Welcome to Calizona Labs Kennel est. Since 2002. We've proudly been breeding Labradors for 23 years. This is not a business to us, it is a way to extend our love of the breed & bless others families as ours has been by these affectionate, smart dogs.
The Labrador is even tempered, easily trained and well behaved around young children and the edlerly. They also love other dogs & cats. Labradors are athletic and playful, and one of the most popular breed of dog. Labradors are frequently trained to assit the blind and for autistic children & adults. One of our labs was requested to be apart of Search & Rescue due to his being highly intelligent & calm in nature. Labs are water dogs, they love to swim. They are great hunting dogs, are great travelers & loyal to a fault, making them the best companions for all ages & lifestyles.
There are two types of Labrador Retrievers. The "English" style lab tends to be shorter and stockier with fuller faces and blocky heads. The "American" style labs are taller with slightly less broad faces and longer noses. At Calizona Labs we breed both & all three colors: chocolate, yellow & black.
Our four legged kids are raised in a family setting, surrounded by lots of love & attention. They are lucky enough to have a house full of kids to be loved by & that help us socialize them, as well as, other lab friends & a kitty cat to play with. We have a 56 acre farm that they freely roam on & enjoy here in Arizona & we also have a home in Southern California (hence the name Calizona).
Pictured above is one of our beautiful Mommy, June "Bug" Carter (English) & our very handsome Daddy, Charlie "Brown" (English/American). They are both AKC registered purebred Labradors. Their linage is impressive & OFA certified healthy hips, eyes & elbows. Please read our "Pedigree & Lineage" page for information regarding their multi generational award winning, healthy lines. It is important that you purchase your dog from a reputable breeder that can prove their claims on the lines of their dogs. This is a dog you're going to have in your family & commit to for the next 15+ years so don't take this lightly. We don't breed for a specific color we breed for health, calmness & a sound dog you'll enjoy loving for its lifetime.
Please visit our "Past Litters" page to see some of their beautiful babies & other liters we've had, along with testimonials from our awesome dog families.
Please visit our Q & A page for any questions you may have & email us at calizonalabs@gmail.com
The gallery below is of our AZ Labs home so you have an idea of the open spaces they live in & enjoy. Our entire property is fenced so you will not find any dogs confined here, they have free range to run, play, explore & be happy healthy doggies. T
We Moved & Now Our Babies Have 56 Acres To Roam Freely!
What Our Families Are Saying
When asked what the love most about Calizona Labs process, here's what some of our families said;
"Your way of communicating with us from pregnancy all the way through delivery day, and even after. How you are ALWAYS available to us, no matter how old they are, it's awesome! We actually followed you for a whole year before we got Mia😁" ~Glenda
"Great communication & complete transparency. Mango was worth the wait 💕" ~Amber
"Love the photos throughout the pregnancy and after. It helped us feel like we knew our pups before we actually met them. Also you are always available for questions! ❤️💙" ~Kristen
"All of it! I trusted you through the whole process. Never doubted we weren’t getting what we wanted. Sweet healthy pups 😊" ~Kimmi
"All the photos you took from the time Jack was born until he came home to us…the fact that I can still reach out to you with any doggie questions 4+ years later…so many things. A wonderful experience!🦮" ~Sheryl
"Attention to detail and the loving care you demonstrated during Cooper’s time with you. June and Charlie have great genes which passed on to Cooper, but I don’t think he’d be the great boy he is now without you!" ~Mike
OUR NURSERY
The nursery is its own building. These puppies are not in a garage or laundry room, they have two windows that flood them with sunshine & a cool breeze on warmer spring days. The nursery has heat & AC, it has it's own bathroom where I wash their precious paws & sweet dirty faces after eating. Their nursery building space is approximately 400 sq. ft., which allows us to put up 3 large whelping areas, 8x8, that have a tiled barrier between for easy cleaning, that can be removed to give them more space after they are weaned, or allows me to transfer them to one side while I'll clean the other, & also serves as a refuge for our Mommy's. It is low enough for Mommy's to jump over any time they want a break from babies but is too high for babies to escape. They have an indoor "dog park" where they can play while we clean or introduce them to the many training programs we do from 3 days old on. I have a large 10' L shaped work space that houses this cute nursery box, standing height for me so I don't break my back when examining them, weighing & washing them up, or changing their colors. We have a security system that protects them with a code being the only way to enter their nursery from the outside, & cameras outside & inside on at all times to monitor them when we aren't in the nursery. This system allows us to not only see all that's going on inside each nursery space but also hear them & we can even talk to them through it. We have a wireless speaker that we play classical & jazz music on for them, used to create a calm, peaceful, emotionally healthy environment.
We clean their spaces with all natural products, nothing toxic ever touches these babies.
It's truly a beautiful, serene place for them to start their sweet lil lives.
