Our dog Honey is a beautiful yellow lab we purchased from Sterling Labs.  One of my goals in purchasing a lab was to train her to be a therapy dog.  Honey has a great outgoing personality, loves people and is very trainable.  Currently, Honey has completed a course in obedience and is now working on her second class to improve her skills.  We are working with a certified therapy dog and handler to teach Honey what she will need to do once she becomes certified.  Once a week we visit a local rest home for her training.  Our goals are to pass the AKC Good Citizen Test, Therapy Dog Certification test, and to compete AKC trials for obedience.  Honey has been a great dog to train and have as a companion.  Cindy

Briscoe is a huge but charming pup. He is now sitting to greet. People. Learns commands so quickly but forgets them when it isn't fun to remember. He is so bonded to me that he has some separation issues. He has a lot of fun at Metrodog where he gets to play with someone the same size and craziness and comes home pooped and cuddly. He loves Old Ella and is more respectful of her ears and face and wants out of crate at nite to cuddle and sleep w her. Briscoe is the best puppy. Hope u are all doing well and thank the children for their playing with the puppies and making the puppies love people so much. Joanne

Hello Lady, Hank has turned out great. I cannot thank you enough. He has not chewed on one thing, we take him everywhere. Has a great disposition. My kids consider him there brother and they both have great control of him. Looking forward to hunting him this fall. If you got a place for pheasants let me know. Hope all is well with your family. Talk to u soon. Gil

Biscuit is doing great.  He is almost 90 lbs now.  His fur is really soft and fluffy.  He has the sweetest eyes and is very muscular.  His favorite thing to do is go swimming; he is a great swimmer.  His second favorite thing to do is go for a walk or run.  He is a great running partner.  He is a great cuddler too!  He is still very sweet, very smart, very patient, very loyal, very energetic, very playful, very eager to learn, very alert to what is going on outside, and still very much a silly puppy.  He will do any trick for a treat. He loves meeting new people.  He ADORES children and is very gentle with them.  He makes us laugh every day with the goofy things he does, like growling at the couch, or chasing the sprinkler water, or inspecting the vacuum cleaner.  He likes to steal socks from the laundry basket and run around the house with them.  He likes to chase bugs and flies outside.  He never leaves our side.  Everyone in the neighborhood seems to know him as "that cute puppy over there".   We are really lucky to have him in our daily lives.  He is a dream dog.

We brought Sara home on October 11, 2008.  From the moment we brought her home, she was instantly a big part of the family and a companion for all of us! Sara developed a special relationship with each of us! With her “Grandpa” she developed a fun loving playful relationship, with her “Grandma” she developed a respect and utmost appreciation (especially for her cooking), with her “Uncle” they are best buds who love to take naps, wrestle, and watch TV together, and with me, her “Mom” it is just that, a wonderful mom-dog/daughter relationship. When it was time for bed on the first night, Sara jumped right into her crate and hardly cried – mainly because Marianne had already got the puppies used to being in a crate/kennel.  It took a few nights, but after that, Sara slept through the whole night, which made everyone even more impressed. Our family would not be the same without her.  When you come home from work, and you see her big brown eyes and beautiful smile, it makes everything okay and all your worries melt away. Her favorite store is Petsmart! As soon as we pull into the parking lot, she starts pacing the back of the car with excitement. She loves to play ball! And she’ll tell you when she wants to play with her “inside” voice and not her bark! She could play ball for hours! She has even mastered how to actually throw the ball back to you with her mouth! She is so incredibly smart! You show her how to do something once or twice and she remembers how to do it! Mary Anne has bred an amazing dog! They are amazing companions that seek to please you.  When the time is right, I plan to get another dog, but only from Mary Anne!

Leslie K. Emery

Hi Mary Anne

Just wanted to say "hello"  We love our puppy she is a good girl named her "SADIE" she attends puppy day care twice a week and is a quick learner.

Everyone always ask me what kind of dog she is because of her color! I have strangers take photo's just for fun when we our out because she is so pretty!

Anita Main

Baja Limos

Our Dog “Sam”,

We chose Sam because of the breeder, she was so nice and friendly, her family made us feel welcome, inviting us over and viewing all of the puppies, she was not pushy at all.  She allowed us several visits in making our choice, the whole family was great. We had a yellow lab for 12 years and last year he recently passed and our daughter has been ill for about 2 years and I think Sam lifts her spirits, he makes her feel good, when she isn’t really feeling well, he will lay with her for as long as it takes her to feel better, he wakes her up everyday, he makes her laugh.  Sam is very smart, at 4.5 months he sits, lays, stays, heels, and loves to learn, he even knows what his ball is. He does love to sleep (and is a bed hog). But he never means harm; I would say he is a calmer lab pup. Our other lab was very active as a puppy, Sam has never chewed anything that is ours, and he does have toys and a blanket that he loves. I would highly recommend Mary Anne Sterling puppies; Sterling Labs are everything we hoped to find in a breeder. She is very knowledgeable with the breeding and what type of breeding and the different types of labs and delivering a wonderful dog, great personalities, I loved visiting her kennels because we could actually see all of the dogs, and interact with the puppies.

