If you are willing to wait for one of our English Golden Retriever puppies (sometimes referred to as English Cream Golden Retriever puppies), we don’t think you will be disappointed. We appreciate and strive for beauty and good conformation. However, our primary goal as Golden Retriever breeders is producing the best of temperaments along with good health.
The parents of our Golden Retrievers have titles to prove their worth in both the conformation ring as well as the obedience ring. All breeding dogs have excellent health clearances including cardiac clearances with a cardiologist, yearly eye clearances, excellent elbows, and very tight hips that are either rated good or excellent. See the Our Dogs page for more information, pictures, and proofs of health testing.
Then, the icing on the Summer Brook cake is our Focused Puppy Training program. See the many videos linked below to truly appreciate it.
Current Litters
We don’t have anything currently born and available.
Future Litters
Our next litter will most likely be bred in fall 2022, born in late 2022, and ready for new homes in early 2023. We will possibly make some minor changes to our training program, our contract, or our pricing. At this point, we are not even sure if we will be breeding anything soon. We will not be evaluating questionnaires until our plans are firm. Once our plans are firm, our next litter will be announced on this page. Check back later if you are interested in a Summer Brook puppy. We will make decisions and begin evaluating questionnaires most likely in late July or August.
Future Changes
We will offer an 8 Week Training program for our next litter. See our Expectations Page for more information on the training we provide these puppies. We will upload and post videos showing a few 7 week old puppies trained with our new program prior to opening our reservation list and taking deposits.
Other Options
Please feel free to browse our website as you look for other breeders and as you begin training and raising your new puppy. You will find most of the pages on our site helpful no matter who you get your puppy from. Subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts through the link on the right. We hope to begin posting more often after current puppies are in new homes.
Our Requirements
We have more requirements than most. The biggest requirement that keeps us from being a match for most is that someone must have considerable time for the puppy. If everyone in the family works away from home full time, we wouldn’t be the breeder for you. Even if you work from home, you must have considerable time to devote to a puppy. Golden Retrievers thrive on human companionship and it is important to us that our puppies have the best possible life.
More Videos of Past English Cream Golden Retriever Puppies
The video below demonstrates the training of each of the seven puppies in a past Piper litter. We accelerated the training for the seven puppies in the video . This degree of training is exceptional. However, it is not our norm for puppies at barely 9 weeks of age. This video exemplifies the training at 10-11 weeks of age.
If Interested in a Future Summer Brook Golden Retriever Puppy
If you are interested in a puppy from Summer Brook, see our How to Reserve a Puppy page, as well as our FAQ pages for more information. Also, see our page on How Our List Works for more information on how our waiting list works. If not interested in a Summer Brook puppy, you might enjoy our page on English Golden Retriever Breeders for some interesting information on choosing another breeder.
Puppy Questionnaire
It has recently come to our attention that at least one person has sent us a questionnaire that we did not receive. We are always prompt to email people that send us questionnaires to let them know that we have received them. It is extremely rare that you won’t get some kind of response from us within 24 hours.
Therefore, please check with us if you don’t receive a response from us as this likely is an indication that your questionnaire didn’t go through.
How We Raise Our English Golden Retriever Puppies
We raise our puppies inside our home with a very well thought out plan. Our plan builds on the genetics that our puppies are born with. We’ve planned and scheduled every detail at every age. See our How We Raise Our Puppies page for more details.
Training Program
See our Focused Puppies Training Program for the details. You must see the videos to appreciate what we do with these very young puppies. Our training goals go beyond training behaviors. We train puppies to WANT to engage and work with a person. Therefore, training focus and a good work ethic is first.
For the past two years, over 90% of families getting puppies from us have chosen to get our training program. Many of these initially planned on picking up their puppy at 7 1/2 weeks and then decided to leave their puppy for the training after looking more into it. For this reason and more importantly because we believe it is in every puppy’s best interest to stay with us until at least 10 weeks, all Summer Brook English English Cream Golden Retriever puppies starting with our fall 2020 litters will leave us with a start in training. Families love our program and so do our puppies.
For more information, see first of all our Raising Puppies, Trained Puppies, and Trained Puppies Expectations pages for how we raise and train our puppies. Then, go to our About Us page which gives information on our family and who will be working with the puppies. Also see our After Puppy Pick Up page for additional videos and how to continue the training that we start.
See our videos and blog pages on Puppy Care and Training Tips once you get your new fur baby!
Our Trainer’s Accomplishments
Karen (Darrell’s wife and the primary trainer at Summer Brook) is a very competitive trainer in the AKC obedience ring. In fact, in the three short months that we were without puppies in 2019, she trained both Piper and Tara to the AKC Utility level, earned the Utility title on both dogs, and then in just a couple of weekends went on to put 19 OTCH points on Tara.
Karen and Tara had a hugely successful weekend during their last trial before winding down for breeding and having puppies again and then going into seclusion for Covid. Tara received HIT (High in Trial) AND received Combined High in trial, not only once, but BOTH DAYS of the trial. HIT is awarded to the dog and handler with the highest score in the trial. Combined High in trial goes to the dog and handler with the highest combined score from the Utility B and Open B classes (the two classes for those dogs who have completed the Utility title; these are the only classes where dogs earn OTCH or Obedience Trial Champion points). (Piper is equally smart and capable! However, her training time has been divided between obedience and agility.)
Latest Accomplishments
During six short months of showing Tara in 2021, Karen has put Tara’s total number of OTCH points up to 70, total number of first place wins in Utility-B to 10, and total number of first places in Open-B to 6. Tara has also earned an OM2 in these six months and started working toward her RACH in rally obedience. In just a few trials, Tara earned 15 (out of 20) triple “Qs” toward this RACH including winning triple combined HIT 11 of these 15 runs and combined HIT 12 times. That’s being the highest scoring dog in the entire trial more than 2/3 of the times she entered! In addition, Tara would have won at least one other time but instead she came in second to our Jake.
In the same year, Jake earned a RACH in minimal time with extremely high scores and at least 7 triple HITs. He also has worked his way through the obedience titles earning a UD and then going on to pick up 9 OTCH points (in spite of taking 2nd place to our Tara at several trials). At Jake’s very first trial competing at the UDX level, Jake won first place in utility with a very high score of 199 1/2! (200 is a perfect score.)
Our Training Page
We discuss more about Karen’s accomplishments and skill on our training page. There is also a link to a video of her at an AKC obedience trial in the Open obedience ring as well as the Utility Obedience Ring. These videos demonstrate Karen and our now retired Jack doing the most advanced AKC obedience exercises.
Golden Retriever Puppy and Training Prices
See our puppy questionnaire for details of puppy and training prices.
How to Reserve
Click on our How to Reserve page if you are ready to reserve one of our puppies. This page will guide you through the process.
