The Creekside Kennel .. who are we?

The Creekside Kennel

The Creekside Kennel was established in 1994.The Creekside Kennel’s number one focus is to preserve and promote the Labrador Retriever Breed.

The Labrador Retriever  has been America’s number one breed for several years. This just didn’t come by luck, Labrador Retrievers are know for their loyalty, agility, retrieving skills and aquatics.

The Creekside Kennel Actively participates in AKC events and also hold Canine Good Citizen ( CGC) Evaluation Clinics. This Kennel also produces very nice English style Labradors also know as show type Labrador Retrievers. Currently The Creekside Kennel is home to Five Show Ring Champions and has several competing in the show ring.

The traditional coat colors of a Labrador Retriever are Black, Yellow and Chocolate. The breed standard for height is 22.5 to 24.5 inches in height from the dogs withers to the ground. The breed  standard weight is 65 to 80 pounds.

The Dilute Color Labrador Retrievers are Charcoal, Champagne and Silver. The Charcoal Labrador is a Black Labrador  that carries the ( MLPH) Gene. The Champagne Labrador is a Yellow Labrador  that carries the ( MLPH) Gene. The Silver Labrador is a Chocolate Labrador  that carries the ( MLPH) Gene.  There is much controversy over the dilute colors and the Labrador Retriever Club has dubbed them “Designer Dogs”. Things change and things evolve over time.

The origin of this MLPH Gene comes from the origination of the Labrador Retriever breed. The Newfoundland Dog and the Chesapeake Bay Retriever carry the MLPH gene and these breeds were the original founding stock in the Lineage of the Labrador Retriever.

 The Creekside Kennel is currently home to many Confirmation Champions and we regularly show our dogs to preserve the breed and produce quality champion lineage puppies. We pass these great traits that we have preserved down to the future generations of our lineage.

The Creekside Kennel is actively participating in charitable contributions. We donate puppies on occasion to great causes such as preserving our wetlands to Ducks Unlimited and the Delta Waterfowl Association.  We also support the fight to find a cure for cancer . We donate puppies in October to organizations for Breast Cancer Awareness and 10% Of our sales during the month of October are donated to local Cancer Institutes. We also Support Make A Wish Foundation!  At Creekside Kennel we are big advocates of dogs that help people. We donate dogs  to be used for Therapy Dogs and Service Dogs!

The Creekside Kennel Produces top quality Labrador puppies. All of our puppies come with a two year hip/health guarantee and microchipped. Our dogs and puppies compete in the show ring as well and the obedience trials. Our dogs are well versed and can even hit the water or the field!

For your Next Family pet or show ring Champion Visit Creekside Kennel in southeastern NC or visit us on the web atwww.creeksidekennelnc.com

Big things to come in 2014!

Hello!

 It has been a while I have been super busy getting all of our new things in order! 

Last June we went to Lake Michigan with one of our super bitches

CH Pheasant Hills Witchy Woman of Creekside.

This dog is super amazing! 

Great Personality!

This is one of her Last year puppies

Creeksides Inspector Gadget

This line in these dogs is one of my all time favorite lines! 

My next blog will be about Artificial Insemination and Progesterone Testing.

* Keep an eye out for up coming show news

* Upcoming Events

* New Litters

and

Much Much more!

www.creeksidekennelnc.com

CHARCOAL & SILVER PUPPIES ARE HERE!

