River Retrievers LLC

12/03/2024

🐊hatchlings are here!! For as big as the house hippo🦛 was, she only gave us a few big, healthy, and strong ones.
I’ll be reaching out soon to those that sent in apps.

12/03/2024

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

12/02/2024

⚡️Boomer⚡️ and his new handler, Blake Hansen, set off for the Perry, Georgia Winter Wonderland cluster on Thursday and ended up winning 🏆 Best of Breed🏆 all 4 days!!!
I am so excited to see them do so well as they will be showing together next year while I focus on breeding, raising, and training the next generation

11/22/2024

11/05/2024

The one and only, CH🐊Gator🐊 SH. 7 years young and still looks amazing! 🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎

11/04/2024

After a month of shows being canceled due to storms, Boomer and I went to Gulfport for the weekend. He was 🏆Best of Breed🏆 both days and picked up a ♥️Sporting Group 2♥️

10/31/2024

IT’S OFFICIAL! BOOMER HAS AN INVITE TO WESTMINSTER 2025!!!!
Thank you so much to the entire village of people that made this possible and to all the judges that pointed to our boy!!!!!!

THE WESTMINSTER INVITATIONS HAVE BEEN MAILED; INVITED LISTS ARE POSTED HERE: https://m.infodog.com/show/westminster/breed.htm

10/21/2024

•Pet your dog, all the time
•Talk to your dog, all the time
•Allow your dog to follow you, all the time
•Allow your dog to be on your lap or laying on your feet, all the time
•Pet, soothe, comfort your dog when it whines or barks for attention...or is simply anxious
•Allow your dog to demand affection/interactions
•Be emotionally dependent on your dog to the point that unhealthy dependency and interactions are no longer noticed
•Allow your dog to do whatever it wants, whenever it wants—aka, provide no structure, rules, or accountability
•Foster an environment of chaos, stress, and anxiety
•Refuse to train and pattern calmness
•Refuse to crate train your dog
•Refuse to correct your dog when inappropriate behavior occurs
•Refuse to train your dog how to be independent/alone by using a “Place” command, “Downstay, and/or “away” time in the crate
•Let your dog out of the crate when it whines or barks
•Avoid training or anything that makes your dog temporarily uncomfortable or unhappy—in other words, cater to your dog’s every desire/need, designing your life around your dog, rather than having your dog fit into yours
•And many, many more...

Basically, baby, soothe, allow, enable, disable, lean on, omit teaching necessary life skills, prioritize what feels good for you rather than what does good for your dog, and through this master plan of leadership-free chaos, and systematic cultivation of creating a toxic dependency between dog and human...you’ll ensure that when you leave, your dog will be a true emotional mess, because you haven’t prepared them to be calm, obedient, strong, resilient, robust, independent, and alone.

10/17/2024

WE DID IT!!!!! GCHS Westlane’s Lightning Crashes ⚡️Boomer⚡️ stayed in the TOP 5 he should qualify for an invitation to WESTMINSTER 2025!!!!!!!!

10/15/2024

River’s Fishing For A Compliment “A-Net” aka Netty 🖤 (CH Hiddensprings Representative Claybar MH & IntCH River’s Hook Line & Sinker JH CGCA CGCU FDC ATT)
Waiting patiently for her to come in season and be bred to Boomer 🤪

10/13/2024

⚡️Boomer⚡️ Netty and Marina all giving sweet baby Vivian some love ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

10/13/2024

⚡️BoomTastic⚡️ helping with the cleanup.
Power was restored overnight so we’ll get back to normal shortly.

10/11/2024

Cell service is spotty at best. We are all good. The true miracle is zero damage! Hope everyone else faired well too. ♥️

10/09/2024

Just a quick word. We are in Brooksville, just north of Tampa right of I75. We will not be affected by storm surge. It looks like, at this time, we will be on the north side, which is best case for this storm. The winds will be no joke and we will likely have some damage and be without power for some time. The dogs will all be in the van under cover. They’ll be plugged into power with a whole home generator, they’ll be quite comfortable as they are all used to traveling. We are hunkering down next door at my aunt’s newly built home. We feel that is the safest place for all of us.
We hope all of you in the path, that have chosen to stay, please be safe.
We’ll check in some time Thursday.

09/28/2024

⚡️Boomer⚡️ was Best Opposite today to the beautiful Vera. Since we didn’t have to go back for groups we were able to update his eye clearance, all Normal and good for another year ☺️