Trailrunners K9 Training Center & Labrador Retriever Dogs & Puppies

Trailrunners K9 Training Center & Labrador Retriever Dogs & Puppies Mission statement - “Trailrunners will breed the best working Labrador Retrievers possible, whose purpose is to serve and benefit mankind”

What is a “Trailrunner?”

The Original Trailrunners… Not that many years ago in nearly every indigenous society, certain ones were chosen for their speed, stamina, andintegrity, to be a “runner” (with news, message) to another village or tribe, sometimes even a great distance away. The only roads were trails in those days, and so those guys were the original “Trailrunners” In honor of them,

we wanted to name our dogs "Trailrunners" Labradors, because a good working dog has those very qualities of speed and stamina, and also because we choose to work withintegrity as we breed and train dogs, and work with our clients. Working Line Labs…
A Trailrunners Lab will not want to go lay down after a half a day’s work. Many Labradors today are actually bred to promote the “couch potato” temperament, but not ours! There is only a very small percentage of pure “working line labs” being bred today. Every lab we breed here has “Trailrunners” as part of the registered name and they live up to their name. Please see the testimonials of our “Satisfied Owners”. Hunt Test Titles…
In fact we don’t breed a dog, no matter how great the sire and dam were, unless they have a working title. (with the exception of Gideon who we acquired later in his life, but he is too good a dog to pass up for breeding) We run them in hunt tests, and obtain titles such as Junior Hunt, to Master Hunt. We have been developing our breeding lines carefully so that we have as many high quality, proven and titled working dogs as possible in the background of every pup/dog.

“On Off Dogs”…
We also have worked to develop dogs that are calm with people, but high energy when they work. This is more than an ideal, it is an actual temperament trait that we have worked to build into every Trailrunners pup. We call these "on off dogs". In size Trailrunners labs are "medium”. Black, Yellow, Chocolate, Fox Red…
We breed all colors including Fox Red. In addition to being uniquely beautiful, our Fox Reds have great pedigrees and proven working abilities, exactly as we uphold for all of our dogs. We do not recommend or breed “silver” or “charcoal” Labs. Healthy beyond skin deep…
Health wise, all dogs are certified good or excellent in hips/elbows (OFA) and eyes are cleared (CERF). We feed 100% raw WHOLE diet (nature's way) for longevity and superb disease resistance. Moms produce healthier pups and pups are calmer when mom eats this food. We have tried many high end (cooked, dry)dog foods and none compare. Allergies disappear, teeth are clean, and "cleanup" is minimized. Dogs are virtually cancer proof. The pups as well… start their lives after being weaned on raw food. The pups are born and raised in our home and go to new homes already very accustomed to human interaction. They are paper trained, along with immunization/de-worming, CKC regd. and tattooed and more. Cancer Detecting Dogs…
Trailrunners is home to Canada’s first team of Cancer Detecting Labradors, We have 5 dogs that work daily in screening cancer patients (using samples that are sent in, the patients do not come in person) We are seeing the dogs do amazing work in this field. it certainly fits our mission statement, “Trailrunners will breed the best working Labrador Retrievers possible, whose purpose is to serve and benefit mankind”

Chris and Fran Oudshoorn are full time managers and trainers, and including our 2 teens we have 6 other staff to help with the duties of cleaning, feeding, ”scooping” and letting the dogs in and out of yards. If you are interested in any of our Labrador trained adults (hunting, detection, companion, therapy dogs) or pups, please remember that we screen every inquiry/home for every dog/ pup we sell, and also evaluate each pup to go to the home best suited. Please contact Chris or Fran in person, 1 306 469 8009 - 1 888 939 8009, or [email protected]

03/03/2025

Getting around quite well now.

02/25/2025

Getting bigger and stronger. they gain their strength through pushing each other and resistance of the others pushing as well! Nature is beautiful.

02/23/2025

What happens when your Retriever booth is set up next to the bean bag toss at the Calgary Boat & Outdoors Show.

2 weeks old now!
02/22/2025

2 weeks old now!

Clover is a lovely and huge Mastiff who is missing mommy and daddy - as they have gone somewhere warm - Clover was here ...
02/16/2025

Clover is a lovely and huge Mastiff who is missing mommy and daddy - as they have gone somewhere warm - Clover was here for training for aggression and anxiety issues a couple
years ago and since then has been coming back
for boarding. She used to charge and lunge at people she did not know, (when she first
came for training) We or anyone else could not touch her and had to watch you wouldn’t be attacked. Despite all that, her owner recently said “She is a completely different dog since having received your training. It was the best thing we could have done. It's such a relief to know we have a place we can take her that understands her and that we can trust she will be well taken care of.” While at the Pet Resort, Clover stays in a warm vip room, she only looks frosted like this because she was out for a brief playtime with Leo, a Dalmatian also in for boarding.

Shadow waiting for Toodie to go by. Toodie helps when we are teaching dogs to be non reactive The main goal in most of...
02/15/2025

Shadow waiting for Toodie to go by. Toodie helps when we are teaching dogs to be non reactive The main goal in most of the training here is to have the dog be more responsive to commands &cues from the handler - instead of just living for their own whims and instinct drive.

We have got the best chocolates around! Trailrunners Chocolate Labradors! Happy St. Valentines Day!
02/14/2025

We have got the best chocolates around! Trailrunners Chocolate Labradors!
Happy St. Valentines Day!

