Labradors of the Valley

01/04/2025

Ucla-2
Dogmom-0
I’m a pushover, apparently.

01/04/2025

Ucla 1
Dog mom 0

01/04/2025

Someone is being a stubborn jerk though I can’t fault her. Ucla loves to do her business in private. However, we have to limit her walking during recovery so we can’t let her walk way over to her favorite spot. She also does not like being watched (who does?) so I put her leash on a stick and went inside to watch from the window. She decided she would rather chew herself free than p**p in public.

We are having a battle of wills, this girl and I.

Otherwise her recovery has been nothing short of amazing 🤩. The vets said she is recovering at the rate of a young dog.

12/24/2024

I don’t know about y’all but all our dogs have their “spots” in the house. Canada’s is the inside corner of our couch. Whenever something or someone is on her spot she stares at them like she’s personally offended. Today, the pole is the offender so she’s mad do***ng it.

12/23/2024

Ucla has to live in a crate for her recovery which she obviously doesn’t like since she’s used to free ranging on 3 acres. We have to bribe her to go in with “cookies.”

Our toddler granddaughter is here for the weekend and has quickly figured out that if you get in a crate you get cookies so guess who keeps going in the crate next to Ucla so she can get cookies? Though it is probably the safest place to eat in the house if she wants to keep her food.🤣

12/21/2024

It was a long night as I slept by her crate while she worked all the drugs from surgery out. I’m exhausted but she is already back to her happy, wiggly self and that is all that matters. 🥹

And best vet ever came by to check on her and take her out. Ucla has never met a human that didn’t adore her.

12/21/2024

Absolutely amazing place, hands down.

12/21/2024

Our precious old girl tore her ACL a few weeks ago. We have no idea how and she had a barely noticeable limp. We have been blessed with such a kind and caring vet for the last 30 years. Today was surgery day and not only did our vet find the best surgeon he picked her up at 6 this morning, brought her to the surgeon 2 hours away, stayed with her during the entire surgery, and then brought her home to us. He helped her get settled and will come by tomorrow again.
Ucla is my best girl and I intend to have her live forever (I wish). For being 13 years old, she is in phenomenal shape and hopefully the surgery will keep her that way.
Send positive, healing thoughts to our girl💛💙💛

11/16/2024

10/17/2024

It’s been a difficult 24 hours in the valley.

Prika started labor yesterday and gave birth to a very large stillborn male at 7:45pm….almost 2 pounds large. We stayed up with her all night with no puppies. At 1 am we took her to the emergency vet as she was showing no signs of laboring at all…snoring, eating, and pottying even though the X-rays said 3-4 puppies. The emergency vet said she didn’t seem stressed and to give her longer so we came back home. Our regular vet saw her early this morning and said there was only 1 more puppy with no detectable heartbeat. 😕

We had the option of inducing contractions or c-section to remove the puppy. After deep thought, we opted to do a c-section and spay. Above all else, our dogs are our companions and their health is paramount in every decision we make. This was Prika’s first litter and there was too many things that didn’t go right. Spaying her was the right choice for all of us to ensure Prika is with us for many more years.

She is staying at the vet overnight after the spay which revealed another very large male. She is doing very well and will come home in the morning. In all our litters, this was the first major health issue we’ve had so we are struggling a bit, questioning what we could have done different. Ultimately, Mother Nature calls the shots and we must accept that.

We have not decided what 2025 holds for us so for now we will just enjoy the coming holiday season. 💙 💙

Oh and apparently Cane makes primarily boys….26 puppies and only 5 girls. 🤦🏻‍♀️

10/14/2024

Less than a week! Puppy watch starts Tuesday❤️

09/20/2024

Baby Prika😍😍 She reminds me of Scooby-Doo. I can’t wait to see her babies faces.

09/18/2024

Labradors of the Valley is happy to announce our upcoming litter of yellow puppies!This is a Cane and Paprika litter due around 10/15/2024 with go home dates in mid -December (8 weeks from birth). Paprika had an ultrasound on 9/13/24. It appears to be a small litter of 3-5 with a possibility of twins (two puppies in one sac). This does make her pregnancy more risky so we are taking only 3 deposits for the litter at this time for either 2 males/1 female or 1 male/2 females, based on deposit order.

We are very, very excited about this pairing as both Paprika and Cane are beautiful dogs with phenomenal temperaments. These will be solid bench labs with the stockier body and full head. Since Cane is pale cream and Paprika is fox red the puppies can be any shade of yellow, much like a printer running out of ink. You can find pictures of Paprika and Cane on our website at www.labradorsofthevalley.com as well as on our here. We try to update our page regularly when expecting a litter.

An announcement email has gone out to puppy applicantions on file. If you have an application on file and would like to place a deposit please contact us via email or text/phone. If you are interested in a puppy please go to our website and complete a puppy application.

Puddles has a reproduction appointment next week so we can ascertain her next heat to plan for an all chocolate litter soon. We are accepting applications for that litter as well.

Labradors Of The Valley breeds field and bench labradors in yellow, black, and chocolate.

08/30/2024

Well…no puppies for Miss Canada so we will do AI for her next heat in January-ish. We do still have our fingers crossed for Miss Paprika which would be an all yellow litter….from pale cream to fox red. Ultrasound scheduled for September 13.

Puddles (chocolate) has her appointment with the reproduction doctor next week to see why she hasn’t had a heat in a year. We found the perfect chocolate stud for her so hoping for a simple fix.

I have not sent out any emails as we weren’t too optimistic about Canada. If Prika is pregnant we will send out the weekend after. I’ve been waiting 3 years for a Prika/Cane litter so 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼Keep reminding me I can’t keep any!

08/27/2024

Canada’s x-ray is scheduled for Friday. She’s looking a bit wider but not enough to make me think she is pregnant.😩 It is probably just the extra food we are feeding her in case she is but I’ll still cross my fingers!

08/15/2024

Updates finally!!!
Canada had an ultrasound last week. We could see sacs but we aren’t sure it is a viable pregnancy. It is either a late implantation or she is reabsorbing them. We will x-ray in 2 weeks to see if there are skeletons so send some positive thoughts our way.

Today we had a successful AI between Cane and Prika so we will most likely have a litter of beautiful pale cream to fox yellows in mid October for Christmas time new homes.

We will be sending out more information via email next week to all applications on file.

08/01/2024

Meanwhile, Ari is not overly thrilled with her new shoes.

08/01/2024

We never officially saw a tie between Canada and Cane but they spent a week together so we are hopeful. Crossing our fingers for her ultrasound next week!
And Prika (our fox red) just started her heat so we have to decide on her too!