Cashman Kennels - Minnesota Labrador Retriever Breeders

We have nine video's of three of our stud dogs upland hunting and land/water marks and blinds. Trooper is a 4 x Grand Master Pointing Lab. It shows him upland hunting, pointing and steady to flush. Please go to http://www.cashmankennels.com/gallery.html to view the videos.

With over 25 years experience, we have bred, trained and competed with some of the most recognized field trial, hunt test/hunting, and pointing lab lines in the country. By selectively breeding some of the best American and British bloodlines, Cashman Kennels' mission is to produce an amazing all-around gun dog with sound genetics. Our stud dogs have AKC SH & MH Titles, Grand Master Pointing Lab and International Show CH title. Our studs are OFA good or excellent, Normal elbows and CERF, DNA tested clear of PRA, EIC and CNM. There are always quality puppies available out of our studs listed on our website www.CashmanKennels.com

Labrador Retriever

Stud Services

Karen & Matt Cashman
23995 Edenvale Trail
Elko, Minnesota 55020

Breeding quality gun dogs for over 25 years.

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Tate is a compact black lab, at 33 months he is 64 pounds of block head and sheer muscle. A true stud, Tate is a pup out of Charlie; I bought him from Cashman's at 12 months as a starter dog.

Tate went 4 straight in the AKC hunt tests to achieve his junior title before he reached 18 months of age.

With 2 seasons behind him Tate has literally had hundreds of retrieves. Mainly waterfowl but also has hunted his fair share of pheasant. His “services” in waterfowl hunting have included a healthy mix of both field and water. He has had many incredible water retrieves, often covering large amounts of territory, while breaking ice and fighting river current. Tate has shown his skills in handling birds of all sizes, including even the largest of geese.

Tate has developed excellent marking, listening skills, eye contact, whistle and hand signals. Couple those traits with a supreme nose and the result is one heck of a hunting machine.

In addition to being a great partner in the field (and during fishing excursions) Tate more than meets the expectations for a good family dog.

My thanks go out to Cushman’s for matching me up with such an exceptional Labrador. Their support during the selection process was second to none, and the continued support that I have received has been more than appreciated.

If you are considering a pup from the Cashman's let me say I have been 100% satisfied with my experience. I am confident your experience will be the same.

Bob Miller
Nisswa, MN

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Karen,

Just thought I'd drop you a quick note to report that we have received deposits for all of our pups. They're 5 1/2 weeks old now.

Listing the litter on your website proved most helpful as doing so generated countless calls. Six of the buyers located our litter through your website.

We really can't say enough about how much we've appreciated your help through this entire process. There is no question in my mind where we will turn when we look to breed Bella again in a few years.

Jason & Charity Anderson

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Rogue and Cali are Charlie puppies which me and a friend of mine purchased from Denver's litter this year. They are around 8 months old now and both are really doing good. Rogue is an amazing pup! He is so calm when at home but turns the switch on in the field. I hunted a lot of Doves with him this year and could not believe how fast he learned. This weekend when we were hunting Pheasants (for the first time this year) I had several people in our hunting party come up to me and tell me they could not believe a pup at that age was working birds like that and retrieving to hand. Needless to say I was very very proud of him! I plan on hunting a lot of ducks and Geese this year with Rogue and I have no Doubt he will do great. We are extremely happy with the way Rogue is turning out and cant believe how easy and good of a puppy he was. He is a very smart dog with outstanding hunting ability. Oh and as a bonus Rogue and Cali are both very good looking dogs with very large blocky heads and long legs. I just thought I would give you an update on the pups and let you know how great they are doing and how happy we are with them.

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I bought Sky one of Charlies pups. She is an exceptional pup.
She has had extensive pheasent hunting already (60 days in Montana and 14
days in North Dakota)
Her marking and trailing ability is better than some of the more mature dogs
we were afield with this fall.
I have been fortunate enough to own some great dogs and so far I would say
for a pup of 9 months she will be another.

