser.” The clip then goes on to describe their “default emotion” as simply “happy.” This is something fans of the breed would likely agree with.
One of the clips shows Daisy sprawled awkwardly on the couch. The narrator goes ahead to call this a Golden in its “natural habitat.” Another focuses on their love for naps, suggesting they can fall asleep “anywhere and everywhere.”
That said, the movie trailer-like video doesn’t shy away from poking fun at some of the Golden Retrievers’ less polished habits. It jokes that their greatest weakness is food that doesn’t belong to them, while clips show Daisy and Maple eyeing snacks that aren’t theirs.
Training, too, gets a humorous treatment. According to the narrator, Goldens are easy to teach. Only if owners are willing to repeat commands dozens of times and bribe them with plenty of rotisserie chicken. Shots of the furry siblings tumbling through practice sessions drive the point across with humor.
One viewer commented, “I would 1000% watch this movie.” Meanwhile, another joked that the clip felt like “a new Discovery documentary.” Others admitted the video had them considering getting a Golden themselves, with one writing, “BRB buying a golden retriever.” One user shared, “I love my girl and there is literally never a dull moment with her, and I wouldn’t change a thing.”
The video shot like a movie trailer wraps up with a simple but fitting conclusion: Golden Retrievers are not just good dogs, “they are the best dogs in the world.” Judging by the reactions, it’s hard to find anyone willing to argue otherwise.