 One day we hope to get another and she would be the one we would call.Thank you, so much   love to all     TheWatson’s

     Loomis California

Here is our dreamy-eyed charmer. A really social guy who won't be separated from us. Comes every time to his name. Not a ball guy yet. Smarty who can and will open child-proof gates and French doors. At just 5 months we are still crating him if we are not home to avoid redecorating our home! Metrodog is a blessing for daycare some days and the next day he is mellow. He still learns commands in just a few tries. If only we can have the patience to continue reenforcing them! Our trainer is smitten by him and everyone he meets enjoys Briscoe. I would reAlly love to know what his litter mates are like! What a special guy. My bad--- i'm spoiling him and I am trying to do better. Regards. Joanne

Mary Anne and family,

We adore our "Sophie" she is such a joy to have around and loved by all.

Our vet breeds labs and is continually infatuated with her beautiful coloring.

He knew of "dad" and is impressed with our treasure! Way to go Rita!

We plan to take a Holiday photo of the girls and Sophie in the next couple of days, will forward a pix

with a more detailed update. Your web-site is great!

Much thanks for a wonderful experience.

You, your family and your labs are truly a treasure.

Chris Gray

We just celebrated our 1 year anniversary with our boy, Luke.  Throughout this last year he has become such a wonderful part of our family.  He’s funny, gentle and loveable.  We love to take Luke to the river where he is so happy to run, play, and swim, yet always has a protective eye on the kids.  We’ve received so many compliments from others on what a good looking dog he is and we can only agree.  He is wonderful to work with and so eager to please.  We couldn’t have asked for a better companion for our family.

Thank you so much!

The Naso Family.

Hi Mary Anne,

I wanted to let you know we're really having a good time with Buddy. We've got a dog trainer coming over once a week to train us, I mean the dog. We've installed a doggy door, which he likes. He's pretty much potty trained. We've got him sleeping in a kennel at night. He's a really good dog, the whole family loves him.

How's his brothers and sisters doing? We have some friends that may be interested.

Thanks for sending us his papers, we did register him.

Bryan and Shelby Fairchild

A note from the Weber family.

We have hit the jackpot choosing Mary Anne for our breeder at Sterling Labs.  Hank is just the most amazing puppy (what parent would not say this :-).  He is incredibly smart, he listens well, sleeps through the night and is fully potty\crate trained at just three months old.  He is a great puppy, loves the kids so much and learns very fast.  He already knows how to sit, stay, and lay down.  He goes everywhere and is well adjusted.  We are such a lucky family to have him in our lives and are grateful for the Sterling kids spending so much time with him when he was a newbie...many thanks to Sterling Labs for producing great puppies.

I'm not sure what Buddy weighed when these were taken just this week but he weighed 90 lbs about three weeks ago.

Geoff

my name is kelsey and i got   a female choc lab from you in august. i just wanted to send you some pics and let you know she is a very awesome dog and we lover her so much we named her Kabella bear star thompson she is almost 55 lbs already.  She is healthy and very very active she loves all the other dogs and gets along very well thank you so much for my puppy!!

Mary Anne:

I write to thank you again for providing such a wonderful dog to our family.  We registered him with the AKC and his full name is Augustus Pliny Walker aka "Auggie."  He is a beautiful dog with a great disposition.  And, he seems to grow between morning and night getting bigger every day!  Here are a few photos of him taken in the last week.  We'll check back with you again in the coming weeks/months.

Gratefully,

The Walkers

Hello Mary Anne,

Here is Frodo; photos as promised!

Thanks,

Geeta

Dyna is in Christmas stocking heaven this morning! Have a Merry Christmas!

The Benson Family

from Texas

I just wanted to give you a heads up on Molly’s progress.  She has been excellent.  I already have her fetching, sitting, shaking and going to her crate when I say “bed”.  The kids have really taken to her as well.  I have attached a few pics for you and your family.  Let your kids know that she is very well loved and in a great home.    Take care. Steve Brown

Hi Mary Anne,

I just wanted to thank you again for providing us with the best possible companion we could have ever asked for. She's a total goof, a loyal sweetheart, and a kind soul to everyone she meets.

Funny thing happened the other day, and that is that we met a half brother to Honeybear. His name is Leo and his dad is Jeb from Sugar Pine. It was so funny! I was at the dog park, and up comes this adorable little puppy. I was half in shock because he had the same markings and sweet face as my dog. The owner came up we realized that our pups are related. How cute is that? They spent an hour playing together.

I really don't know what I did before I had HB. She is such a blessing and I love her so very much.

Thank you.

Irene