Rainmaker Labs

We train and run our dogs in AKC Hunting Tests and Field Trials. We have produced FC AFC, QAA and ma Rainmaker Labs started with our first purebred Lab in 1998.
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We got introduced, then addicted, to AKC Hunting Tests and Field Trials and continue to grow and develop our dogs. We produce the type of Labrador that we enjoy, a companion in the home, working ability for the field, with brains, drive, trainability and looks. We are the proud breeder of:
FC AFC Sagon Blackhawk Shot in the Dark
Rainmaker's Bella Luna, MH/QAA
Rainmaker's Mystic Mila, MH/QAA
Rainma

ker's Foxy Beauty, QAA
HRCH Rainmaker's Fetchemup Allie, MH
Rainmaker's Redhead, MH
The Blast's Winning Streak, MH
The Blast's Red Path, MH
Rainmaker's Lambeau Storm, MH
Rainmaker's Wild River, MH
Home of:
Rainmaker's Southern Gamble, MH/QA2
Rainmaker's Working Class Payday, QAA
Port Bay's TNT Dynamite, MH/QA2
Rainmaker's Bella Luna, MH/QAA
Rainmaker's Redhead, MH
Rainmaker's Early Bird Special, SH
Rainmaker's Rough Ride, SH
Rainmaker's Sunny Tahoe, MH
Rainmaker's Lean Streak, SH
Cosmo's Ebony Bella Star, MH
And many, many more JH, SH and all around birdhunting fools. Licensed and inspected by the State of WI. License No. 267973-DS

08/06/2024

Good Morning! One of these 7 little fox red Lab girls is available for her new home, ready to go starting August 25th. No, I won't know which one she will be until August 25th when the first 6 have been placed with their new families.

Raised in home with lots of stimulation and exposure to new things. First set of vaccinations, microchip and vet check at 6 weeks. Both parents OFA hips/elbows/eyes and genetic testing. HR Rueben MH x Rouge, JH (Wager, MH/QA2 x Mila MH daughter). The litter page as well as a page for Rueben and Rouge with all their clearances, pedigrees and photos are on my website. www.rainmakerlabs.com. Please contact me directly with questions as I will not answer them in comments. Kim, [email protected], call/text 715-558-3261 or message here. Thanks.

https://youtu.be/hcyp_rLF9Ao

07/29/2024

Rudy has a home. Thanks all. He's a sweet gorgeous puppy and will be loved.

07/22/2024

Poppy's brother Grayson, the gray collar boy, is also looking for his new home. Bigger boy and going to be a nice, darker fox red in shade. Goofy outgoing personality . 2nd vaccines given. Microchipped. Vet checked. AKC registration. 30 day free trial of pet insurance via Trupanion. Raised in home and very social. Contact me privately for details. 715 558 3261 or private message.

https://www.huntinglabpedigree.com/puppy.asp?id=58129
https://youtube.com/shorts/R_qWN1Sicyc?si=rqa6xWQqtHH5ye3J

07/21/2024

***Poppy has a new home. Thanks for all the calls and shares ***
Ms. Poppy got stood up. After I agreed to hold her an extra 10 days while they took a vacation, then waited all day Friday for her scheduled pickup, with no response to messages, I was finally informed via message Friday night that a puppy just wasn't right for them at this time.

So. This darling, outgoing red girl is 9 weeks old today and looking for a responsible, active home who will appreciate her great temperament, good breeding as well as deposit already paid. ;-).

Contact me privately please. [email protected], 715-558-3261.

07/15/2024

Only 2 left, blue and gray collar boys. Ready this weekend

8 weeks old and alike as 3 peas in a pod. These boys are going to be just about as dark of fox red as their daddy Rueben, MH. They have his nice bone (look at those feet!) and structure along with great outgoing temperaments. They are great hunting and family companion prospects or if hunt tests or shed hunting are your game, they'll be great fit for that too. First vaccines, microchipped, AKC registration, vet-checked. Left to right are Gray, Blue and Black collars. Contact me directly via PM or call/text 715-558-3261. Both parents OFA hips/elbows/eyes and genetically tested.

07/14/2024

Gander and I ran his first hunt test today, a double JH at Blackhawk Retriever Club. He did well both tests. As always, the grounds there are beyond amazing and the Club puts on a well run weekend.

