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SunState Labs 📍Orlando/Kissimmee, FL
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Raised w/ Puppy Culture & ENS in our 🏡
Champion Bloodlines 🏆
💛🤎🖤 Bench Bred Labradors 🐾

Any day now 🙏🏼
01/12/2026

Any day now 🙏🏼

01/12/2026

Zeke is making a new bestie 💙🐾
These boys will grow to be the best of friends. 🥹🫶🏼

8 week vet appt for this crew 🤎🐾
01/12/2026

8 week vet appt for this crew 🤎🐾

01/12/2026

Just a gentle reminder that you can give your puppy every kind of toy imaginable and they will still find other human stuff to chew on. No, not because they are bad. No, not because you are failing. No, not because they are bored. Because they are DOGS. They are CANINES living INSIDE when they were designed for OUTSIDE.

You think my 10 week old puppy knows the difference between a chew bone and the leg of a chair? That he understands one is okay to chew and one isn’t? No. He just knows they both feel good on his teeth and gums.

Over time and consistency and management and plenty of redirecting eventually he will learn this is a go to and this is not, but guess who will have to do the majority of the work during that process? Yup. Me. Will he still likely chew the corner of a baseboard? Or the toes off a shoe? Absolutely.

Puppies are not bad. They are PUPPIES. We were all babies once. There was a time you didn’t know how to tie your shoes or get dressed on your own and probably tried to stick something up your nose too. Cut them some slack and enjoy the process, and take as many pictures as you can!

Smile Kipper! 🧡

To all new puppy parents, please read this carefully;When you bring home an 8-week-old puppy, you’re not bringing home a...
01/11/2026

To all new puppy parents, please read this carefully;

When you bring home an 8-week-old puppy, you’re not bringing home a “small dog.” You’re bringing home a baby whose body is still under construction. At this age, their bones haven’t fused, their joints aren’t stabilized, and much of what supports their movement is soft, flexible cartilage rather than solid bone. That’s why puppies move with exaggerated steps, loose limbs, and awkward turns—it’s not clumsiness, it’s biology.

Their joints are held together by developing muscles, tendons, and ligaments that haven’t learned how to properly stabilize movement yet. Nothing has fully tightened, aligned, or strengthened. There is very little grip, balance, or shock absorption. Every movement they make is being used by the body as a blueprint for how those joints will form later in life.

This is why overexercising a young puppy is NOT harmless.

Short bursts of play on safe surfaces are normal and necessary. But repeated stress—long walks, excessive running, sharp turns, jumping off furniture, or sliding on slick floors—creates microscopic trauma in joints that are still shaping themselves. Each hard landing or uncontrolled slip sends force through cartilage that isn’t ready to absorb it. Over time, those forces alter how joints grow, align, and stabilize.

The damage doesn’t usually show up immediately. Instead, it appears months or even years later as:

• Early arthritis

• Hip or elbow dysplasia

• Chronic joint pain

• Poor movement or shortened stride

• Increased risk of injury as an adult

Letting a puppy jump off a couch or bed may seem harmless in the moment—but that repeated impact trains fragile joints to absorb force in unhealthy ways. Walking long distances before growth plates close may build stamina, but it doesn’t build sound structure. Allowing free movement on slippery tile or hardwood floors forces joints to twist and compensate in ways they were never meant to.

You only get one opportunity to grow a puppy correctly.

A strong, well-built adult dog is the result of both good genetics and responsible upbringing. Genetics set the potential—but early care determines whether that potential is protected or compromised. You can’t “fix it later” once growth plates close.

There will be plenty of time for hiking, running, agility, jumping, and rough play once your dog’s body is fully developed. Right now, the greatest gift you can give your puppy is restraint, patience, and protection.

Keep exercise controlled.

Choose safe, non-slip surfaces.

Prevent jumping from heights.

Let growth happen slowly and correctly.

Quiet now means strong later.

You’re not holding them back—you’re building them for a lifetime.

*Copied from another Breeder*

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Miss Zoey & Mister Zeke are the last of Rose’s crew & they have joined their families this morning 🥹🤎 It was such a bles...
01/11/2026

Miss Zoey & Mister Zeke are the last of Rose’s crew & they have joined their families this morning 🥹🤎

It was such a blessing to raise & watch these babies grow. Wishing them all nothing but the best! 🫶🏼🐾

Kolby & Gracie 🤍🐾😍
01/10/2026

Kolby & Gracie 🤍🐾😍

PUPdate - Lido has settled in wonderfully. She has also learned “sit” already & has only been home for 3 days. 💕🐾
01/10/2026

PUPdate -

Lido has settled in wonderfully. She has also learned “sit” already & has only been home for 3 days. 💕🐾

PUPdate - Marble is doing great! She’s potty trained- sits by the door when she wants to go out, learning lots of comman...
01/10/2026

PUPdate -
Marble is doing great! She’s potty trained- sits by the door when she wants to go out, learning lots of commands- sit, down, come, touch, place, etc. Loves to play outside and at the beach and is starting to fetch the ball good.
She’s growing big- about 22 pounds now

🥰🤍🐾

01/09/2026

Bony will have a small litter
Expecting 4 maybe 5🤞🏼

Mabel is headed to Colorado 🥶❄️Mister Henry left today as well but I forgot to get his picture 😩 Wishing these babies a ...
01/08/2026

Mabel is headed to Colorado 🥶❄️

Mister Henry left today as well but I forgot to get his picture 😩
Wishing these babies a wonderful life!!

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