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 " Our Labs have Wonderful Temperament, Good Hunting Instincts and Fire, Fire, Fire! "

You will find Boundary Waters Labradors listed in the breeders directory of the AKC parent club of the Labrador Retriever: http://www.thelabradorclub.com/

 

We are honored to be mentioned in the Retrievers of The Past article - NFC Massie's Sassy Boots by Joule Charney  To read the article, just click on the following link - you will need to log into your Google account to view it: Retriever News September 2011

By God's grace this is the third article we have been privileged to be mentioned in regarding the legendary Mr. Joe DeLoia, we are proud to carry on his legacy! JOLOR is our AKC breed specific kennel name in honor of JOe & LORraine DeLoia, I co-own it with Mr. DeLoia.

 UPCOMING Litter: Kilo ex Pixie: Both parents and grandparents are excellent hunting companions, genetically sound and great family dogs.  The Dam of Our Upcoming Litter: Jolor's Pixie Blue SH. "Pixie" is OFA Excellent, CERF'd 2011, Elbows Normal, EIC & CNM Cleared. Pixie's dob 8/22/09: Pixie's accolades: She was a Test Dog at the Duluth Retriever Club in 2010. She became JH titled on 8/28/10, Pixie titled Senior Hunter in 2011. And just for fun; one time, we entered this very athletic dog, Pixie, into a Dock Dogs competition, she took 1st Place Big Air Junior. Pixie's sire is FC AFC Carbons Blue Pursuit, the Top Amateur Dog in the State of California 2011. "Blue" is qualified for his 4th National Amateur. He was a Nat'l Am finalist back in 2009 with his trainer/owner/handler: Missy Bell. We wish Blue and Missy 'All the Best' in Michigan this upcoming June of 2012! Pixie's mama is our own Sunny (a granddaughter of 1998 NFC Abe's Ebony & Ivory). The Sire of Our Upcoming Litter: Chico Listo's Kilo Tonic JH is from out of one of our own litters here at BWCA Labs, this breeding was planned with Kilo's owner Andres Gonzalez way back in 2003. We still have both of Kilo's parents here with us at BWCA Labs, Kilo is a full brother to our Sparkle, see her accolades below. Kilo's grandsires are FC AFC Gunstock's Butch from Winifox and FC AFC Rebel With a Cause. Kilo is an amateur trained and handled Junior Hunter. He has only run one SH test. Kilo ex Pixie Pups: Approximate Date of Birth: June 6th. Approx Pups Ready: July 25th. The pups will be priced at $600, with a $100 deposit required; leaving the balance of $500 due on placement day. We have 6 pre-sold - at the time of this updated information. Those 6 commitments, with deposits in are: Pick of the litter, regardless of gender or color to owner of sire (Duluth, MN), Yellow Female to Grimm (Eden Prairie, MN), Y/F (1st preference) or B/F to Olson (Culver, MN), Y/M (1st pref) or B/M to Brown (San Francisco, CA), Y/F to Geissler (Silver Bay, MN), Y/F, Y/M, B/F, or B/M to Geissler (Duluth, MN).

For pictures & pedigree see: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kilo-ex-Pixie/172040599547959

Kilo weighs 74 lbs and is a black Lab that is yellow factored. Pixie is also B/BY and weighs 55 pounds.

For Puppies Pedigree see: http://www.gooddoginfo.com/gdc/asp/viewpedigree.asp?DogNo=104167

 

 SPARKLE: BWCA Labs is glad to announce that "Sparkle" is titled Master Hunter, at 3 years and 4 months of age. "Jolor's Rejuvenator MH", Sparkle's dob: 4/5/2008: Sparkle is 60 lbs, B/BY, CHIC #: 77791,OFA: Excellent, Eyes CERF'd, Elbows & Thyroid Normal, EIC Carrier by parentage, CNM Cleared by parentage. Sparkle became a Master Hunter on her daddy's birthday: Aug 7th at the 2011 AKC Hunting Tests at The Duluth Retriever Club. She earned her Senior Hunt title in 4 tests (2010) and her 4 Qualifying AKC JH Ribbons, in four 2009 hunting tests. August 23rd, 2009, she won her 1st two Senior Hunt passes, Kelly Farms, in Marine at St. Croix. By June 2010, during the MIRRC Informal, she won 1st Place w/Trophy in Hunters Special and 3rd Place in Qualifying, again in 2011, Sparkle also went to the third series in our first ever Field Trial (MIRRC July 29-31, 2011). At MIRRC she won her 3rd & 4th Senior Passes. We want to give our sincere thanks to our Pro-Trainer & Handler: Mark Vossbein. We appreciate his talent, time & effort...Sparkle's first litter was sired by: NAFC Four Leaf's Ice Breaker. The puppies were born on July 13th, 2010. She became a mother of her 2nd litter on 12/2/11, this time her sire was FC AFC Badger State Ram Kicker.

