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Cricket Hollow Farm

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Cricket Hollow Farms Labrador Retrievers

So, you've decided you want to add a Labrador Retriever to your family! Congratulations, it is a momentous decision to commit yourself to care for and love a dog for its lifetime. For love it you will, there is just nothing like the love of a lab! That said, before you go any further, perhaps you could take a look at this wonderful "So you think you want a labrador retriever" page and see if a lab really is the right breed of dog for you and your situation. This page will discuss the pros and cons and costs involved with a lifetime commitment to your new puppy.

So - you're still with us? A lab must be the puppy for you if those cons and costs didn't outweigh the pros! Of course, if you have ever been owned by a lab, you already know all this and you know it is all well worth the cost and the fur on the couch.

Conditions of Puppy Sale

We only raise a few litters per year, so each and every baby is precious to us. We do everything in our power to ensure the babies are healthy, happy, well socialized little darlings. We offer an extensive guarantee, which includes everything from a three day return regardless of reason, to a 2 year guarantee of the puppy's hips, and lots of other guarantees in between. You won't find many equivalent health guarantees out there. We sell all our puppies on a limited registration. We occasionally will place a show quality puppy, but only under a co-ownership agreement. We offer two types of contract, limited registration contract and co-ownership contract. You can view the contracts and have the difference between the two explained here.

If you'd like to view some photos and notes from our
previous puppy families, you can visit them on our Love Page.

We are careful about where our precious little ones are going. We do our utmost to ensure the babies will be all they can be, we start them off right by using the BioSensor method of neurological stimulation. We also socialize our puppies extensively to ensure they will be happy, healthy additions to their new families. We take special care in deciding which puppy goes where by use of extensive puppy aptitude testing.

In order to help us decide which puppy is the best match for you,
please complete and submit our puppy questionnaire

Placement

Puppies go to their new homes at about 8 weeks of age. They will have their dew claws removed, have their first shots, have been wormed, and our vet will certify their health prior to them leaving. All puppies are $850 to approved pet homes on a spay/neuter contract. Contact us if you are interested in a show/breeding prospect, pricing varies on show/breeding puppies. Puppies come microchipped for their safety and your peace of mind!

On unborn litters, we will accept deposits ($200) on 8 puppies (4 males and 4 females). Eight puppies is the average litter size for labradors, (although we have had 11 or 12!) The gestation period for a Labrador is about 60 days. On unborn litters, we can not be sure that there will be a litter, sometimes the breeding doesn't take, or something goes awry and the litter is re-absorbed. In the event that there is no litter, or when the puppies are born, if we do not have your selection, your deposit is returned, or can be used toward a future litter. Deposits are ONLY refunded if we don't have the gender/color you reserved.

To read about how we decide which puppy goes to which family, click here.

Current (or expected) litters:

If you would like to get on the waiting list for one of these litters, please email me, as they will fill up quickly, long before the babies arrive.

Summer babies in the works:

Maize has been bred to Luna for babies due at the end of May, going home in July. They had a litter in March last year that has grown up to be really lovely. We have started a waiting list for these babies! This will be an all yellow litter, please email me if you'd like to reserve a puppy from this upcoming litter. We've seen puppies on the ultrasound - lots of puppies! I have a few reservations still available, so let me know if you are interested!

Previous puppies from this pairing:

Tory has been bred to Maize for black and yellow puppies due approximately May 22, going home in July. We have started a waiting list for this litter, please just email me if you are interested in a black or yellow puppy from this pairing. They'll be stocky, very nice type puppies. Tory's sire won the breed at Westminster in 2006 and her brother won it in 2007 - she is practically royalty around here :-) Maize also has TWO Westminster BOB winners in his pedigree, so these puppies should be really lovely!

Bumble has been bred to Thistle, for babies due at the end of May, going home in July. Their puppies from last year were wonderful and continue to delight their families. This will be an all yellow litter, if you'd like to reserve a puppy from this pairing, please just email me. We've seen babies on the ultrasound! I have a couple spots still available for reservation on this litter, especially for boys - please just let me know if you are interested!

Previous babies from this pairing:

Outside litters soon to arrive to ladies our boys have been bred to:

Maize is the proud father of a black and yellow litter with Lucy, a lovely AKC/UKC trial bred girl, who is sired by HRCH Barn Ridge Frontier Jack, Jack qualified and competed in the '04 Nationals. Lucy has three Hunting Retriever Champions in her immediate pedigree. These dogs will have get up and go, will ooze hunting ability in buckets and have looks to boot! You can find out more and see pedigree and more photos of mom by contacting her owner, Brian Addis. The babies arrived May 7th, and will be ready to go home the 2nd of July.

Litters we are planning (waiting for the moms to cycle):

Belle will be bred to Jack for a black and chocolate litter sometime this spring. Belle is a gorgeous girl from a multi Dual champion pedigree, she is kind, sweet and very smart. She comes from a line of dual champion dogs, dual meaning the dog(s) are both show champions and have master hunting certification. In the history of the labrador in the US only 40 dogs have achieved dual status, and Belle has two of them in her pedigree, so we are pretty excited about these puppies. Jack comes from a wonderful show pedigree but is a hard worker and lives to retrieve and swim. He is a little too smart, always trying to figure out a way to get around me (and to those girls). He's a big love and a huge laugh, always making me smile. To reserve a puppy from this pairing, please just email me. Still waiting for her to cycle - 05/11/08

You are always welcome to email us to see what is in the works, things can change and often do :-)

Puppy families are welcome to prepare for their new family member with the purchase of a Puppy Layette from our petstore.

We also offer training packages of one or two week duration to help house and obedience train your new family member.

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