Startop Labradors

08/28/2024

We still have a chocolate male and female available to pet homes 💗

08/28/2024

08/26/2024

I have a smaller yellow female available for a new 🏠
13 months old.
She is very pretty just a little shorter than I need. Very light yellow color.
Not free or cheap.
Will come crate trained, leash trained, UTD on vaccines.
Parents fully health tested both AKC major pointed.
This girl is small, very light yellow and a very sweet, submissive personality.
Photos to come…
Private message only please 😁

08/13/2024

We have beautiful chocolate and black puppies available 🥰
Our friend & co owner Sue has these 2 chocolate males available in CT (they are all our lines) and we have black and chocolate here at home with some availability.
Please message me for more information!

08/06/2024

Startop and Crossbay Labradors welcome Phoenix (Austin daughter) and Legend babies ❤️
Parents fully health tested, puppies raised in our home
Chocolates and blacks available.

04/16/2024

ETA sorry we’re keeping him.

We have a 20 month old yellow male for a pet home. Not free, priced accordingly from very well bred, fully health tested champion parents. Please do not inquire if you are looking for free or cheap. I don’t have time for it.
Please pm if interested.

03/05/2024

The Broken Heart Dog

Most of us know what a heart dog is: that special dog that we connect with on a deeper level. The dog that we know and that knows us forwards and backwards. Our four legged other half and in some ways, one of the great loves of our lives. These dogs are talked about often, placed on a pedestal against which future dogs are judged and revered by their owners for the lifetime of the human lucky enough to have spent their time with them. Some people are lucky to find that one heart dog. Some are blessed enough to have two or even several in a lifetime. Some people will describe them differently. Referring to a heart dog, a soul dog, a spirit dog, etc. All are just as important as the first and all can change the life of the person fortunate enough to have found them. Praise and honor is given to these dogs on a daily basis and today will be no different for many, but today I want to take a few minutes to talk about a different type of heart dog. The broken heart dog.

These are the dogs that follow our heart dogs. Maybe they survive them in this life or maybe they find us after we have suffered that profound loss of that “once in a lifetime” dog. It doesn’t matter how they arrive in our lives or why, it just matters that they do. They are there. They are there at our worst and they stay at our sides until we find that new version of ourselves. They help us discover our new normal and they never ask to take over the place of the dog before them. When we are broken, they are the guardians of the pieces. When we are whole again they are elated to be there and experience that with us too. As we move on in the world and we no longer need them to plug the leaks and fill the cracks, they are honored to still be by our sides as we grow and face new challenges. These dogs are irreplaceable in their own right and equally deserving of recognition and celebration.

I’m sure you can think of who this dog (or dogs) are in your life. Some of them may have grown to become heart dogs in their own right. Others may have quietly done their job of support and regrowth, quietly and with dedication that allowed us to change and grow without seeming to realize it. It’s hard not to be reminded of your past, of your history and what you lost with the passing of time. Our history is what formed us and shaped us into who we are now, heart dogs and broken heart dogs included. Our history will repeat itself because such is the nature of the beast. I think what we need to remember, with these broken heart dogs, is that sometimes the most important history, is the history that we are making today. Because of these dogs we find ourselves ready to take those steps and make that history. Their accomplishment in that moment and in that victory is not to be overlooked. They remind us who we are and why we love the things that we did with those heart dogs.

So here’s to the dogs that clean up the messes that this life makes of us. The dogs that may not be the best looking, the most talented or the ones that catch everyone's eye. These dogs are the therapists, the mechanics and the keepers of the soul. Their value known only to the one person fortunate enough to have found them through chance or sheer desperation. Maybe they are great dogs, known to the masses and legends in their own right. Maybe they are a little tall, a little too shaggy, a little too leggy or they have a crooked ear. It doesn't matter. This is the perfect work that can be done by dogs both imperfect and otherwise. The mending of a broken heart that requires the love of a heart so pure that it can repair, rebuild and cleanse the scraps that it finds itself responsible for. I see you and the work you do. We all do. This is your day to shine for the beautiful work you do, even if you do your job in the shadows. Today is your day for the pedestal.

Written by Jen Rainey, CPhT

02/19/2024

We have one boy who has become available due to no fault of his own.
These are my Louder x Harmony babies and they are stunning and so so sweet.
It is no particular puppy (pics are 2 different boys), just a boy that had been held back for someone and that is not going to work out. They are 6 weeks now.
Pm if interested.

01/02/2024

We have 2 older black male puppies available. This is one of them, 8 months. He enjoys “helping” with horse stall cleaning ❤️😂

12/31/2023

Our beautiful Harmony is due in 11 days and I am SO excited about this litter!
I do have availability currently.
Pm me if interested 💗

12/12/2023

Update on our expected litters!
Unfortunately Fire (fox red) is not pregnant. We will try again next heat cycle in 6 months.
Harmony however, has approximately 10 via ultrasound!!
Harmony’s beautiful litter will be all chocolate 🤎
I am accepting a limited number of deposits.
www.startoplabradors.com
[email protected]

12/04/2023

We are planning for a dark yellow/fox red litter due in January!
Puppies would go home in March.
Mom is our beautiful “Fire”!
Dad is “Blippie”, a Radek son owned by our good friends at Atlas.
Reservations are being accepted now.

10/04/2023

One or both of these black boys will be available to an approved home.
4 months and 7 months.
Please email me if you’re interested.
Serious inquiries only. Pet home only.
[email protected]
Jen

09/16/2023

We have this beautiful black male puppy available, as well as a few other older puppies!
Inquire [email protected]

08/06/2023

I have 2 yellow puppies available. A male and a female.
Elliot and Eve babies are super sweet and easy not to mention pretty 💖
I can’t even believe I have any available at 8 weeks but here we are.

07/27/2023

Still a male available 💜

07/26/2023

HAPPY 12th BIRTHDAY to my very special, COWBOY 💓💓💓💓

07/18/2023

5 weeks old and these are SUCH nice babies!!!
Elliot x Eve
I do have a few boys available to approved homes 💗
Located in upstate NY.

06/26/2023

We have beautiful yellow Elliot puppies available ❤️💗💖

06/06/2023

5 weeks they are so cute!!
Legend babies 😘😘😘
There is availability for black puppies!!

05/21/2023

We have a couple of black puppies available from this litter

03/03/2023

We have blacks and chocolates available for reservation now, ready to go home mid/end of April! Perfect timing for spring 🌺
Email [email protected]
www.startoplabradors.com

02/23/2023

We have beautiful black males and chocolate females available now, ready to go in April.
Please email with interest
[email protected]

01/13/2023

We are expecting puppies in February!!
Will be ready to go home in April just in time for spring 🌸

10/13/2022

I’m currently having an issue with updating my web site but I wanted to say that we have several dogs available to pet families at this time.
There is a puppy, a few older puppies and some adults.
These are not free dogs. Prices will reflect age and training.
Please inquire via email if interested!
[email protected]

03/08/2022

Placed in her forever home

Due to no fault of her own, we have a black female available.

If you are interested please go to my website and fill out a questionnaire and I’d be happy to speak with you.

https://www.startoplabradors.com/welcome.htm

01/12/2022

We have black puppies!

11/20/2020

03/12/2020

Meet the wonderful Labrador Retriever!!!

https://www.facebook.com/144363939657989/posts/655732118521166/?d=n