Trained Puppies & Dogs Available
Please email to see if we have a puppy available that we have not posted yet.
Some of these puppies will be trained at our Kennel in Sebastopol, CA,
or at our Crescent, Oklahoma kennel.
Yellow Female
DOB 6-27-24
This sweet, quiet girl has finished our Started Puppy Training program and is ready for her new family.
Lovely girl with an easy temperament and a gentle way about her. Well socialized with other dogs and people, crate trained and is great on a leash. She would be considered service quality and would do well in a home that needs a steady companion or working dog.
Click here to see photos of her litter and parents.
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1 Boy and 2 Girls available
DOB 7-5-24
These littermates have finished our Started Puppy Training Program and are ready for their new family. Wonderful dogs to train! Easy calm temperament, quick to learn and so eager to please!
They are crate trained, walk calmly on leash. Sit and wait for food and are great company to have around. They love people and are well socialized with other dogs.
Click here to see photos and pedigree
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Yellow Boys available
from our Started Puppy Training Program.
DOB 8-1-24
These two lovely boys are available from our Started Puppy Training Program. They will finish training November 22, 2024 and ready for their new family.
They are the classic English Labrador, square head, strong thick body and that beautiful otter tail. Very social, kind boys that have all that we love about Labradors in their little bodies! They have that wonderful Labrador temperament, calm, easy to be around and eager to please.
The mother of these puppies is a certified service dog for a local elementary school. She works with special needs children and also as emotional support animal for children having a difficult day.
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Yellow Girls Available
DOB 8-20-24
These girls will finish our Started Puppy Training Program 12-10-24. They are the perfect example of the traditional English Labrador. Great color, wonderful double coat with that beautiful square head and otter tail. Their temperament is exceptional, calm, easy to train and a joy to live with. They are well socialized with other dogs and people.
Click here to see photos and pedigree
Click here for application
This program is for family's that want a puppy with some basic obedience and manners.
Our Positive Reinforcement methods help to build a relationship with respect and trust, not fear and punishment. We use treats, toys, praise - whatever your dog finds rewarding. These methods help to create dogs that are happy and enthusiastic to learn. This method of training often provides quality, long-lasting results. You may also want to sign up for a course with the American Kennel Club to get a head start with your training when you bring your puppy home, click here to sign up for the free coarse.
Each puppy enjoys our special area built just for our training program, their own clean, comfortable crate and individual kennel. We encourage our puppy's family to send a sturdy stuffed animal and/or bedding that your puppy will sleep with and will take to his/her new home. This makes the transition from our kennel to the puppy's new home much easier.
Areas we focus on:
- Crate training
- Sleeps all night in crate.
- Location potty training using artificial turf
- Introduce walking calmly on leash
- Heel on leash with minimal pulling, including following the handler when turning left and right.
- Sit automatically when handler stops walking.
- Walks politely without jumping up on people or sniffing excessively at humans.
- Sit, stay & come
- Sit, Sit and stay.
- Come directly into front center of handler when called.
- Discourage jumping
- Verbal command off or down. Knee correction.
- Allows a stranger to pet while puppy stays in a sit position.
- Puppy will not get up, jump or bark when a stranger approaches or while it is being petted.
- Wait
- Wait at gates and doorways until verbal command lets go
- Wait for food dish to be place on floor and verbal command OK or puppy's name to eat
- Walking up & down stairs
- Bait training
- Rewards puppy for learning a new command.
- Teaches a soft mouth.
- After command is successfully learned reward is transitioned to petting and "good dog"
- Nipping & mouthing corrections
- Medium squeeze of mouth with a no command.
- Socialized with other dogs & lots of people
- Socializes with all dogs here including adult dogs.
- Learning dog pack manners.
- Quiet
- Using the word quiet to stop excessive barking.
Our Started Puppies in our training program are trained to qualify for their Canine Good Citizen Certificate and most puppies/dogs will qualify for this certificate at the end of our program.
We are fortunate to have American Kennel Club evaluators on site at our Sebastopol, CA kennel and also at our Oklahoma kennel, that are able to perform the CGC test. Clients will be able to take the test on the day you take your Started puppy home and submit the application to the American Kennel Club to have this title added to their puppies pedigree.
The Canine Good Citizen Program lays the foundation for other fun AKC activities such as AKC Rally, Obedience, Tracking, Agility and a new addition- the AKC Therapy Dog title.
For more information about CGC Certificates and qualifications click here
Please remember that these are Started Puppies, they will need to continue in training when they go into their new family home to establish good habits that will carry on into adulthood. As with children, they will test you to see if you know what they can do. These puppies have learned to learn and are eager to please you. Enjoy them as much as we have!
All of our puppies are registered with the American Kennel Club, micro-chipped and enrolled in the AKC ReUnite program. AKC registration will be completed by Kentfield Kennels and all documents will be sent directly to the new owners via email and USPS a short time after the puppy has gone home with its new family.
Puppies will have a complete puppy packet including information on the first series of shots, worming schedule and medication that has been given that you will need to share with your vet. A written guarantee, and the basic schedule of sleeping and feeding that the puppy has been raised on will also be some of the information in your puppy packet.
We only take a few puppies at a time in this program. This assures that your puppy will get the time it needs to become a well trained puppy ready for your family. We have found that our excellent puppy raising from the day the puppy is born makes our training program quite unique and the quality and success our puppies have when they go home after 8 weeks of training is evident. Puppies are also trained at our Oklahoma Kennel that is managed by our middle son Jake and his wife Maile. The Oklahoma facility is a working 40 acre horse and cattle ranch that gives some of our clients dogs training around large animals and horse barn. We are also able to start hunting dogs at the Oklahoma kennel with live bird shot and water work also.