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I have a pup from trooper and shade tree kennels hannah and would like to tell you thanks for a great pup and soon to be shed hunting and duck hunting dog. So far hes 13 weeks old and more than I could have ever expected out of a dog. I waited 7 year to buy a lab and known about Raider for a long time before the time was right to buy a dog of my own. I found out that Trooper was breed with hannah who was only 9 hours from my home in Montana so I jumped on the opportunity at having a dog that came from cashman kennels.
Thanks alot for breeding such a quality dog and giving me a chance to own one.

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During the last five days Puck had gotten about 50 retrieves in South Dakota on a snowgoose hunt. About ten of those where 100 yards retrieves and another five where around 200 yard retrieves. He had a blast and really did his part of conservation getting 3 wounded geese we found still alive in open fields while scouting for the next day. Puck has grown to be more than I expected him to be at in less than 10 months old. As we still have lot's of growing and learning to do together as trainer and pet as he is really our joy watching him work. Thanks, again if needed please use us as a reference for anyone who wants to see an Amos pup.

I'm also giving you and update that Puck just passed 4 for 4 on his Junior tests in the last 3 weeks. He is way above and beyond everything we wanted in a pup.

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I just wanted to take a moment and give you an update on the pup I purchased from you last January...I picked a male pup from the Trooper litter you had last Jan (born on Thanksgiving). There were 7 males to pick between. I was torn on whether to pick the most docile one (I did pick him) and the most aggressive one (a fox red dog). He is going to be a real light weight dog too...maybe 65lbs when he is full grown...just what I wanted.

I named him Frank and he is definitely not a docile one like I thought he was going to be. He is a handful and knows how to get in trouble...however, his training is coming along well. I have him handling in the yard pretty well, completed the force training, collar conditioning and just moved to the double T activities. Progress is a little slower than I'd like due to my schedule.

I've had him on birds since I picked him up last winter. I had him to the game farm 4 times during the off season working with the guns and live pheasants and chuckars in high confidence situations. He showed much promise leading up to this season.

Since the season has started I've had him out for ducks and pheasants every weekend. We've shot no less than 50 pheasants (not to mention all the hens flushed) over him and about as many ducks / geese. Two weeks ago the light switch turned on and he has become one intense machine at tracking down the roosters. He put his nose on 18 wild roosters in SW MN two weekends ago and Myself and hunting partners shot all of them for him. Some of them required technical retrieves across the Redwood river where the birds fell. He has also caught two wild roosters and one hen. He really chases them down.

He works nose to the ground and sounds just like a pig rooting in the mud. It is great! However, with how light colored he is he has a tendency to look like a prize fighter after 12 rounds in the ring. His eyes and nose are bloodied...my wife doesn't like that too much...heck he doesn't care.

Thanks for the great dog! I look forward to him becoming the dog that saves the hunt for most of my hunting buddies.

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Bella is doing awesome- couldn't be happier with a 10 month old pup. She did great on trip to Sask last week in Sept at 9 months. Made some
great long retrieves both on water and land- 100-200 yard plus. She is small
so holding geese is a little bit of a issue but will only get better with
age and when she is force fetched.
Haven't had a chance to pheasant hunt much yet- one day at game farm-short
stint in hot weather and quick walk after a duck hunt- she did great here
also. I know she will do real well as she is very birdy and gets it
already.

I am excited to continue training and growing with her. I have been in
Montana hunting antelope- now its back to birds with her.

Let me know if some pics come thru- never take as many or as good of ones as
I would like.

Hope your fall is going well, Kurt

Kurt Woodrich
DNR Waters

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Karen,

Great news, all of my pups are sold!! Thank you so very much for your (and Amos') services. This whole experience has been outstanding.

I really do appreciate your help, as I hardly did anything to sell the pups, unlike the last litters that I had.

I hope you plan on keeping Amos for awhile, I would like to breed my female to him again, in 2 years, as at that point, there is no question that I will be keeping a pup. She will be 8 years old then, and I know that I can't breed her any later than that, and I want a pup out of my female.

Thanks Again!!
Mike Wendt

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