We live with our four Flat-Coated Retrievers in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. We brought our first Flat-Coat, Emma, home in the summer of 2004. Unfortunately little Emma had an undetected congenital heart defect and we lost her at 13 weeks of age. Thanks to her breeder we soon found another puppy, Katie. We quickly discovered as many other FCR owners do, that they are like potato chips - you can't have just one. Tara, our foundation bitch, joined our family on New Year's Eve 2004.  Then along came another Emma in spring of 2007; named after her Aunt Emma. In 2009 Tara had her second litter of 10 puppies.  Our puppy evaluator told us not to let the top male go to a pet home and to hold out for a show home. Jet is still here - I think he found his show home! Besides showing in conformation we are also involved in agility, obedience and field training. They keep us very busy! We are members of the Flat-Coated Retriever Society of America, the Western New York Retriever Club, the Finger Lakes Retriever Club and our local kennel club. All of our breeding dogs receive OFA and CERF clearances for hips, elbows, patellas, heart  and eyes.

On Thursday, March 29th Jet earned his CD in Syracuse, NY with a score of 1861/2! We'll now start training for his CDX.

The Superstition Litter have all gone to their new homes. We are not planning another litter until maybe January, 2013.