About Lost Creek

Our Story

We’re Lost Creek Farm, located in Jack County, Texas. We’re a small family farm where we have a garden and raise fainting goats, chickens, ducks, a goose named Gladys and guinea fowl. And dogs. Dogs are our favorite.

Pretty much everyone on the farm has a job. Some of our dogs have very specific jobs, in fact. The Border Collies, for example, help move goats from place to place when help is needed. Minty and Duke, both Great Pyrenees protect the farm at night from predators while we sleep. Baldie the Goldendoodle is the senior family pet and he’s the alpha. He’s good at breaking up disagreements. Hank is a stray who wandered up one day and decided to stay. He’s now my right hand man. Mellie, the basset hound, just sleeps on the porch…but she’s a terrific guard dog!

So why do we like Doodles?

We’ve been pet owners our entire lives. Dogs large & small. Lap dogs & hunters. Retrievers & Pointers. We’ve owned Yorkies, Poms, Labs & Cockers. Terriers, Poodles, Dachsunds & Hounds. We’ve lived with and trained them all. But never have I had a companion like a Doodle.

Doodles are the product of the smartest dogs on Earth. They are a genetic combination of their parents (Poodles bred with another breed, typically Golden Retievers, Border Collies, Bernese Mountain Dogs, etc) and the result is often an almost perfect pet.

But we ALSO offer AKC English Labrador Retrievers!

Our favorite dogs, long before the popularity of Doodles, were retrievers. Specifically, Labrador Retrievers. We’ve spent quite a lot of time around amazing Labs, and in our opinion, there’s no better purebred dog than the English Labrador Retriever.

So beginning again in 2022, we started offering AKC English Labrador Retrievers. Whether you’re a hunter or just looking for America’s favorite dog, these are the Labs for you.

We’re focused on champion-quality structure and the fantastic personalities and temperaments of the English Lab. We’ll have black, chocolate and the stunning fox red.

We try to stay in the middle; smaller than the big industry breeders, but larger than your typical backyard breeder.

It’s actually tough doing it the way we do it. We try to have enough litters so families don’t have to wait too long, but sometimes waiting lists can still be 6 months to a year or even longer. However, we’re still small enough that we tend to fall in love with every puppy as an individual. This makes it hard when it’s time for puppies to go home, but it’s great for the puppies because they always get special one on one attention.

All of our adults dogs who live here on the farm get to spend time both inside and outside. They all have unique personalities and our family has fun with them all. And when it’s time for a momma to have her puppies she’s usually in a bedroom for the first few weeks, under constant supervision. For this reason, it’s easy for us to become attached to all the new babies, and invariably, one of the kids will “latch on” to one of the puppies and want to make him her own!

Our use of GUARDIAN HOMES...

In order to allow us to have more litters, more often, we began using guardian homes in 2019. We believe that all dogs are special, so we have partnered with other families, all of whom we know and trust. All of our mommas “grew up” on the farm. Most spent their first 12-18 months (or more) living here with us, before moving in with their forever family. Once they moved in with their forever family, the mommas live normal lives as family pets. Then occasionally, usually once per year, the momma will come back to the farm to have their puppies. Once the puppies are weaned, (usually at about 7 weeks, depending on the litter), the momma returns to her forever family. Finally, when momma “retires”, she spends the rest of her life with her guardian family – her forever home.

This is a very important part of our puppy business as it allows us to provide more quality puppies in a safe, healthy way. This is a little different than most breeders and how they use guardian homes, however we do occasionally allow a puppy to move in with their guardian home at a yonger age. We take this aspect of the business very seriously and vet those potential families carefully. (If you’d like information on becoming a guardian family, click here.)

So we all live here, as one big happy family.

It’s not uncommon for one photograph to capture chickens scratching away at the pasture, baby goats playing baby goat games, a cat meandering through, all while several dogs play a fierce game of fetch. For the most part, everyone gets along! Granted, sometimes mommas don’t always agree and Duke can sometimes get very protective of his chickens and goats, but problems are surprisingly rare. And we feel the unique environment here helps create quality puppies due to healthy, well-balanced parents, and unique stimuli during puppy socialization.

We'd love for you to become a part of our family.

I encourage you to do your research. Feel free to ask questions. And most importantly, try to find a breeder who’ll become “extended family” after you adopt your new family member. We hope you choose us!

Welcome to Lost Creek Farm!