View from Hope Springs Farm

Located in Fauquier County, Virginia, our farm is nestled in the rolling foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Our 30 acres of pasture, woods and 3 ponds is the perfect setting to raise and train Chesapeake Bay retriever puppies. Started dogs occasionally available. Owner is the Eastern/Overseas Regional Director on the board of American Chesapeake Club and secretary of Rappahannock River Retriever Club near Warrenton VA.

Puppies are sold with 2 year genetic guarantee. Parents have hips/elbows xrayed/evaluated by OFA and ACVO CERF test on eyes. Primary emphasis on good dispositions, good looks and trainability. Seven generations of our dogs belong to satisfied customers and include those with hunt test and field trial accomplishments, show champions and obedience titles as well as family and hunting companions.

See classifieds for up to date info. on our current litters. We have pups born in October and a litter due January for early spring delivery. We also have a very fine dark deadgrass male pup ready now we may consider selling to the right home--we think he's very special, fancy enough to show and very keen. He's now 4 months, retrieving birds on land and in water, crate trained, house broken (well--as well as they can be at that age.!) and comes when called and on whistle and LOVES to train.

The fall litter is out of Sterling aka Hope Springs Dowry JH (Southern Md's Dances with Wolves MH**WDQ x CH Puffin II JH CD WDX); the sire is a young deadgrass MH with field trial qualifying placements. Sterling is a stocky, broad chested ash gray female with a wonderful thick, heavy coat, an excellent work ethic and just a sweetheart--she loves all people and other dogs. Should be lots of deadgrass and ash in this litter. Our winter litter due early in January should be a decent sized litter as Jib, the dam (center of top photo) is huge. Jib, aka Hope Springs Rufsail JH** (DC AFC Sunday's Rufwater Canvasback MH x CH Puffin II JH CD) is a hard going, excellent marking, fearless worker, she's tall, muscular and leggy and muscular but with a very appealing head and intense yellow eyes. She's been bred to Tugboat Woods Colt MH, a line breeding on Chestnut Hills Ironwood Oak MH. In the bottom photo, Jib is the dark brown bitch on the right, her daughter from Jan. 08 is the dark ash pup in the back. Jib has OFA Excellent hips, OFA Normal elbows, CERF and PRA Clear by parentage.

Pictured below is one of our colorful litters with ash, deadgrass, sedge and brown puppies. If you want a Hope Springs puppy we strongly urge you to reserve it now, as most are sold before birth. Call Julie at 540/364-9480; we love to talk about our dogs.

BELOW, some of our dogs. Jib, far right, is due to whelp in January and Sterling, next to her, is the dam of the fall litter. Their dam and pups' granddam is Puffin, the red-brown dog in the center. Panda, facing left, is a 9 month old pup and the two little pups are from Puffin's August litter.

Chesapeake Bay Retriever

Julie Reardon
Hope Springs Farm
Orlean, Virginia 20128

Breeding quality gun dogs for over 25 years.

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I have purchased an ASH female from Ms Reardon , whom is very knowledgable of the breed . She went out of her way to help me get Sterling home , and answer any questions i had . She represented Sterling perfectly ,,,although Sterling was a lot nicer than she stated . my next CBR purchase will be a Hope Springs pup period . In 30 years of owning retrievers Ms Reardon was by far the best breeder i have ever dealt with . If anyone has any questions about hope Springs please feel free to email me at copiahcreek@bellsouth.net .

Julie i still can never thank you enough for Sterling she is my pal .......Alan

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Mrs. Julie Reardon sold me a puppy about 7 months ago it was a great experience dealing with Mrs. Reardon. I got to see my puppys mom Rufsail and his grandmother PuffinII both beautiful with friendly and great dispostions.Mrs.Reardon took me down to her pond where i watched my puppy swim and retrieve a bumper at only 11 weeks.Simba my puppy was already responding to whistle commands,was crate trained , introduced to birds and was started house broken.My puppy has excellant drive and is very easy to train with a great dispostion around kids,adults and other dogs I highly recommend Mrs.Reardon to anyone loooking for a very nice puppy, when i purchase another dog i will defintely buy from Mrs. Reardon if you have a questions please contact me at buckshot98@aol.com

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