Pheasant Ridge Ranch

Our Beginnings

Dogs were always very active in our lives. My husband hunted with his own German Shorthairs ever since he was a teenager. Labradors joined the hunts as a wedding present.  We started in 1987 working our dogs and occasionally having a litter of puppies when we knew the breeding would produce healthy and sound representatives of the Labrador Retriever and German Shorthaired Pointer breeds.

German Shorthairs enhanced our hunting experiences with their unrelenting effort to find birds for us. They are truly an asset in the field and a real joy to train. Occasionally we bred our Shorthairs and had litters which benefited our own kennel, our hunts and those hunters who purchased one of our pups. GSP’s have always been a part of our family, our home and our kennel.

In 1989, I saw my first Fox Red Labrador when one of my close friends who lived in Ireland, had purchased a female, Fox Red Labrador.  When her dog began to age and decline, I gave her a Fox Red Labrador male puppy for Christmas.  She named him, Kelleygreen’s Arthur Plantagenet. He visited us often and we are very thankful to have included him in our breeding program.  He helped produce excellent Fox Red Labrador representatives of the breed.  Two of  the pups from his litter with Victoria, named Richard and Elizabeth, completed competitions in the show ring, earned points and titles of International Champions when Fox Red Labradors were hardly ever seen in the United States.

We only bred when we had two exceptional dogs whose pedigrees and whole being helped confirm they would produce the true German Shorthaired Pointer or Fox Red Labrador Retriever abilities, temperament and conformation in an exceptional litter of puppies.  We did not produce litters of puppies to make money.

Quality was more important to us than quantity.