I have been training, working and breeding Labradors for over 40 years. I have been a Kennel Club Assured Breeder ever since the scheme first began in 2004 and I now have current, UKAS accredited approval. I am also a member of the Three Ridings Labrador Club, the Northumberland and Durham Labrador Retriever Club, the Golden Retriever Club of Northumbria and the Yorkshire Retriever Field Trial Soc
iety. All our dogs and bi***es are bred from Field Trial Champion and Winning stock and mostly go back to my foundation bitch who was by Field Trial Champion Pocklington Glen out of a bitch by Field Trial Champion Drakeshead Tinker. We are now testing all our dogs which we plan to breed from for PRA (Progressive Retinal Atrophy - which causes blindness); CNM (Centronuclear Myopathy - which causes muscle wastage and in the worst case scenario, for the dog to have to be put to sleep); EIC (Exercise Induced Collapse - which causes the dog to collapse after exercise) and SD2 (Skeletal Dysplasia 2 which causes dwarfism - the dog's legs simply stop growing). We also have our dogs X-rayed for Hip and Elbow dysplasia and we have their eyes tested every year. We only breed from dogs with low hip and elbow scores and with clear eye tests and we now have had six dogs with perfect (0/0) hip-scores. We have 16 working Labs at present ranging from Katie, who is ten, down to this year's youngsters: Tarnedge Jaina and Tarnedge Peregrine who are both black-carrying-chocolate bitch pups, by Levenghyl Sky Walker and FT Champion Waterford Harris of Featherfly; and little Tarnedge Swordsman - a chocolate dog puppy whose sire is by FTCh Brackenbird Minnow and whose dam is by FTCh Pocklea Adder. We have great hopes for this little chap that he might take over as our next chocolate stud dog - but he will have to pass his health tests and jump through a lot of hoops before that happens!
