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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you share which lab breeder you are using?[/quote]

Thunder Labradors out of Wisconsin.

My sister has two rescued Newfies (including one who is blind), and urged me not to get a rescue with the age of my children, which was consistent with the discussions I had with the rescue group itself.  My sister is a dog lover's dog lover.  I am comfortable with my decision and recognize that this means I really do have to do potty training AGAIN.  If this was about my convenience, I would be getting a local house-broken adult dog, not flying half-way across the country for a pup I will have to teach everything to.

When I am looking for my next lab after this one, which will hopefully not be for many years, I will adopt from Potomac Rescue.[/quote]

Are you sure Thunder Labrador is a "reputable" breeder?  I just looked at their website and they sound more like a puppy mill.  I hope you did your homework before you have a puppy shipped from them.  Their health guarantee sounds meaningless because they do not have pedigree and clearance information of the boys or girls (not even listed on the page) and because the warranty runs out long before most of those problems will be diagnosed in most labs.  Good luck.  [/quote]

Thank you for your concern.  Thunder Labradors is not a puppy mill.  I am not having a "dog shipped"; my husband is flying out personally to inspect and select.  If you knew about dog genetics, you would know that for the conditions where the mother's pedigree is silent, it requires that both parents be carriers for the pup to be affected.  Sort of like how I am a carrier for CF but my husband is not.  I received a detailed questionnaire from Richard Spike before he would accept my deposit.  Most puppy mills sell to to pet stores.  The stud dog pedigree is there, btw, so I wonder how carefully you looked at the site.  I have had a number of extended phone coversations with the breeder, Richard Spike.

But, please, take all the pot shots you want.  Just a month ago, I held my dying Lab in my arms while I sat on the floor at Friendship, singing the song I made up for him while he was a puppy.  I was by myself - my husband was not available to go.  This past weekend I spead his ashes at his favorite spot in the mountains.  That dog - that incredible amazing fabulous dog - was bought for about $250 from a rural farm in South Carolina as a Christmas present to my then-fiance and now DH through an ad my in-laws found in the paper.  The owners of his parents were not professional breeders, and he didn't have a champion title to his name.  My in-laws didn't check DNA, they didn't check the pedigree, they didn't do squat.  But please, feel free to piss all over my new dog all you want.  Maybe you're right and this is a crappy dog we are getting and he is doomed to get something horrible the second he arrives in DC and my $1,000 is for naught.  That's a chance I am prepared to take.  If Richard Spike is a con man, he sure spent a lot of time talking to this "mark" as she sobbed about her dead Lab.[/quote]

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