Russford Labradors

12/29/2024

Happy First Birthday to the Triton x Jovi litter! River, Oliver, Louie and our girl Maxine are one year old today.

12/25/2024

Merry Christmas from our Russford family to yours!

12/01/2024

Our annual Christmas tree tradition wouldn’t be complete without Laney 🎄🌲❄️🐾

11/23/2024

10/22/2024

•Pet your dog, all the time
•Talk to your dog, all the time
•Allow your dog to follow you, all the time
•Allow your dog to be on your lap or laying on your feet, all the time
•Pet, soothe, comfort your dog when it whines or barks for attention...or is simply anxious
•Allow your dog to demand affection/interactions
•Be emotionally dependent on your dog to the point that unhealthy dependency and interactions are no longer noticed
•Allow your dog to do whatever it wants, whenever it wants—aka, provide no structure, rules, or accountability
•Foster an environment of chaos, stress, and anxiety
•Refuse to train and pattern calmness
•Refuse to crate train your dog
•Refuse to correct your dog when inappropriate behavior occurs
•Refuse to train your dog how to be independent/alone by using a “Place” command, “Downstay, and/or “away” time in the crate
•Let your dog out of the crate when it whines or barks
•Avoid training or anything that makes your dog temporarily uncomfortable or unhappy—in other words, cater to your dog’s every desire/need, designing your life around your dog, rather than having your dog fit into yours
•And many, many more...

Basically, baby, soothe, allow, enable, disable, lean on, omit teaching necessary life skills, prioritize what feels good for you rather than what does good for your dog, and through this master plan of leadership-free chaos, and systematic cultivation of creating a toxic dependency between dog and human...you’ll ensure that when you leave, your dog will be a true emotional mess, because you haven’t prepared them to be calm, obedient, strong, resilient, robust, independent, and alone.

10/01/2024

We know many families have been looking for an update on our puppy plans, but unfortunately we will not have plans for puppies now until 2025. However, our friends have a beautiful litter of Granger pups (related to our Tilly and Jovi) who will be ready for new homes in late November. Yellow pups currently available! Please reach out to them directly for more information:

https://www.harborrunlabs.com/

06/16/2024

Happy 10th Birthday to Laney! CH Harbor Run’s All For Leyna at Russford CGC TKN RN

I can’t believe she’s 10 years old. She’s been such a big part of our lives for the past decade. Laney has been on so many adventures, but now she gets to enjoy her retirement on the couch with a nice steak for dinner. Happy Birthday sweet girl! ❤️

05/02/2024

Chocolate puppy available with our friends at Rimfire Retrievers! We have no plans for puppies until late 2024/early 2025.

*She has a home pending pickup! Thanks for all the shares and inquiries!*

This cute chocolate chunk is searching for a family to call her own! Her littermates leave this weekend and she is ready to go.
Vet checked, first shots, age appropriate deworming, microchipped, AKC limited registration.

04/23/2024

We have no chocolate puppies in our future for quite some time. If you’re looking for a chocolate puppy, take a look Rimfire Retrievers!

03/04/2024

Gotcha weekend for the Triton x Jovi pups is in the books. We met two new fabulous families, and had one of our prior Russford families come back for their second pup! We wish all great things for River, Louie and Oliver and can’t wait to see what’s in store for each of them. Thank you to their families for preparing over the last several months, and for trusting us with raising your new family members. We loved this litter so much we thought one should stick around - yellow girl is joining the family!

02/28/2024

When you finally welcome your 8 week old puppies, please keep this picture in mind. Their bones aren’t even touching yet. They walk so beautifully with big, flexible legs and bench movements because their joints are made up entirely of cartilage, muscles, tendons and ligaments covered with skin. Nothing is well adjusted or has real grip yet.

When you make them run excessively or don't limit their exercise to prevent them from overdoing during that time, you're not giving them the chance to grow properly. Every big jump or bounce and excited run creates bone-breaking impacts.
In reasonable quantities, this is not problematic and normal wear and tear will do.

But when you let the puppy jump off the couch or bed, take him for long walks, you damage this joint in training. When you let the puppy move on slippery tiles, you damage the joint.

You only get once to make them grow up. A well built body is something that comes from excellent upbringing and good education. BOTH , not just one

Once you’re an adult, you’ll have the rest of your life to spend playing and engaging in high-impact exercises. So keep him calm while he is still young and give him the gift that can only be given once.
Shared from Clinique Vetérinaire Vetolistic - Dr. Marie Eve Cresci

02/18/2024

The Triton x Jovi pups are seven weeks old. Puppy matchups are coming soon ❤️ We’re so excited for each of their futures - there are big things in store for these little ones! 🥰🐾