Great Lakes Hunting Retrievers

Great Lakes Hunting Retrievers Great Lakes Hunting Retrievers is a kennel specializing in top quality sporting Golden Retrievers.

Great Lakes Hunting Retrievers specializes in the breeding of premium Hunting Golden Retriever pedigrees. Inspired by the book, “Where the Red Fern Grows,” and wanting to get into bird hunting; I purchased my first Golden Retriever (Molly) when I was 15 years old with the money I earned from refereeing in the local youth football league. Molly and I were inseparable; I shot my first pheasants, duc

ks and geese over her. Due to all the good times I had hunting, fishing and growing up with Molly, she inspired me to help restore the Golden Retriever breed back to their primary purpose of hunting. The Golden Retriever originated in Britain somewhere during the mid and late 1800’s by a Scotsman, Sir Dudley Majoribanks, later known as Lord Tweedmouth. The Golden Retriever was bred as a sporting pedigree by crossing the Wavy-Coat Retriever with a Yellow-Colored Tweed Water Spaniel (a breed that is now extinct) and then later cross bred with the Red Setter and Sandy-Colored Bloodhounds. Hunting was the original intent of the bloodline especially when being introduced to Canada and America in the 1920’s. Since then, the Golden Retriever has been bred with other purposes in mind, and not all breeders have used the most ethical practices, thus creating unhealthy bloodlines. Our intent is to help restore this breed back to their original purpose as a healthy pedigree that is known as an all purpose bird dog. My two current dogs, R***r and Daisy, both come from some of the healthiest and best hunting pedigrees in the Golden Retriever community and will produce a great bloodline of their own. We plan on starting this kennel with R***r and Daisy, but with the intention of acquiring more Golden Retrievers that match our purpose and can add value to our mission.

Merry Christmas from our crew to yours!
12/25/2025

Merry Christmas from our crew to yours!

Congratulations to the Holler family with the addition of our little Red girl joining their tribe. We're going to miss h...
12/06/2025

Congratulations to the Holler family with the addition of our little Red girl joining their tribe. We're going to miss her, but glad to see her joining a wonderful young and active family Hailing from Ann Arbor, MI.

Congratulations to Mickie as she was surprised with an early Christmas present by her family today. She always wanted a ...
12/06/2025

Congratulations to Mickie as she was surprised with an early Christmas present by her family today. She always wanted a Golden Retriever, so this year her family made her dream come true and we're glad our Green Girl will be going to a loving and active outdoor family. We'll miss you Green Girl, but we know you'll enjoy Mickie's companionship and family adventures!

Congratulations to Devon and Clinard on their new addition to their family as they're taking home our yellow girl today....
12/06/2025

Congratulations to Devon and Clinard on their new addition to their family as they're taking home our yellow girl today. They traveled all the way from SC to pick her up and have big plans for her hunting and competing in hunt tests. We'll miss you Yellow Girl, but you have a bright future ahead of you.

Congratulations to Lexi & Logan on the addition to their family as they took our light blue boy home today. We'll miss h...
12/06/2025

Congratulations to Lexi & Logan on the addition to their family as they took our light blue boy home today. We'll miss him (aka Griffin), but we're excited to see him go to such a great young and active family in Michigan. Can't wait to see and hear all about your new adventures, so Go Blue!

Congratulations to Demi and Shawn on the addition of our Orange girl to their family today. We're going to miss her, but...
12/06/2025

Congratulations to Demi and Shawn on the addition of our Orange girl to their family today. We're going to miss her, but we're excited to see and get a chance to pheasant hunt with her again in the future when we visit our friends at Wern Valley in Wisconsin.

Congratulations to Steve and Deb on the addition to their family as they're taking our Royal Blue boy home today. We're ...
12/06/2025

Congratulations to Steve and Deb on the addition to their family as they're taking our Royal Blue boy home today. We're going to miss him, but we're excited to hear about all the swimming adventures he's going to have on Lake Michigan.

Congratulations to Austin and Brynly as they're adding our purple girl to their family. We're going to miss her, but exc...
12/06/2025

Congratulations to Austin and Brynly as they're adding our purple girl to their family. We're going to miss her, but excited to see all the antler sheds she hunts up in Pennsylvania!

Congratulations to Wyatt Fields and Fiona Howard as they're headed home with their new puppy tonight. Our Grey Girl is o...
12/06/2025

Congratulations to Wyatt Fields and Fiona Howard as they're headed home with their new puppy tonight. Our Grey Girl is off to a great hunting home in Michigan. We'll miss her, but we're looking forward to training with her in the future!

Big day full of adventures for the puppies today, they were introduced to both pheasant wings (which the entire litter w...
11/23/2025

Big day full of adventures for the puppies today, they were introduced to both pheasant wings (which the entire litter was in deep pursuit of catching those wings), and they ventured down to the edge of the pond, which several of the puppies walked into the water some. Enjoy the pictures...

Puppies are taking advantage of the warm weather today!
11/14/2025

Puppies are taking advantage of the warm weather today!

Puppies are now over 4 weeks old and doing very well as they're continuing to gain weight, develop, and show more person...
11/11/2025

Puppies are now over 4 weeks old and doing very well as they're continuing to gain weight, develop, and show more personality as they play with their litter mates. They're starting to eat soft puppy food, growing their puppy teeth, and Sadie is starting to wean them.

May have 1 more female available, please message me for more details, and enjoy these round of pictures.

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S36W29751 Wern Way
Waukesha, WI
53189

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