AKC Charcoal and Light Silver ARE here 6/25/11.NOW TAKING DEPOSITS! Puppies will be UTD on all shots, microchipped and 2 yr hip/health guarantee. CH SILVER lineage. $1000.00 Military and Emergency Responder discounts!http://www.creeksidekennelnc.com

                                          Sire of the litter Creeksides Silver Dollar

                                        Dam of the litter Creeksides Charcoal Chick

The Silver Labrador Controversy

                                 The Controversy over Silver Labs
                                               Written by: Robert Young of the AKC 3-27-00


At the end of the Twentieth Century, the frequency of silver (gray) labs began to increase in North America due to an increase in the number of Chocolate Labs in the gene pool of Labrador Retrievers.  These Silver Labs in turn fueled an enormous controversy within the Lab community.    Fortunately, by the advent of the Twenty-First Century, the controversy surrounding Silver Labs subsided except for a few remaining breeders of “standard colors”.  These remaining opponents of Silver Labs are the K_9 version of the “Flat Earth Society”.  Unfortunately, those holdout breeders who refuse to acknowledge AKC’s acceptance of the silver labs, continue to confuse the general public by making unfounded accusations about the purity of the Silver Lab breeding.  In an attempt o quiet the ranting of the more vocal opponents of Silver Labs, one breeder of Silvers offered a $100,000 Silver Lab Challenge to any to these “experts” who wished to put their money where their mouth was concerning their accusations surrounding the ancestry of the silver labs.  And to the man, not one of those “experts” you see on the internet was willing to stand behind their Flat Earth accusations regarding Silver Labs. 

Are Silver Labs Pure Bred Labrador Retrievers?

DNA testing and mapping of silver labs was done during the close of the Twentieth Century and meticulous investigation of each silver labs ancestry was conducted by investigators from AKC.  All conclusions were the same i.e. “there was no reason to doubt the dogs were purebred Labrador Retrievers.”  (see conclusion issued by AKC).  Amazingly, the Flat Earth Opponents of Silver Labs counter these scientific conclusion with the incredibly insane accusation that the “cross-breeding” which allegedly produced the Silver Labs was either covered up by line breeding or happened to long ago to be detected by DNA testing.  If anyone ever needed on indication of just how ignorant opponents of Silver Labs are, this statement should be the key.  Every K-9 carries in its genes complete history of its ancestors going all the way back to wolves.  Everything written about the Silver Labs is based on speculation. One statement that is commonly made it that there had to have been a Weimeraner introduced into the bloodlines to produce the silver color.  This statement has been proven false.  UC Berkley studied the genetic makeup of the Silver Lab against that of a Weimeraner. Research concluded that it was not the same.
 


Why The AKC Registers Silver Labradors As Chocolates!!

 
“In 1987 we conducted an inquiry into the breeding of the litters that contained the dogs that were registered as silver and one of our representatives was sent to observe several of the dogs that had been registered as silver.  Color photographs of these were forwarded to the office of the American Kennel Club where the staff of AKC and the represenitative of the Labrador Retriever Club of America examined them.  Both parties were satisfied that there was no reason to doubt that the dogs were purebred Labrador Retrievers, however both parties felt that the dogs were incorrectly registered as silvers.  Since the breed standard describes chocolate as ranging in shade from Sedge to Chocolate, it was felt that the dogs could more accurately be described as chocolate than as silvers.



Conclusion
 Silver Labs are pure bred Labrador Retrievers and their ancestry is beyond reproach.  Fortunately, kennel clubs around the world do not have the political pressure from mercenary American breeders of “normal” colored labs and already accept silver labs without all the political fuss and pressure being applied to AKC (the original standard for a lab has always been “a coat of solid color”).  If a person should come upon one of the remaining “Silver Lab Hate Sites” on the net and develops ANY doubts about Silver Labs, that person should too directly to AKC and ask the pertinent questions to learn the facts.

 

 

Welcome to The Creekside Silver and Charcoal Labradors

                                  Hello Labrador Lovers! 

We are a small family owned kennel is southeastern North Carolina. We are Breeders/Exhibitors and we pride ourselves in raising quailty Champion Lineage Labradors.

We breed English style Labrador Retrievers. The coat colors we produce consist of Light Silver, Charcoal, Chocolate, Yellow, White, Red and Black. 

 
Our Labrador Retrievers are Champion Titled AKC events as well as Hunting events.