Kirby Mountain Sporting Dogs

240 Locust Ridge Road, East Burke, Vermont 05832; 802-626-5282

Closed Sundays & Mondays; All other days by APPOINTMENT ONLY

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Puppies Currently Available – Labrador Retrievers and English Cocker Spaniels – Please Call for Details

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Current Litters Ready-to-Go

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Welcome to the Kirby Mountain Sporting Dogs site. Our family’s business focus is the breeding and training sporting dogs. We are located in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, the heart of grouse and woodcock hunting. We are a small, family-run business, allowing us to keep our hands on every aspect of breeding and training. We breed Brittanys, Labrador Retrievers, English Springer Spaniels, and English Cocker Spaniels. Our puppies are very special to both us and their future owners. Our breeding program is researched and maintained to insure the optimum in health, temperament, intelligence, and performance in all our sporting dogs.

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We are a small, family-run business located in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, prime grouse and woodcock habitat.  Since 1990, our business has grown with our family from part-time work to a year-round breeding and training facility for a variety of sporting dogs.

 

Because our dogs live in our house with our family and our other pets, it is important that these dogs are well-behaved, gentle, and predictable.  If this is not the case, a dog cannot live here, or more importantly, it will not be bred.  (These dogs are spayed/neutered and placed in appropriate homes.)  We want you to be 100% happy with your Kirby Mountain dog, so we work hard to match you with the appropriate dog.  Whether you buy a dog in order to hunt, hike, fish, bike, canoe, walk, run, sail, or to cuddle, hug, or play with, we want our dog to become a member of your family.

 

By breeding, raising, and training a variety of sporting dogs we are able to observe each breed’s strengths.  By speaking with you about your expectations and needs, we can recommend the best dog for you.  In the field our dogs show a combination of energetic performance and extreme natural ability.  Our dogs are field dogs from champion lines that have proven their health and performance over generations of competition and hunting.

 

About 80% of the dogs we train have been bred from our lines here at Kirby Mountain Sporting Dogs.  This means we are able to see how well they work, and we are able to evaluate our breeding program on a continuing basis.  Many of our clients choose to compete with Kirby Mountain dogs at NHRA and AKC hunt test, at bird trials, and even in the show ring.  Clients place titles on Kirby Mountain dogs in agility testing and obedience trials.  Whether a client chooses to compete, hunt, or breed a Kirby Mountain dog, our focus is to breed intelligent and easily trained dogs that provide years of companionship and pleasure for their owners.  With our focus on breeding intelligence and trainability, a small percentage of our dogs have been used solely as working dogs:  by professional guides and by different facilities to chase nuisance birds.

 

For the lifetime of your Kirby Mountain sporting dog, you can give us a call or schedule a time to visit, watch training, or receive an evaluation.  In addition, if you have a favorite picture of your dog or dogs, drop us a note—we literally have hundreds of photos, but we always love more!

 

 

English Cocker Spaniel
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Updated 06-2009

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