Hi Josh, I dont know how far you are willing to travel but I live in Rice Lake WI, which is about 2 hours from the twin cities. Our dog just came into heat here this week and we are planning on breeding her with the same dog we breed her with two years ago. Our female is proffesionally trained by John Flink and is aimed towards waterfowl hunting, the male is trained also by flink more aimed towards upland game. We got many good comments from people about our last dogs for hunting as well as great family dogs. If you want more information on some of these give my dad a call at 715-205-4454 or 715-234-1620. He will give you more info that you would want to know. They are both yellow labs. Let me know if you need to know anything else. If not good luck and have fun with your new dog
I know of someone up in the Brainerd area, but they are only 75% full lab. I am in the process of getting the pictures posted. they are offering them for free, but the pups were just born. The father is pure lab, but mom is part Healer and part lab they think. They have 7 males and 2 females. shoot me a PM if you are interested.
check out http://www.rainmakerlabs.com/. My good friend and neighbor has a male red from them. He is a great looking pup. Big too. They have a great rep and sell yellows, reds, blacks, and chocolates. I have seen a number of their dogs (pups, starter dogs…ect) and I have always been impressed with the dogs AND the breeders. My next one will be from them!
My friend has 3 AKC lab pups for sale. They were born the first week of August and both parents are great hunters. I might buy the black male, but there is a black and chocolate female left too. Give Travus a call at 218-728-1323. He works in Duluth, but the puppies are in Ramsey. I’m not positive on price, but I would guess about $300.