Kellner Labradors

22/08/2025

Seeing this reminds me why we do what we do.

20/08/2025

It has been a few days since Blackberry's ultrasound and we were shocked to find out that there was no evidence of conception. We know from the progesterone testing that she ovulated and her recent phyisical in July showed she is in excellent health. Everything with Cash was as expected as well. The TCI was performed on the optimal day. We can only say that it was just not meant to be. All of our wait list clients have been notifed and we will move forward with our plans for an early spring litter in 2026. We are pretty bummed. All of us were excited for puppies, but we trust in God's timing and plans for our lives.

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03/08/2025

I know you all have been waiting for news on our 2025 litter. Blackberry is most certainly showing signs up pregnancy. We have her ultrasound to confirm pregnancy, generaly health for the puppies and Blackberry, and to get a rough puppy count on August 15th!

Grace and I were walking the yard with the dogs this weekend and she mentioned how excited she is for this litter. I am too, but always just a little anxious until they get here safely and our momma dog is ok. Then the first two-three weeks of monitoring puppy weights, momma's health, milk, ESI, ENS, and making sure everyone gets plenty of love is a little tense for me. At three weeks, they will start their mush. Their messy faces and cute noises far outweigh the stinky poos that comes with weaning and I start to relax once they are out of the neonate stage. We will do our puppy assessments starting at four weeks and ending when they go home.

This one is a little bittersweet as it will be Blackberry's last litter before we retire her to chasing ducks and keeping the other girls in line. This is our 'E' litter, so feel free to drop some of your favorite names that start with the letter 'E" and then see if they make the cut once puppies arrive.

Website is up to date, other than I still need to add Liberty's info...but that is for another day.

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24/07/2025

Caramel and I did one of our visits today. I usually don’t take photos there for privacy reasons but she looks so cute in this ‘comic’ lens. Then at home she got to have a short therapy session with Ben. 🐾❤️🐾

Blackberry and Cash are hopefully expecting puppies mid September. We confirm her pregnancy mid-August. Liberty and Posy have been loving playing in the water and playing fetch. Libby really missed me while I was gone for 2 1/2 weeks. She will hardly leave my side when we are all outside playing together.

26/06/2025

Blackberry has started her heat cycle! If you are on our waitlist for this litter, check your emails! We will reconfirm everyone since the timing was not what we had anticipated. If all goes as expected from here, puppies will arrive mid-September and go home mid-November. Here's a picture William took of Blackberry this week with our blackberry patch in the backgroud. He's sumbitting it to our local fair. I think he did a pretty great job!

19/05/2025

Still waiting for Blackberry to start her heat cycle. She is in good health, just waiting on nature to do it's thing. I will be reaching out to our waitlist again since the timing is now very different than what we expected. Thanks for your patience.

03/04/2025

Still waiting on Blackberry to come into heat. Nature trumps science so we try to be patient for her timing. I’ll be reaching out to our waitlist families as soon as we sees signs of her heat.

12/03/2025

We are so thankful for this weather! Check out Libby and Ben working with such focus while the kids are working on soccer. This type of focus with such a big distraction is awesome!

27/01/2025

18/01/2025

This is something fun to try with your pups! I am not certain we can get to 14 on them with any of our dogs, but I think I am going to try. If we get some good videos, I will post them here. Feel free to do the same with your dogs (even if they aren't labradors....LOL)

Earn your limited time “My Furry Valentine” title by performing 14 of the puppy-love tricks. Super swag includes matching certificate, ribbon, rosette, sticker, bandana, and Tshirt. Submit photos or video to a Certified Trick Dog Instructor (CTDI).
https://domorewithyourdog.com/DogTricks/product/my-furry-valentine/

18/01/2025

After much discussion, we have our litter plans for 2025! If you are on our waitlist, we will be reaching out to you this weekend to confirm your continued interest and go over the timing of the litter. Please let me know if you want to be added to our waitlist. As a reminder, we do not accept deposits until we confirm the pregnancy.

08/01/2025

Caramel and I doing our thing. Getting geared up to work with all the dogs on some new behaviors/tricks. I am going to try to do better about posting what we are up to this year outside of our litters. With puppies there is always something cute or new to share. I struggle with what to share about our big dogs. What would you like to see or know?