Lake Run Retrievers

06/21/2026

🐾The nesting process has begun! Pups due in 9 days!🐾

06/19/2026

Its everyone's favorite guessing game....puppy count Xray! Let us know what you think!

06/17/2026

Shout out to a great local business! Between Milligan’s Fisheries and local fishermen, a total of $6000 is going into the hands of organizations right here on PEI to support companion animals!

Our first annual fundraising campaign I think was a huge success. With donations from some of our fisher friends, and vendors as well as a portion of our proceeds from Saturday shipments, we are very excited to say we raised a total of $6000.00 which will be split 50/50 between PEI Humane Society and PEI Cat Action team. Thank for stepping up to help our furry friends who can not speak for them selves.

06/12/2026

🫎Moose🫎 is NOT on the loose!

We stopped by Eastern Fence Products yesterday and picked up this new 4x6 Kennel. Very impressed with the heavy duty quality in this bad boy!

They weren't giving them away though. So now we need to pay for it. While we are not a boarding facility, its rare that there isn't some extra paws roaming around the kennel.

If you need your pup looked after for a few days, we have openings for the next couple of weeks before we move the new kennel out and prepare for River's upcoming litter.

06/06/2026

River's baby bump is starting to show! Pups are due June 30th. This litter is fully wait listed.... and then some.

06/05/2026

☀️Brown dog and blue skies☀️

06/01/2026

A big congratulations to Lake Run Hunter and his handler Kent!

They both earned their first ribbon at the PEI Retriever Club's spring hunt test this past weekend!

05/29/2026

Lots of phenomenal dogs and handlers at this event. We hope everyone has a great day....but it sure would be special to see Cash take the blue ribbon in this one. He has sired the bulk of Lake Run puppies out there!

05/21/2026

An oldie. Crazy to think that little pup Winnie is a month out from hopefully having some grand puppies!

05/19/2026

Some really cool observations!
But....We still think people stress way to much about choosing their pup.

When its time for us to keep one from a litter, we just take whoever is left.

About 8 years ago, we started color coding our puppies by gender birth order simply as a way to keep track of them during the whelping process for our clients’ litters.

What started as an organizational system slowly turned into something really fascinating.

After helping raise over 75 litters and watching hundreds of puppies grow, mature, train, and come back through our programs over the years, we began noticing consistent personality patterns tied to the collar colors. Not in every puppy, and not as a guarantee, but often enough that it genuinely caught our attention.

For example:Light Pink females are very often natural leaders.Purple females are commonly the smallest and can be a little feistier and more strong-willed.Light Blue males are frequently the teddy bears of the litter.Green and Orange males are often some of the bigger, bolder boys.

The really interesting part is that the collars are assigned by gender birth order, not overall birth order. So every litter is completely different.

We’d absolutely love to see someone study this deeper from a behavioral science standpoint because after all these years, the patterns are hard to ignore.

Every puppy is still an individual, but it’s been fascinating to watch these trends repeat themselves over time.