Crook Kennel has a brood stock of AKC Labrador Retrievers—Labrador studs and dams bred down from National Championship Labrador Retrievers. Our puppies are from the same stock of Labrador Retriever, and raised to be the best—whether they become pets, hunting dogs, hunt test partners, or Field Trial Competitors. Some are even used in the Marine Corps, saving the lives of our soldiers in the field by finding roadside bombs before they blow up and kill our sons and daughters serving our country.

The Crook family has been raising Labrador puppies since 1955, before I (Charles Crook, Jr.) was born in 1956. FC-AFC Tahoe Pat was my Grandfather's first pup. He was bred from Julia of Alaska, and finished the Amateur National in 1963 in Sheridan, Wyoming.

My grandfather (Wayne Crook) became a professional Labrador trainer in 1965. One day, my dad looked out the window and said to grandpa, “Dad, there must be twenty dogs out there that we are working for friends. I think we you should be getting paid to train them.” That’s when we decided to compete with other dog kennels, and Crook Kennels became a business.

From the first ten years in the dog kennels business, what seemed a lifetime to me, we bred and trained over twenty Field Trial Champions, several of them being Chesapeake Bay Retrievers, and the rest being Labrador Retrievers.

One of the standout females of the time was FC-AFC Luka of Casey's Rocket. I remember Grandpa, Dad, Jim Casey, and Luka's owner at the time Ray Doyle, sitting at the table. They put a question to the table: Who do we breed Luka with to produce a tough enough pup to handle the electric collar that is going to be the future of dog training? Grandpa said to them, “We should breed her to the National Champion, Whygin's Cork's Coot 1966, 1969. Not because he is the National Champ, not because his sire was the 1955 National Champion, Cork of Oakwood Lane, but because Cork is the toughest dog I have ever seen.”

With that breeding, FC-AFC Trumarc’s Raider was born—the #1 sire of all time. He sired the famous Labrador and National Champion of 1976, San Joaquin Honcho. Honcho then sired 1992 National Champion Candlewood’s Super Tanker. Super Tanker also won the 1990 National Amateur. Super Tanker is the sire of National Champion 1990, 1991 and 1993 Candlewood’s Tank’s Alot, whose granddaughter has won the National and Amateur National in recent years.

My stud dogs came from semen that was put back by Trumarc’s Raider's second owner Fred Benner in 1980 before the death of Raider in 1984. My Dad went to Texas to a Field Trial and he and Fred were talking about Raider's birth. Fred told my Dad about the semen he had put back, but had only used once for his own breeding, and that he would allow us access to the semen since we were the original breeder of Raider. Since then, Crook Kennels has specialized in the Labrador Retriever. We have the best stock of Labrador Retrievers around and produce some of the best Labrador puppies for sale anywhere. Other dog kennels just can’t compete with the quality of our stock. We have many kinds of Labrador, including the Black Labrador. So if you are looking for a Labrador retriever, a Black Labrador, or Labrador puppies for sale, give Crook Kennels a call today!