Here are some of the dogs in training right now… We are thankful for all of the clients who continue to trust us to trai...
02/14/2025

Here are some of the dogs in training right now… We are thankful for all of the clients who continue to trust us to train their
dogs. We’ve been changing dog’s lives and helping the families who own them for a long time. It’s just incredible how many of the dogs we get for training and behaviour rehab now come from past clients who had their last or
last two or three dogs trained at Trailrunners over the years. And many of the others are from word of mouth recommendations through past clients. Then there are a few who come by reading our Google Reviews, and the others find us on Facebook or Instagram through posts like these. Thanks everyone for your support over the years, for telling friends about us, posting great reviews, trusting us with your dogs, and mostly just for following through with everything you learned at Trailrunners, to keep your dogs as a top level K9 citizens, and perfect family members! If i missed your dog in these photos let me know and I will share them as well.
The ones not on here yet are a group of 6 Trailrunners lab pups (most of them siblings) back for training from 5 separate households!

Trailrunners Roary is back at Trailrunners for training. He sure has grown in the short time he has been here already!
02/10/2025

Trailrunners Roary is back at Trailrunners for training. He sure has grown in the short time he has been here already!

02/09/2025

Pepper had this nice mix of chocolate and black pups! Five in total they are large, vigorous, and healthy. Mom gives excellent care.

02/07/2025

What snow training is like. Interestingly the dogs prefer NOT swimming as the ponds are frozen and their main goal is to get the bird back as quickly as possible. Swimming is slower going so in water takes longer for the dog to follow the handler’s directions or get across the pond than on hard ground! Swimming water will be back soon enough!

Sampson faithfully sleeping by our door, several days ago with Solo, the Czech Shepherd.
02/07/2025

Sampson faithfully sleeping by our door, several days ago with Solo, the Czech Shepherd.

Cold weather? Why let that stop us. The dogs live for this and so do their trainers!
02/06/2025

Cold weather? Why let that stop us. The dogs live for this and so do their trainers!

Here are Trailrunners Maddie, and Lily as well on a nice winter pose near Prince Albert with Ingrid Wessels. Lovely wel...
02/05/2025

Here are Trailrunners Maddie, and Lily as well on a nice winter pose near Prince Albert with Ingrid Wessels. Lovely well mannered and well trained dogs!

Pepper is getting pretty huge. Within the next week, we should be able to see her contents in living colors.
02/04/2025

Pepper is getting pretty huge. Within the next week, we should be able to see her contents in living colors.

Here’s a lovely winter pose of Trailrunners Maddie and Lily too, belonging to Ingrid Wessels and Johann WesselsWe get to...
01/31/2025

Here’s a lovely winter pose of Trailrunners Maddie and Lily too, belonging to Ingrid Wessels and Johann Wessels
We get to see these dogs a lot and it’s good to see how mature & well trained they have turned out to be! Not to mention so healthy & happy.

Sometimes you just gotta do office work - and sometimes somebody needs to help as well. Like Toodie.
01/30/2025

Sometimes you just gotta do office work - and sometimes somebody needs to help as well. Like Toodie.

01/29/2025

This is how we train Gun Dogs in Canada, in the winter. The dogs LOVE running in the snow for frozen ducks! You can see the tracked machines (containing 8 dogs between the two of them) driving by the "ponds" in which the dogs have just run. You can see in the snow the tracks they made across the "water" that they will later swim in, once the ice is gone in the summer. This is one of Trailrunner's technical training ponds which we utilize year-round.

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Getting around quite well now.

Getting bigger and stronger. they gain their strength through pushing each other and resistance of the others pushing as well! Nature is beautiful.

What happens when your Retriever booth is set up next to the bean bag toss at the Calgary Boat & Outdoors Show.

Pepper had this nice mix of chocolate and black pups! Five in total they are large, vigorous, and healthy. Mom gives excellent care.

What snow training is like. Interestingly the dogs prefer NOT swimming as the ponds are frozen and their main goal is to get the bird back as quickly as possible. Swimming is slower going so in water takes longer for the dog to follow the handler’s directions or get across the pond than on hard ground! Swimming water will be back soon enough!

This is how we train Gun Dogs in Canada, in the winter. The dogs LOVE running in the snow for frozen ducks! You can see the tracked machines (containing 8 dogs between the two of them) driving by the "ponds" in which the dogs have just run. You can see in the snow the tracks they made across the "water" that they will later swim in, once the ice is gone in the summer. This is one of Trailrunner's technical training ponds which we utilize year-round.

Try and guess how many pups and what colours they will be… Trailrunners Pepper is big and round - and so in a week or two we will see them. Last litter she had all three colours of the Labrador Retriever in her litter… Black Yellow, & Chocolate... and likely will again.

Why would someone fly with their dog from Ontario to Saskatchewan to bring it to a trainer? Listen to Craig as he explains why he did.

Heres Trailrunners Summer and Button, sisters, both back for training at the same time, asking calmly and politely to come in for training and their breafast!

There are many dogs in at Trailrunners for training since the new year, their resolution is “We will be incredibly awesome dogs”! Heres Charger, Mocha, and Bandit learning to run on the treadmill today as they do every day while here for training.

Trailrunners Kona from the Guage and Lola litter is 6 months old, and if she was not a beloved pet already she could be a star detection K9 !

Ziggy is showing us all how to run on the treadmill when you love staring at cats, and know Toodie the cat is over there.

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