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 Velkommen til Wildelabbens labradors

Vi bor i Bergsfjord, helt Nord i landet, på Vest kysten av Finnmark, hvor vi og hundene trives godt. Vi bo rett ved sjøen og det inneholder mye svømming og jakt på vannfugler, noe Labradorer elsker å gjøre... så vi bo i paradiset!
I 2008 flyttet vi fra Nederland til Norge, nettopp for den frihet og naturen. Vi driver en Båtslipp og Mekanisk Verksted og siden jeg er 'egen sjef' og bo rett ved siden av bedriften, har jeg god tid til hundene (de er til og med med på jobb!).

Vi driver en liten oppdrett av Labrador Retrievere av det klassiske type, ikke for tungt men heller ikke for lett. Viktig for oss er å beholde labradorens jaktlige egenskaper som en apporterende vannhund, og vi legger like mye vekt på det som på utseende (eksteriør) gemytt og helse.

For øyeblikket har vi 4 hundene i familien vårt; 4 Labradorer og 1 Jack Russell Terrier, Diesel. 
Alle Labradoren (tisper Birdy, Shelby og Lilly) er med på utstillinger og jakt- og blodsporprøver rund omkring i (ut)landet, og elsker selvsagt å være med på tur, trene og å få masse kos! 

Vår hundene lever selvsagt i lag med oss i huset og valper blir født/ vokser opp i stua hvor vi koser mye med dem. Mer informasjon om valper finnes i meny -puppies- overst på side. 
 Vi er veldig nøye med hvem som får kjøpt valp fra oss og krever at potensjele valpekjøpere kommer en gang og hilser på før vi bestemmer oss. 
Før dere tenker på en valp er det lurt å stille degselv følgende spørsmål: Hva vil dere ha? Hva kan dere tilby? Hvorfor Labrador, vet dere hva dere kan få? En Labrador unghund, kan være ganske mye hund og det er bedre å være forberedt på det, enn å få seg en smekk. Individene er selvsagt ulike, men generelt er Labrador en veldig aktivt hund og trenger mye mosjon og aktivitet. Det er tross alt en jakthund. Vi foretrekker valpekjøpere som ønsker å bruke hunden sin aktivt, og helst på jakt(prøver). 

Gjerne ser litt rund og ta kontakt hvis det er noe uklart, alltid hyggelig med en hundeprat!

Hilsen,
Patricia og Cornelis de Wilde



Welcome to our website, all about our live and activities with our dogs her at Wildelabben!

I always had a passion for animals; we had cats, chickens and rabbits when I grew up, I started horsebackriding when I was 6 years old and got my own horse when I was 12. Always busy at the stables in my free time, and always had dogs surrounding me. Due to circumstances I didn't had the opportunity to have my own dog until Cody came along, in 2005. I went to dog training and retrievertraining with him, but because he doesn't have a pedigree I couldn't enter shows with him.

In 2008 we moved from the Netherlands to Norway, were we finally had the time and space to have more dogs. We looked for a black dog and came in contact with Anne-Margrete ‘Molle’ Krohg from Rastigaissas Kennel (who later became a very dear friend and mentor) and we were lucky enough to get a puppy from her, and so my live changed when we got ‘Rastigaissas Heilo ‘Finnley’ in 2011!  

We started entering dogshows with him and we were hooked! I also started training him for retrievertests and bloodtrack (very good exercise to learn them to use their nose, and great fun to do).  He has really opened up my world, we travel to places we otherwise never would have seen and we meet the most fantastic people who all have the same interest; Labradors! We have a happy family and the dogs are a big part of it. They live with us, work with us and travel with us. We try to keep live interesting for them and ourselves with new challenges and experiences. 

I started to learn more and more about my beloved breed, reading articles and magazines, study everything that is to be found on internet and talk to experienced breeders! The most inspiring book I read is of Mary Roslin Williams, a very famous breeder of the Mansergh Labradors in the 60’s and 70’s. She both worked and showed her dogs and one sentence keeps going round in my head for ever: ‘The Goodlookers must work, and the workers must look like Labradors!’

The more I learned, the more I was convinced that a true (Classic) Labrador must be able to win at shows and do what it was intend to do; Gundogwork! Retrieve birds/rabbits and have the proper construction, health and mentality to do so.





Unfortunatly these qualities become rare in a Labrador, most are being bred for Show OR Work, hardly both. My aim to start my own Dual Purpose kennel was born and in 2013 we applied for the kennelprefix ‘Wildelabben’ (de Wilde is our last name of which we are very proud, and ‘labben’ stands for Labrador but also means ‘paws’ in Norwegian) and purchased our first bitch ‘Tintagel Winds Shork’N’Sweet ‘Birdy’ from Kira at the famous Tintagel Winds kennel in the UK (since 2014 breeding under a new kennelname: Shork Labradors), a very special girl with a Fieldtrial Champion father and a Showbred mother! We have high hopes for the future with this great tempered bitch. I am very lucky to have great mentors and friends who have the same aim as me; breeding true Labradors! 

Our first litter is born on 16th of april 2014 75% showlines and 25% workinglines.

Our goal is to breed healthy, happy, true Labradors that can both work and show, a Dual Purpose Labrador! 

WORK WITH PASSION AND SHOW WITH PRIDE

Although I refer to us as a kennel, all our dogs live in our house with us and are a big part of our family!

We breed according to the NKK (Norsk Kennelklub) and NRK (Norsk Retrieverklubb) guidelines for breeding (retningslinjer for avl og oppdrett). 

All our dogs have been X-rayed for Hips- and Elbow dysplasia and DNA tested for prcd-PRA, EIC, CNM, HNPK and SP2 (and some more, see under the name of the dog) and have clear eye certificates.


We keep you updated under NEWS!    

All the best, 
Patricia and Cor de Wilde and the Wildelabben Team 
PS The reason that our homepage is also in English is because we were born in the Netherlands, and have many friends there and in the rest of the world, and it is nice for them to be able to read all. We speak Dutch, Norwegian (a little bit of Swedish and Danish) and English and Cornelis also German and Luxembourgs,  just so you know!
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