07/08/2024

The 4 red boys currently available and ready to go home this week/weekend. Blue, Green, Black and Gray collars. All are doing to be darker red in shade as they develop their adult coats. Not a shy one in the bunch, outgoing and friendly, exposed to all kinds of daily stimulation and activities. Raised in my home, both sire and dam on site. OFA hips/elbows/eyes, genetic screening. AKC registration, vet certificate, first shots and microchipped. We don't often have this many puppies available, just a happenstance of timing and people's schedules needing to change. They are having a grand time playing and exploring and would be great additions active family companion/hun-ters. Contact me directly for $$ details. [email protected], 715-558-3261, located in NW WI.

https://huntinglabpedigree.com/puppy.asp?id=58129

07/05/2024

Rouge delivered her puppies Tues night, my dogs do a fine job making sure I rarely waste time sleeping. She had 7 girls. Yep.
All girls. So, there are going to be some pretty little red girls available later August.
https://www.huntinglabpedigree.com/pedigree.asp?id=131800

https://www.huntinglabpedigree.com/pedigree.asp?id=150205

07/02/2024

Zelda x Rueben crew 6 weeks and loving a nice sunny day playing. Couple of these nice boys looking for the right family to take them home in a few weeks. Yes, I am hiding behind a lilly clump because if they see or smell me they come running.

06/29/2024

Just turned 3, black female, chocolate factored, OFA hips/elbows and genetically clear of the usual "Lab" stuff, EIC, CNM, PRA, etc. Well bred and very high drive. I got Pinkie back in March when I thought my keeper Ransom girl from my own breeding was not going to pass OFA, but that turned out to be poor positioning on the films and when I had her redone in May, she came back good. Pinkie is not my type of dog physically. She is smaller, probably 45 lbs, and not the "look" I want to add in to my dogs though I wanted the pedigree very much. Her gorgeous sire FC AFC Percy is related to my super talented and beloved Handsome Ransom, Percy's dam being out of the same breeding that produced Ransom. Her dam, HRCH Loosey, is from the talented breeding of NAFC FC Tubb x the renowned Jaws. I have to take future breeding into consideration, what I want to produce and I make tough calls sometimes regardless of how nice a dog may be in most ways. Pinkie is very nice dog, has a solid basic foundation though she is rusty from not a lot of work the last year. I can tell just from what time we've had to train together that she wants to work ( I didn't pick her up until early May), has good skills as far as "tech water" being cheaty, ins and outs and is good at the line, quiet and calm. Not quite steady but won't take much to enforce that to a higher standard, along with getting her marking back up to par, she has the skills. I've worked her to some HT stuff like decoys and duck calls at the gun. She is clean inside and seems to be okay with my other dogs though she can posture a bit nothing appears aggressive. She loads and rides fine and is friendly and affectionate. No health issues to my knowledge.

I managed to get one video of her doing some marks (half thawed hen pheasants) in our field on a non rain day, there haven't been many of those this summer. https://youtu.be/_hyPb4ePzvU

She will not go to a strictly pet home, she is too good to just sit on a couch full time, she needs to have activity to use her brain and desire on a regular basis, she needs to hunt at bare minimum, not fair to her otherwise. She LOVES water. She is FF and CC, training was more or less done to FTP when she was younger and she does have an AKC Trick Dog title as well. Contact me directly for info, she is not a giveaway. [email protected], message me here or call/text 715-558-3261.

https://huntinglabpedigree.com/pedigree.asp?id=159757

06/23/2024

5 weeks old today and some of these red boys available for reservation to take home in a few more weeks. They are NICE puppies, very good looking, outgoing, and going to be RED. Both parents great in the house as well as the field and water, all genetically clear and OFA hips/elbows/eyes. Raised in my home, will have first shots, microchip, vet check at 6 weeks. Contact me privately for further info. Kim, [email protected] , PM here or call/text 715-558-threetwosixone.
First time in outdoor puppy play yard, they loved it.

06/16/2024

These beauties will be turning a darker shade of fox red as they get their adult coats and will be awesome as family companions, hunters or whatever activity you want to try with them. Both parents have excellent temperaments, all health clearances, live in the home and love to work in the field and water. Both are 65 - 70 lbs. A few spots available for reservation, these lookers go home in a month. Contact me privately for more info via PM, email [email protected] or call/text 715-558-threetwosixone.