 

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1 daughter: Lady (B) out of JJ ex Zesty (dob: 10/31/03)

1 great granddaughter: Sunny (Light Y dob: 9/8/04)

1 gr gr granddaughter: Pixie (Blue ex Sunny, dob: 8/22/09)

Jolor's JJ: June 11, 1991 to June 19, 2005 (Father's Day '05) 

We will all miss JJ beyond words & are forever grateful for the wonderful

people & puppies he has brought into our lives.

SUNNY: AKC #: SR20052704, Light Yellow Lab, 65 to 70 lbs, dob: 9/8/04: OFA Excellent, EIC Cleared VPI, CNM Cleared PIV, Eyes Cleared, and she is an excellent hunting companion. BWCA Lab's breeder owned her dam (Birdie), grandsire (Dirk) and great grandsire, JJ (all on her mother's side) Jolor's JJ was Joe DeLoia's last personal hunting companion. On her sire's side we have Jesse (of whom Joe DeLoia sent my way). Jesse is sired by 1998 NFC Abe's Ebony & Ivory.  Note of Interest: Sunny's last breeding brought us pups sired by FC AFC Carbons Blue Pursuit (owners Steve Kompf & Missy Bell) and Vickie Lamb owns two of those puppies...and we own one: "Pixie" who is already titled JH, with 2 SH passes.

(Both of whom trace back to 1956 NFC Massie's Sassy Boots) 

They are the sire and dam of three labs now owned by Joe and Lorraine DeLoia's family.

Here are some names you will find in Beau and Zesty's pedigree:

"BEAU": son of: "FC-AFC Gunstocks Butch From Winifox"
(Owner: of "Butch": Charlie and Yvonne Hays, are in The Retriever Hall of Fame for People)

(We purchased "Beau" from their daughter Lisa in Boise, ID)
"Beau's" dam's side: "FC-AFC Riparian Roughrider", "FC-AFC Candlewoods M D Houston"

Beau is now retried from our breeding program.

"ZESTY":
'Everybody' is titled in Zesty's first 3 generations, except her mother, who is a littermate to "FC-AFC JB's So Rude" (one is MH: Smokin' Juicy Lucy mother to "FC-AFC Super Pic")

 

Note: FC AFC Badger State Ram Kicker, NAFC FC AFC Four Leaf's Ice Breaker "Buster", FC AFC Carbons Blue Pursuit, a 2009 National Amateur Finalist & 2x NAFC FC Candlewoods Ramblin Man

Margo Penke is a Member of The Labrador Retriever Club

A Lifetime Member (2006) of two local retriever clubs in our area:

The Minnesota Iron Range Retriever Club and The Duluth Retriever Club

Boundary Waters Labrador was a long time partner of Working Retriever Central

In July of 2004 we made a donation to The Bird Dog Foundation, Inc. in Grand Junction, TN. It was a donation of

historic memorabilia about the sport of the purebred retriever relating to Mr Joe DeLoia and The DRC. Thank-you to Pert Wunderlich for previewing and approving this gift which was then donated to the new Retriever Building located at the foundation. The gift included 2 scrapbooks, a framed collage and a framed picture of Joe with four retrievers. It was a donation which could not have been made by us without Joe DeLoia's contribution!

BWCA Labs has been featured in The Retriever Journal Feb/Mar 2007 magazine (Included at the end of a 6 page story about Joe DeLoia, also featured in Sporting Classics) and Al Penke was featured in an newspaper article called: Hunting Dog Stories, thanks to "Birdie" (Duluth News Tribune, 9/21/08 issue of Northland Outdoors by Sam Cook)

If you can't have fun with it, why do it?