#1 AKC Ch Lab Breeder
84 AKC chs since 1993
63 chs since 2012
6 chs in 2022!
3 new chs for 2023
3 new ch's for 2024
18/06/2025
Great things come in bunches! Chambrays Life Is Good Today at Bonita Creek, lovingly nicknamed 'Zac' by his owner and breeder, Jill Van Houten, won Winners Dog and Best of Winners at the recent Tampa Dog Shows. Shortly after, his littermate sister was awarded Winners Bitch at the same show. Now, several days later, we've received Zac's OFA results: OFA Hips Good and OFA Elbows Normal. Congratulations to co-breeder/co-owner, Jill Van Houten/Bonita Creek Labradors, for having AKC Major-Pointed dogs from her very first litter as a breeder. Check out Zac's webpage at https://www.chambraylabs.com/zac
08/06/2025
08/06/2025
Just heard from Jessi, now on her way home from the Louisiana Dog Shows! As her dad, it's always great to know that she got there okay, put in 4 days of backbreaking work, did very well winning Winners Dog awards, Winners B*tch awards. Selects & a BEST OF BREED with the specials she is handling............also so satisfying to know that our kennel, Chambray Labradors, continues to move forward with her at the helm, with new dogs that I haven't even seen showing, with my 3 years of absence from dog shows. One of our young whippersnappers, 6-month-old Chambrays SoFlo Wingman, 'Goose', takes his first Winners Dog AKC champion's points from the 6 to 9 Puppy Class, and Chambrays SoFlo Faster Than A Speeding Bullet, 'Kal-El', takes Best Labrador Puppy, Sporting Group ONE, and BEST IN SHOW PUPPY. Way to go, Baby Girl, you make your dad super proud.
08/06/2025
Official Win Photo
“KAL(-EL)”
Chambrays Soflo Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
competed in the 4-6 BPup competition in Lake Charles, Louisiana with the amazing junior handler Zayla and wins not only Best of Breed Labrador, a Sporting group one but Best Puppy in Show !
We are very excited for this puppy.
Sire: Int’l Ch Am Ch Chambrays Breaking the Barrier with Kychel
Dam: Chambrays Sophisticated Lady at Soflo
Bred by Jessica Herzon and Amy & Dave Coursen
01/06/2025
Mezcal had an amazing evaluation at 7.5 weeks of age, to the point we held on to him as one of the top picks of his litter. The goal was to find him a show home. Along with his evaluation, he also rated very high in service potential. The more we worked with him on puppy manners and his training the more it was apparent how well this puppy would succeed in a service home.
We had a family contact us, interested in a puppy with service potential for their 8 year old son, who has autism. As much as I would have loved Mezcal in a show home, I just could not deny his true potential. I notified the family that I believed I had the perfect puppy for them.
They came and met with Mezcal yesterday and it was just a match made in heaven. Mezcal ran happily to the young boy and when the young boy stood and waved his hands up in the air, Mezcal stopped, analyzed the situation and then calmly walked over to the adults and introduced himself. Mezcal watch the boy patiently and as the young boy got more and more comfortable, Mezcal would approach.
He analyzed the boys body language and knew when to engage gently and when to stop and just stand there with the young boy.
It was amazing to see this 13 week old puppy demonstrate exactly what I knew he was capable of. As a breeder, I stood there proud and smiling. This is one of the reasons we do what we do. Not every dog has the potential to be a true service dog, so as a breeder when you find one, even if it goes against the originally intentions for your kennel, you have to put your puppies first and guide them to reach their full and true potential.
Here is Mezcal, now Apollo, after his bath waiting to go home with his new best friend! We expect so much from the newly formed duo!
21/04/2025
Sweet girl , Coco ❤️
04/04/2025
What a great debut for
“Goose”
Chambrays Soflo Wingman
Not only winning a tough sporting group but Best In Show 4-6 month puppy at the Elkton Dog Show just at 4 months!
We are so excited for this boys future !
Sire: Int Ch Chambrays Top Gun Maverick
Dam: Ashland’s Hazel’s Going Somewhere at Soflo
Thank you to Samantha Drennan Grubbs for piloting Goose!
26/03/2025
The Tasha x Burrito Sweet Treats!
20/03/2025
Churro 💙- 3 weeks old
10/03/2025
“Goose” - so excited for this puppy’s future!
05/03/2025
Introducing Chambray Labrador's most titled dog ever, UGRCH URBPIS UWP URO1 AKC MJR PTD Chambrays Ticket To Anywhere RN DS AJ AS HDJ TKA FDC FTN CGCA BCAT RATN VHMP...."Otto"...Congratulations to his owner JoAnne Wirtz for taking Otto where no man/woman has gone before with their Chambray dog! Wow, amazing and on top of all those abbreviated titles, he is an exceptional, true-blue breed type and phenomenal breed temperament and personality...................the ultimate do it all Labrador.............Beauty, Brains & Best All Around! PS: I am not up to date on what all the titles mean, so if JoAnne is up to the task, please comment on this post and let us all know what all the abbreviated titles mean. Breeders: Chambray Labradors and Cineáltas Labradors
Sire: Gold GRCh Chambrays Tank'd On The Boulevard MJAMS MJAMSS
Dam: AKC ChMajPted/Int Ch Chambrays Bella Mare A Star Is Born At Iconic CGC CGCA
Owner: JoAnne Wirtz
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Where do you start the story about a half-century odyssey with dogs?
Let’s commence with my Labrador love affair that started in 1970 and since then, every single year that has fleeted by, I have been blessed to have this wonderful breed of dog in my life.
Forty-seven years ago in 1973, I moved out to Chambray Acres and this became my homestead with my Labradors. Today, you see ‘us’, as a family, with two generations of Herzons totally involved with Labradors and other breeds as well.
This ‘total involvement’ is headlined by the Chambray Canine Community that covers all of our activities, enterprises, and business-ventures with all aspects of animal husbandry, total dog care, training, conditioning, and dog showing at the highest level in all breeds, while still specializing in Labrador Retrievers.
Our proudest claim from the many that we have achieved, is our ‘pay it forward’ movement to the breed with our extensive mentorship programs that benefit the dog-owning community, both locally in South Florida and nationwide/worldwide to all of our Labrador owners throughout the country and beyond to other countries as well.
Our #1 Labrador Retriever breeder status with more AKC champions since 2012 (49), more than any other Labrador breeder in the country.................plus our #1 Top AKC Grand Champions with the most at 29 GrChs,....................our #1 AKC Lifetime Top 100 Grand Champions w/6 in the Top 100 Ranking...............the most Silver Grand Champions in the AKC Grand Champions listing with 6 puts, Chambray Labradors as the undisputed leader of Top Champion Labrador Breeder & Grand Champion Breeder.
Also, from 2012 to 2019, we have produced the most AKC Labrador Champions per year, achieving Top Breeder of the Year Five different years with home-bred champions......... Labrador Retriever Breeder of the Year for 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2019.
We are the only Labrador breeder that offers full mentorship in breeding/raising, training/conditioning and we top it all of with the winningest Labrador Retriever handling at the highest professional levels in the country.
Through, Chambray Dog Training & Conditioning, we offer our proprietary training and conditioning techniques, methods and programs, to all breeds of dogs and then we follow that with our Professional Dog Show Management Program with handling in the ring.
There’s more, lots more, but seeing and experiencing is believing, so I will leave it here for now and wait for those that want to know more, to actually contact us and come and visit us first hand.