06/09/2024

Zelda x Rueben pups, 3 weeks old today!
https://youtu.be/ant_-mTgu_Y

https://youtu.be/A8eFucBjvMY

06/08/2024

15 month old chocolate male available. Kevlar was purchased in Feb and has 3+ months professional training. He is genetically clear of EIC, CNM etc via sire and dam and PRA gene test clear. No OFA yet, I can have done if that's desired. He will be updated on vaccinations and heartworm test before leaving, he is due in July. Full AKC registration. He's about 65 to 70 lbs, lean muscle and well built. Nice head and good coat. He was raised indoors and is clean in crate and kennel. He is very high drive and i would consider him a dog that needs an experienced trainer to get him to the point of being able to run field events or be steady for waterfowl. He is a good marker. He is through basic FF and CC. He does not have everything I'd hoped for to continue here as part of my Labradors. That does not mean he has health or temperament issues or won't make a great hunter or field prospect, just that he isn't my type of dog and i had hoped he was further along in training as well. Contact me privately with questions please. 715 558 3261, email [email protected]. https://www.huntinglabpedigree.com/pedigree.asp?id=171362

Video just to show him in motion. https://youtube.com/shorts/GtIwJI79SrU?si=LM9fg-OHwH_IZuvQ

06/03/2024

Two weeks old! One female, couple males available for reservation, going home July 7th or after, contact me privately if interested in more info. [email protected], 715-558-threetwosixone.
www.rainmakerlabs.com
https://youtu.be/CiIVs73K2bY

05/27/2024

We got some deep red shades in the Zelda Rueben litter, a few males and female available. Home in July. Contact me directly for info.

05/24/2024

I took the 3 winter pups to training grounds yesterday. The Ransom girls were born in December while Bridget, a Rueben daughter from an outside breeding, arrived here in December. So they haven't actually been swimming or retrieving in real water yet. They had no issues other than once started, they did not want to stop. Harper, the black one, has been lackadaisical on retrieving on land while Ridley has been very consistent. Harper decided water is IT. Bridget is very large, in both body and enthusiasm, with not much control of either yet. She and her dad Rueben spent "water intro" time leaping high and diving under and playing hippo with each other. I got wetter than any of them and had a soggy drive home. No worries with water with winter pups when they are bred for it regardless. Their drive supercedes all.

05/20/2024

We have puppies again! Zelda had 9 over the weekend, with a little contribution from Rueben 9 weeks ago. ;-) We have a few spots available, especially for boys, so contact me privately for info. Will be going home starting July 7th or after. These will be the fox red shade of yellow like their parents, both of whom are on my website, www.rainmakerlabs.com.

https://huntinglabpedigree.com/puppy.asp?id=58129

05/12/2024

No, we haven't fallen off the face of the earth here at Rainmaker. We've been on break from litters, took a short vacation (first in 4 years), but mostly, it's spring finally and we are busy with yard and garden prep, shaking off the winter weight in the field with the dogs. But the nursery will be full again soon as we have some puppies due next week with Rueben and Zelda, as well as some coming hopefully in July with Rueben and Rouge. So Happy Mother's Day, Happy Spring and happy puppies on the way!!!

04/11/2024

This crew starts heading to their new homes this weekend, going to pretty quiet around here for a while!

03/09/2024

Only one of these red fellas available, ready April 13th. Rueben x Oakley. Info on my website.

03/06/2024

The Gracie Rueben puppies are all spoken for, thanks.

Boys are blue, green, orange, yellow, purple and no-collar. Girls are pink and white.

https://youtu.be/m7mDdbxtCsw

03/03/2024

Okay, it's only fair to tell a nice story about poor Mike. He spent a hard morning breaking in keeper puppy Elka. ;-) This afternoon while on my 2 mile walk, it started raining but nothing too heavy. My phone started ringing, which I ignored, but my stupid smartwatch that rarely works when I actually want to answer a call, answered for me. I could hear Mike yelling my name so i yelled back as my arm bounced up and down with Haley on lead, hoping he'd hear without me stopping to converse. He asked if I wanted to be picked up since it was raining. No, we're good, thank you for thinking of us. Then the rain got harder and thunder started booming and Haley and I kicked into high gear before I regretted declining his offer. Because odds are, the watch would not call him if I actually asked it to anyway.

03/03/2024

Oakley had a bumper crop of 11 a week ago and all are doing great! There are 4 females, 7 males, ONE male left available for deposit. They will start going home April 13th. They will be spoken for quickly, so please make sure you are ready to commit, along with spouse/family, before contacting me. Rueben is the sire, these are all fox red in shade, full OFA and genetic testing on both Oakley and Rueben, "all clear". Full details on my website at www.rainmakerlabs.com, contact me privately for reservation info, email [email protected], private message or call/text 715-558-threetwosixone.

