A golden retriever is read as gentle loyalty and a warm, golden kind of happiness. Bringing something back in the dream points to recovering what was lost or set aside.
Where in your waking life have you met something like this lately?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.