Category: Labradors

Blown Away, Lie in Wait, Baffled

Well, these are all the emotions that I felt this morning while we were at one of our favorite vet’s office with our magnificent trio waiting for the moment of truth and to learn whose ultrasound showed us what we have seen many many times here at HGT!  We were

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Labrador Pairings: Koko + Marcus…TY + JD

It is official – both of our beautiful chocolate labradors have been bred.  We wanted this blog to be about our dogs, our breeder friends & their sires and the HGT process. The fun has started here at HGT, but when the ultrasound shows puppy sacks, then the excitement is truly

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HGT’s Anticipated Time-Table for our Labrador Puppies :@) :@)

Chocolate Labrador Puppies – Planned Breedings

Our anticipated time-table for breeding our Labradors will be as follows (2/29/15 update):

 Ty…

March 2016: Ty has started her heat cycle and will be going in for her base-line progesterone test 3/1/16! Fingers-crossed!

We have all the results of: OFAs, PRA, CNM and coat color DNA done on Koko’s eldest

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How Many Dogs Does It Take To Change a Lightbulb?

I saw this joke re-written to reflect how each dog breed would answer this question, if they could.  Very funny – of course we love all the responses, but the Golden Retriever and Labrador Retriever responses are … spot-on :@) :@)

If I can borrow a quote from Emily Dickinson…

“They (dogs)

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LOVE Works but so does OBEDIENCE + AGILITY Training!

You need to give your HGT puppy something to do – and to do often.  A pat on the head, a bowl of fresh water, a loving word are all great and the puppy needs all of this but they also need some simple command training.  Your HGT pup already knows the

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