02/29/2024

I may start a weekly segment titled "Stupid Things Mike Says" or, "My Husband has a Death Wish".

I've been low carbing it for a while but being the dutiful spouse, I continue to make him his potatoes/rice/pasta sides along with a main course modified for me. I admit to doing this with less than good grace because being the one in charge of what's for dinner and prepping it every day year after year after year (32 of them this month) is already annoying. So, he in his usual obliviousness walks by his plate of yet unheated potatoes, sticks a finger in and says to make sure his potatoes are "good and hot" and continues on with his cocktail to sit and sip while I continue to bang pots and pans in the kitchen and throw death glares that bounce off Mr. Oblivious.

Last night I was making a salad and cooking chicken breast to top it, he went on a rave about how much he loves it, I said it's a very simple meal, how about you learn to make it if you love it so much? He rolled his eyes. I said, with a wife's duty to bring up every promise ever made by one's husband, that when you retired you would learn to cook so I could go train dogs all day and come home to a meal. YOUR words. He sighed and said, well, when I am done with all of the yard work, then I'll learn to cook. I said, you're 74, you will never stop making more lawn, cutting down trees, cutting up trees, making big piles, burning big piles, etc etc etc until you can't walk and then your excuse will be that you can't walk anymore, how can you cook. He shrugged. Works for him.

Yesterday he finally got his current pet project burn pile burned, this morning at 6 a.m. he's questioning cutting down the old crabtree in front of the house to make more room for garden and do I think he should pull the stump too. I hadn't had enough coffee yet but was able to mutter something about I better not come home from running errands to find a decorative crabtree cut down and you pulling the stump along with the main electrical wire that is buried between that tree and the house and knocking out the power. "Well, it's just a suggestion!" He was actually surprised and a little hurt by my response.

We haven't even made it to the end of the week yet.

02/28/2024

A couple of black males available, ready to go home end of March/early April. Genetically clear parents. HR Rueben MH x Gracie, JH. Tri factored, carrying yellow and black color genes. Both parents great temperaments and live in the house, excellent in the field as well.

02/21/2024

We've reached the 2 week mark now and eyes are opening. A couple males available, Gracie x Rueben. Start going home last weekend in March. This and Oakleys litter will be the only spring puppies I will have.

02/20/2024

Enjoying a sunny 48 degrees. Rueben (red) and his pretty daughter Bridget (black), 5 months. Ransom girls Harper (black) and Ridley (chocolate), 10.5 weeks.

02/18/2024

All the puppies have new homes, thanks.

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W720 County Highway A
Stone Lake, WI
54876

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http://www.rainmakerlabs.com/

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The Red & Black Rainmaker Pack, June 2018

Ransom, MH/QAA, Dyna, MH/QAA, Temper, MH, Maggie, MH, Bounce, SH (3 MH passes), Red JH & Tesla. It occurred to me as I headed out this morning to road the dogs, Tim & Lauren Springer of Dynamic Retrievers had a hand in all but the last two of this crew.

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Rainmaker Labs started with our first purebred Lab in 1998. We got introduced, then addicted, to AKC Hunting Tests and Field Trials and continue to grow and develop our dogs. We produce the type of Labrador that we enjoy, a companion in the home, working ability for the field, with brains, drive, trainability and looks. We are the proud breeder of: FC AFC Sagon Blackhawk Shot in the Dark Rainmaker's Bella Luna, MH/QAA Rainmaker's Mystic Mila, MH/QAA Rainmaker's Foxy Beauty, QAA HRCH Rainmaker's Fetchemup Allie, MH Rainmaker's Redhead, MH The Blast's Winning Streak, MH The Blast's Red Path, MH Rainmaker's Lambeau Storm, MH Rainmaker's Wild River, MH Home of: Rainmaker's Southern Gamble, MH/QA2 Rainmaker's Working Class Payday, QAA Port Bay's TNT Dynamite, MH/QA2 Rainmaker's Bella Luna, MH/QAA Rainmaker's Redhead, MH Rainmaker's Early Bird Special, MH Rainmaker's Rough Ride, SH (3MH passes) Rainmaker's Sunny Tahoe, MH Rainmaker's Lean Streak, SH Cosmo's Ebony Bella Star, MH

And many, many more JH, SH and all around birdhunting fools. Licensed and inspected by the State of WI. License No. 267973-DS