At RSJ Labradors, we are focused on treating you as we would want to be treated when we are adding a new little fur ball to our own lives. God gave us a gift in loving Labradors and matching them to great pet parents. It is something that we thoroughly enjoy and give praise to God for having this ability to bring happiness to others! We take raising puppies as a serious, yet fun business. We only breed with the highest pedigree and best temperaments to produce sound, quality pups. Our breeding dogs are free from hip and elbow dysplasia, calm, loving, non-destructive and well behaved. We are working to better protect the breed by completing over 200 different genetic health tests through Embark. Each of our breeding dogs has a link to view that testing. We have been breeding labs for 16 years, but we have been part of the Labrador world for 30 years. Shannon worked with the Dallas-Ft. Worth Labrador Retriever Club and Rescue in the 90's and trained a big beautiful black Lab named Shadow who took Best of Show as a 9 month old puppy in his first showing. Our dogs and puppies receive LOTS of loving attention, top notch care and are family raised, with a LOT of love. Many of our pups have gone into service, therapy, and hunting work, not to mention loving companion homes. We have 9+ acres of romping room for our dogs and puppies to enjoy their life and we have temperature controlled kennels. Even though we have nice facilities, we also rotate the dogs as to who sleeps in the house with us, and who is in the kennels for the night. We have received excellent marks on our yearly AKC inspections. Our contracts have a return clause; if for ANY reason you cannot care for your puppy for the duration of its life, it comes back to us for retraining and possible rehoming. We NEVER want one of the puppies, that we put a lot of love into, ending up in a shelter. In our contracts, we also give you specific health guarantees. We are no longer guaranteeing hips, elbows or shoulders due to too many enviromental issues that are beyond our control, such as: running and sliding on slippery floors, jumping off household items, early spay/neuter, completing agility like trainings before age appropriate and other things. All I can state is our breeding dogs come from parents or grandparents with OFA certifications of good or excellent hips, and normal elbows.