Our Breeding Stock
We focus on health checks, genetic testing, and careful pairings to prevent inherited problems. Clean homes, good nutrition, and early socialization raise confident puppies. Temperament matters—we choose steady, curious, confident dogs to integrate into our breeding program to produce English Labradors with the temperament and size to create a dog with high service animal potential.
We do PENN hip and OFA screenings on all our potential breeders before they have puppies. We can share this information if you are interested. In addition all of our breeding stock is genetically tested for CM, CY (LR), DM, EIC, HNPK, HUU, PKD, PRA, RD/OSD and SD2. We will replace or offer you a refund, at our discretion, if one of our pups is diagnosed with hip or elbow dysplasia prior to 18 months of age.
Most of the dogs we train and place as service dogs come from our very own kennels in beautiful, rural, Cody Wyoming. In pursuing a quality training program, we have set for ourselves a limit as to how many dogs we can train at one time. As a result of this decision, we sell our "extra" pups at eight weeks. We have two to four litters a year, producing chocolates, yellows, and blacks. Our breeding stock is premium quality out of Chilbrook Kennels in West Virginia and Kelly Green’s Labradors in Nevada. They have been specifically bred towards a service dog temperament. Service dogs must be settled, yet attentive at the same time. They must have the ability to learn self control, and have what we call an "off switch", meaning, they need to be able to settle when asked. For instance, a service dog from our program must be able to stay under the table at a restaurant for an extended period of time without being a distraction. They also come from fantastic show and hunt lines and excel at any job you put them to.
All of this careful breeding creates fantastic pups with great personalities!
Retired
Bailey
This wonderful yellow was our first stud dog and he also worked as our son’s first Type 1 Diabetics service dog. He is sorely missed…
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Jackie
Focused, and driven Jackie was an incredible addition to DutyDogs. She produced many working dogs and loved to hunt in her free time.
Chilbrook's JacquelineMocha
Duty Dogs MochaA truly wonderful boy Mocha was an incredible part of the family. He was so chill and calm you would never know he was an intact male. He was placed with a young family to live out his days.
Duty Dogs IcyIcy
Friendly, attentive, and always ready to play ball, Icy was so fun to have around. She produced many top performing service dogs for us and was purchased by Chilbrook Kennels.