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Dogs are made to sleep a lot when they aren't doing anything. This comes from the wolf ancestry. Wolves go like crazy when they are hunting. Once they eat, they can sleep and laze around for several days before hunting, again. the golden, like most dogs, retains this ability to sleep, but also like most dogs, they need those bursts of intense release of energy by running hard, playing, and so on.

It is not unusual for a golden to sleep in the mid-morning after breakfast, be pretty active for awhile, then sleep a couple of hours in the afternoon. After supper, they may like to play vigourously, and then bed down and sleep another 7 or 8 hours, waking just in time for breakfast. Of course each dog has its own sleep timetable.

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