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Hello and welcome to Hickory Hill Silver Labs. My name is Carrie I
am located in the beautiful state of Arkansas. I hope you enjoy your
visit with us. I have been breeding Labradors for 11 years now. All
my Labradors are AKC registered. My labs are mostly the English
Labrador which is the stocky built lab. The English Lab is calmer
and easy to handle and train un like the American Lab that is tall
and more narrow bodied and narrow headed. My Labrador females
only have 1 litter a year. The females that I have were chosen for
their temperments and genetic back grounds also Intelligence and
conformation true to the breed. My females must be very Loving
and calm and great mothers. My males were also chosen for their
temperment, genetics and Intelligence and conformation true to the
breed. My males must be calm and easy going. I like a male that
will sit and play with a young puppy as gentle and easy as not to
hurt the pup. My puppies come with a written 1 year health
guarantee against genetic disease. My puppies are on a strict
de-worming schedule starting at the age of 2 weeks. I start their
vaccine schedule at 5 weeks old. When you get a puppy he will have
had 2 shots already. My puppy's dew-claws are removed at 2 to 3
days old by a licensed veterinary. Shipping is available. Puppies
must be 8 weeks old to ship. My puppies also come with their AKC
puppy registration papers, Pedigree, Written Health Guarantee,
Shot and de-worming records. Your new puppy will also come with
a puppy pack with informational papers on house breaking,
poisonous plants etc. Also a CD with pictures as the litter grows. A
scent blanket with moms scent on it. Various toys. Puppy treats, a
sample bag of puppy food that your puppy has been eating and a
collar. Thanks for looking at my beautiful Labradors. Come back
and visit any time.

The Labrador Retriever is a strongly built, medium- size,
short-coupled, dog possessing a sound athletic, well balanced
conformation that enables it to function as a retrieving gun dog; the
substance and soundness to hunt waterfowl and upland game for
long hours under diffuclit conditions; the charactor and quality to
win in the show ring., and the temperament to be a family
companion. Physical features and mental characteristics should
denote a dog bred to perform as an effcient Retriever of game with a
stable temperament suitable for a variety of pursuits beyond the
hunting environment.

The most distinguishing characteristics of the Labrador Retriever
are its short dense water resistant coat, an "otter"
tail, a clean cut head with broad back skull and moderate stop,
powerful jaws, and its kind friendly eyes expressing character,
intelligence and good temperament.

Labrador Retriever History

The Labrador Retriever despite its name, did not come from
Labrador, but from Newfoundland. The area was populated with
small water dogs. who, when bred to the Newfoundlands, produced
a breed referred to as the St. Johns Water Dogs. prototype for the
Lab of today.

DID YOU KNOW ?

The Labrador Retriever did not come from Labrador, but from
Newfoundland.

In England, no Labrador can become a bench show companion
unless it has a working certificate also.

The Labrador Retriever is one of the prime breeds selected as a
guide and rescue dogs.

The orginal Labrador gradually died out in Newfoundland on
account of a heavy dog tax which, with the English quarantine law,
practically stopped important of the dogs into England. Therefore,
many Labs were interbred with other types of retrievers, although
fortunatley the Labrador characteristics predominated until
fanciers wrote up an anti-interbreeding law.

The pedigrees of the two most influential Labs "Peter of Faskally"
and "Flapper" go back as far as 1878.