WOULD YOU BE AN AMAZING GUARDIAN OF OUR FREE LABRADOR PUPPY?
Help with our Service Dog Donation Program
We have two Labrador puppies from an upcoming litter available to participate in our Guardian Program. Please Apply for more Information.
In the interest of providing the best care for our females we have developed a program which allows you to adopt a puppy. This is free of charge. It is also in support of our free service dog program for Veterans. We have developed a guardian program for a chocolate Labrador puppy while you give back to these amazing people. People who sacrificed themselves and served our country.
Puppies go home at 8 weeks old and live with their forever family. You train them and they live with you for their life. When they are of proper breeding age and come into heat they are returned to us in order to breed. At the end of mating you pick them up and they live back with you. You return them to us to birth and raise their puppies. Once puppies are weaned the female is picked up by their Guardian family.
We feel this will allow for the best care of the girls. They will be one on one with their forever families right from the get go. A Free puppy adopted through our breeder program is just that, a free lab retriever. In addition, there is compensation for travel to us to return her along with us paying for spaying after she has had her litters.
What about a Labrador Puppy in local Shelters?
On occasion we run into someone objecting to this program. They recommend that people visit their local shelter to adopt a Labrador puppy for free. We are all for, let me qualify, we are 100% for those who would rather adopt a puppy from a local London shelter. A Windsor shelter, or even closer to us in Chatham Kent are also options. These puppies need rehoming and we would want to get them into a home as much as the next person. The need for breeding however is still present because not all free shelter dogs have the intelligence to act as a service dog. As well, they don’t have a trackable background of their temperament and health.
Something as simple as a shelter dog not being screened for a genetic heart or eye issue may result in a lot of wasted training. Also, guessing a shelter dog’s age could result in a shortened term for them to act as service dogs. If a Labrador puppy lives for 10 to 12 years, and the shelter dog is 5 years old, this is too old to begin training. Training takes a year at least for suitable candidates. The service can only work until about 8 to 10 years old until they begin to slow down. So in this case all that training is put in to the dog for just a couple years. Normally this is a cost most people will not incur for such a short time. Read more on this here.
Who can participate?
You must live within an hour and a half or so or be willing to make the drive to participate in this program. People from Essex county and Windsor, Chatham Kent, Sarnia, London and Elgin county are the best candidates to partner with us and adopt a puppy for free. But living in one of those locations is not mandatory. If you are interested in our free puppy adoption program please specify so when applying as outlined on our contact us page. We will interview you for more information. Space in this program is very limited but also very rewarding. You help us place a Lab puppy into the hands of a veteran or first responder to help them with their daily duties.
How does a Labrador Puppy Guardian work?
Ownership is retained by Lucky Labs until the dog is finished breeding even though she will live with her guardian family. Around the age of three-four the mother is retired from breeding and we will transfer the ownership transferred along with paying an agreed upon amount for the dog to be spayed.
- We make the first pick of a litter choosing the smartest female to mate in the future. Sometimes there may be two puppies that are equally intelligent, if so you can pick from the two. Either way you get the pick of the litter.
- You take your Labrador puppy home, administer veterinarian care as you would normally getting your Lab vaccinations at the proper times.
- You keep us informed of vaccinations and if your female comes into heat. Once she is old enough to breed we facilitate that. She is home with you for most of the year only being away to mate with our male for a few days, and to have her puppies.
- After the first mating we will evaluate the quality of the puppies she made. If they do not meet or are not above our standards to be trained as a service dog we spay her and sign her over to you. We may also try her with a different male if we feel the characteristics of the different male might make the puppies of a higher quality. In short, if her puppies are exceptional she may have two litters so we are able to donate the highest quality puppies available to our veterans and first responders. If her puppies are not we may instruct you to spay her and cover the cost.
How to Help with our Labrador Puppy Program
If you feel you can provide an excellent home for one of our best girl puppies, and you would like to contribute to our veterans, police officers, nurses, fire fighters and medics while caring for one of the best breeds of dogs going, then please apply below. People looking for a puppy to adopt can get the highest quality Lab puppy available in Ontario. We appreciate your help and dedication to helping out.
