Jane,

Thank you very much for our puppy! She is doing great at the house - Not quite house broken but making good progress. She loves the kids. We named her Callaway (my wife loves golf). She sleeps from about 10:30pm until 6:00 - 6:30am without barking ot get out of her crate - when she gets tired she just marches over and goes inside.She has learned very quickly to retrive a ball and bring it back and drop it. She also knows the command to sit. You bred a very smart dog! Anyways - here are some pictures from her first weekend at her new home.

John

Hello!  Merry Christmas to you all.  Allie is a very good dog and a great asset to our family.  She is quite tall, long, and very lean; probably from the daily outings in the woods with David and me.  She is very "birdy" and actually did quite well at our hunting club field trial, held 2 weeks ago.  They planted two birds, at this puppy trial, and each owner took their pup out and had them quarter and flush the birds.  The gunner then shot and the dog retrieved the birds.  Allie was the youngest at 7 months and she promptly zig-zagged the field, flushed the pigeon, which thankfully our son joshua shot. Allie then quickly ran and retrieved the bird, almost to David's feet, but she stopped for a quick nibbble(not unusual for a pup).  this was the first bird.  The second was also flushed and was too far away for a shot.  She gave chase as the bird circled the field and flew off.  David whistled her back and she came immediately back to him.  This was excellent as another pup did the same kind of chase, except for a 5 minute forrage into the woods!  So allie is not only very obedient, but doing extremely well in the hunting department.  She has a great nose!!!  for her efforts that day, she took a third place!!!  She competed against dogs from 7 to 13 months old, so as you might imagine, we are extremely pleased and love her quite dearly.  She is still my dog, so to speak, but David probably means even more to her as he does with her such favorite  things- hunting and getting the birds, training with the whistle.  She did a wonderful job with a scented dummy this fall, at 4 months old, so we knew she was the right one for us!!!  We almost considered seeing you for a second dog, but we know that one is just right for us at this time.  My mother-in-law recently got a rescue lab/chow/? 4 year dog.  lady and allie are fast friends and can they go!  they run in a fenced in yard at lady's house, and are as fast as a greyhound, round and round, through the field and trees and back to us.  It's great fun to watch and they give equal chase.  so, you might conclude that we and allie are doing well and she's beyond "spoiled" in only the best way.  Thanks for a great start and you are always mentioned when we talk about her beginnings.  Have a healthly new year.  I'll send a photo when joshua can help me get it to you.  

 Best regards,  Therese and David Denner

Hi Jane,

 Jane,

Thought you might like to see how my future hunting buddy is progressing.  Zevon just turned six months and 55 pounds a few days ago and as you can see from his picture, he's a beautiful, classic, black lab.  He's full of energy and drive and just what I was hoping for.  He loves running beside our horses when we trail ride and has become, my wife, Karen's jogging partner.We had him neutered a couple of  weeks ago and with the help of a trainer, we're working on obedience and retriever hunting fundamentals.  He sometimes needs his enthusiasm curbed (jumping and chewing) but we've found that plenty of exercise is the best solution to keeping him mellowed out.  Thanks to your initial crate training,  we never really had much trouble with potty training.  Within about a month after bringing him to our home he was letting us know when he wanted outdoors to relieve himself. Thanks for all your efforts at producing quality labs and helping to maintain such a wonderful breed!