Wyndham and Wyndhamian Retrievers - North Dakota Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Flat Coated Retriever Breeders

The Wyndham-Wyndhamian retrievers have been Mr. Atkins avocation since he was 10 years old. After more than 55 years with the highest quality working retrievers the dogs have kept Mr Atkins a very active hunter of both upland and waterfowl. The purpose of the breeding program has always been to produce the best Chesapeake Bay and flat coated retrievers possible for the shooting needs of Mr Atkins and his friends. Every effort has been made to breed only from proven sound, trainable and reliable working stock of the highest quality. No effort to accomplish this is compromised and this highly organized and focused breeding effort has sought the best individual animals from anywhere in North America or Europe. While Mr Atkins has no interest in artificial hunt tests or field trials, dogs from this program have produced many of the best winners at these events for others. The Wyndham-Wyndhamian program is to our knowledge the only retriever breeding kennel to have animals it produced be parents of Field Trial Champions and All-Age Winners on both sides of the Atlantic. Regardless, the aim remains to produce stock that has a strong desire to find game, that has an inherent desire to please, work for the owners and that will be physically sound for work for 12 or more shooting seasons. Anyone wishing additional information about this kennels stock in either breed should contact Mr Atkins, who will be pleased to discuss or show off his current stock, explain breeding plans and how approved owners may reserve a pup with a nonrefundable deposit, or book a quality female to be bred to one of the Wyndham-Wyndhamian stud dogs.

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Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Flat Coated Retriever

Hunting, Training, Stud Services

Ed Atkins
Wyndhamian Farm, P. O. Box 73
Ashley, North Dakota 58413

Breeding quality gun dogs for over 57 years.

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Ed delivered Deets to us in April 2010. From the first day, he has been an outstanding dog. He is birdy, and doing very well with hand signals and retrieving. He is handsome and at almost 7 months a very athletic 60 pounds. His temperment is absolutely outstanding - very sweet, very trainable, smart, a little stubborn but after he tests us a few times, he obeys well. We have a 2 1/2 year old male flat coated retriever, and an 15 year old Jack Russell, and Deets socialized well with them. We are extremely happy with him and would recommend highly Ed's dogs!

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In early 2009 I acquired another chessie puppy from Ed . This female (Cypher)is from a Goldie and Clifford breeding.
She was acquired with the intention of training her to be a service dog for mobility assistance work.
Her sire had produced in a previous litter a reliable working mobility assistance dog. And he has a full sister who was also successfully trained for and is currently working as an assistance dog. So it made sense to get another pup from a line proven for the ability to work.
Cypher has shown to be quite a reliable and addicted to working.
She has focus and as she mentally and physically matures , nearing being finished in this training is becoming impressive.
Her retrieve drive is high with willingness and adaptability in abundance. She will retrieve any object she is pointed toward,even coins.
Trainability is high and learns quickly . Almost TOO quickly.
Loves water and water retrieves.
No possessiveness issues or territorialism. Very agile in her movements like her parents and is fast on land and water. Yet in the assistance work is able to without effort slow herself to the handler's pace and be patient in all kinds of environments. Overall is a happy go lucky sweet tempered working dog.
She is 75 lbs in working trim, well built with a very nice proper coat.

As a reliable working dog she is beyond value . Not to mention a great companion and easy to live with.

Nora in Colorado

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Thank you so much for making this possible for me Ed. You'll never understand how much I appreciate the Chesapeake you gave me. Brei has brightened my life and made things so much easier, not only with his assistance training but his mere presence. You raise amazing dogs!

Jennifer

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Rigger at 12 weeks is doing very well and is turning into an incredable companion. He is retrieving very well and his tempermant is outstanding. He seems to learn things very fast. He is very birdy and has a great nose. He has been retrieving alive and dead pigeons for a few weeks now. I am really happy with him.

