More Than 2,000 Golden Retrievers Gather in an Argentina Park in an Attempt to Break a World Record

The previous informal record had been set during an event in Vancouver last year, which brought together 1,685 goldens

Ella Feldman - Daily Correspondent

December 15, 2025 2:48 p.m.

Owners and their golden retrievers gather in an attempt to break the world record in the Bosques de Palermo in Buenos Aires on December 8, 2025. Cristina Sille / Anadolu via Getty Images

More than 2,000 golden retrievers in bandanas, baseball hats, bows and at least one Lionel Messi jersey gathered in a sprawling park in Buenos Aires to break a world record.

Dog owners and their furry friends descended on the Bosques de Palermo, a huge urban park in one of the capital’s trendiest neighborhoods, on December 8 in an attempt to break the unofficial world record for largest gathering of golden retrievers.

The previous record had been set last year during a Vancouver event that drew 1,685 goldens, per the Associated Press’ Isabel Debre. The Buenos Aires gathering cleared that record by hundreds. According to a tally by ten volunteers, 2,397 goldens were in attendance.

“This is a historic event,” Fausto Duperre, the gathering’s organizer, told the AP. “I’m truly grateful and happy, proud, excited and overjoyed all at once.” Duperre, a 28-year-old actor, has built a following on social media for posting content about his own golden, Oli.

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Earlier this year, the world’s tallest dog, a Great Dane named Reggie, met the world’s shortest dog, a Chihuahua named Pearl, for a playdate.

The idea came to Duperre a few years ago at an event in Barcelona, where 150 goldens came together, per NPR’s Scott Detrow and Ailsa Chang. Duperre and his friend, Flavia Fittipaldi, decided to look up where other golden retriever gatherings had happened, and came across the Vancouver event.

They spoke to local officials about permitting a world record attempt, and got a green light, NPR reports.

Photos and video from the sunny summer day show a sea of blonde fur, wagging tails and owners of all ages and backgrounds, united by their love of goldens. One 26-year-old with a photo of his golden retriever printed on his T-shirt told the AP that he drove an hour and a half from his home to attend the event.

Golden retrievers gather in Argentina for a world record attempt

Golden retrievers originated in 1868 in the Scottish Highlands, where they were bred by Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, who mated a yellow wavy-coated retriever named Nous with a tweed water spaniel named Belle, per PBS News’ Lorna Baldwin. In 2013, 222 goldens traveled to the tiny Scottish village of Tomich to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Britain’s Golden Retriever Club.

“To me, they’re children, for real,” Raquel Leidi, an animal protector who attended Argentina’s record-breaking event, told Reuters. “I mean, a human child is very important, but a canine child is as well because they stand by you in the good and bad moments.”

According to the AP, passersby could hear the sound of thousands of dogs barking from miles away.

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