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This is my first time buying any dog or any animal online from a person that i didn't know. After talking to ED for a time i felt like he was someone that you could trust. I bought a male puppy we call Rustly. He is everything ED said he would be. A fast learner, smart ,and doesn't forget - sometimes a little hard headed. This is the first chesse i have had in 40 years. If i was to get another it would be from ED

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I started with Chesapeakes in Minnesota in the late 1940's (60 years ago) befriending and competing at trials back then with people like Phil Gagnon (F.T.Ch. Raindrop of Deerwood) and Rodger Reopelle (F.T.Ch. Wild Goose Chase). Now living in Texas, I went back to Minnesota and the Dakotas to buy in Chesapeakes bred to hunt. Over the past ten years I have acquired 3 Wyndham Chesapeakes from Ed Atkins that had the working ability, temperament and looks to satisfy an old hand in the breed. Have also traveled up to ND to hunt with Ed and his dogs.

George Nielsen
Wimberley, Texas

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He's doing great! He's great. We just got a new skiff and outfitted it with a dog ladder, so thats how he's been spending his summer...swimming in the Bay.

I had one of my friends dogsit him. She was out walking him and was stopped by a guy in a car who apparently had a Chessie. He said Bosun is the prettiest Chessie he's seen. They are coming over tonight for dinner and for the dogs to meet.

Jesse's been training Bosun in the mornings-because its been in the high 90s here...but he can now take hand signals and do whistle stops as well. We'll never run him in a field trial-but all of these things will hopefully make this bird season even better than last (which was awesome)...so we are looking forward to that.

He's a great hunting dog and a great pet...we're really happy.

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My wife Lindsey and I first met Ed at an outdoor event held by our local chapter of Minnesota Waterfowlers. It is an event focused on hunting, and getting kids involved in the outdoors. He had a few chessies with him, and we had our old male chessie “Hydro” with us. We talked about his dogs, and I left with a favorable impression of his breeding program and his extensive breed experience.

A few years later I was looking for another pup and happened to come across a business card he had given us when we first met. In the time since we had last talked, he and the dogs had moved to North Dakota. We visited on the phone many times and exchanged emails. Ed never tired of my questions, some of which, looking back, must have seemed silly to him! Ed has always been willing to share his knowledge of the breed whenever I have asked.

We ended up purchasing “Tug” as a puppy from Ed. He was a very active youngster, and has been a blast to train. He is now two years old, and has hunted grouse, pheasants, and waterfowl. He works close and steady on pheasants, which suits the terrain here in Western Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota. We hunt a lot of cattail sloughs with heavy cover, and he does not hesitate to enter it and hunt hard. He is steady to shot, and has a fearless water entry. He was breaking ice last year retrieving late season mallards. His coat is like no other chessie we have had. Hunting in the cold weather does not faze him a bit. We are currently working on his blind work, and hope to continue to run him in HRC Hunt Tests (He has his SHR title). He is also an absolute clown around the house! In addition, we think he is a great looking dog. When you look at a Wyndham dog, they have a certain look that Ed is breeding for. We receive many comments on his conformation. We have been very happy with our Wyndham dog, and would purchase another from Ed.

Damon Sweep

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I have had chessies since 1983.
I bought a chessie pup from Ed 4 years ago because I was looking for some of the old bloodlines my best longlived working and hunting dogs had descended from. He has kept and preserved in his bloodlines what I was looking for and could not find elsewhere.
The current young dog I bought from Ed as a pup has natural quartering with a very powerful retrieve drive and a soft mouth. Great trainability and such a sweet willing dog as I could have ever wanted. She is one of the most powerful river swimming dogs I have ever had for swift water. She calculates drift and current when retrieving. She has the correct water repellant coat and body type of the older style chessies with a willingness to do whatever I put her to work doing. Very inventive adaptive dog who wants to be with me and loves people.
Has great resistance to heat and cold and has wonderful endurance. And she is an easy dog to live with at home or afield. Even if she was a thieving pest as a puppy...
I am so thrilled that I got her. It was like a blast from the past walked in my door.
Nora in Colorado

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I have known Ed Atkins for nearly 20 years. I was first introduced to his dogs when I kennel-sat for him. His dogs were well trained and of gentle temperment. Thirteen years agao I brought home a male puppy, Ch. Wyndam's Keynote. He was a joy to have. I don't know if I got more compliments regarding his looks or temperment. Stoney was just a typical Wyndhan Chessie. When I lost Stone to age, I immediately brought home his grear-grandshon. Ed's Flat-coats are equal to the Chessies. But more important Ed's dogs are true hunters, easy to train, eager to retrieve with soft mouths. I wish I lived closer to him so I could interact with the dogs more. They are fun.

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