It all started in 1996 when we lived in Auburn Alabama when Patch, a Dalmatian and Lab mix, came into our lives. He was all black with the exception of a black dot in a patch of white on his foot and a black dot in the middle of his white patch on his chest.  From then on the Converse family was hooked on Labs.  We have had Labs throughout the years with having two sets of puppies through our White Lab Izzy with our Black Lab Remington. Both of these dogs are AKC pedigree but the paperwork was never applied for.

That brings us to the Summer of 2016! Gina and Bryan were not ready to be “empty nesters” in regard to dogs after the passing of our spaniel, Lady, of 12 years in August 2016. Remington and his son, Rugar, were living with our son, Jamey, in Auburn, Alabama, and Izzy, is living with our daughter, Jodi and son-in-law Connor in Clarksville, Ohio.  At first, we were going to get a single Lab, so in August 2016 Dixie became a part of our family.  On our way home from getting Dixie from a farm in Adams County, Ohio the decision was made to get another pup and Converse Premium Labs was born. We decided to get another female to breed both girls with our son Josh’s AKC registered Chocolate Lab, Hank. 

The first weekend of September 2016 our second black, female, from Indianapolis, IN Darla became a Converse. The Summer of 2018 we traveled to Shelbyville, KY and Ginger became a Converse and this beautiful "Yellow" was welcomed into our crew.  In April of 2020 CPL took a huge step forward as we moved from our home of 15+ years in Maineville, Ohio when we purchased a small 10+ acre farm 5 miles South of Wilmington, Ohio.  In July of 2020 CPL expanded with two new males Boomer from Bardstown, KY and Butch who is from the Fort Wayne, IN area was added.  Josie, came from northen  Atlanta, GA  became a CPL family member the following  September. With Dixie being "retired" the Summer of 2020 we decide to keep a black pup from Ginger's Spring 2021 litter and Shelby became a Converse.  Shay who is the daughter of Darla and Boomer was born in November of 2021 and made our 5 female. August 2022 will welcome the next addition to the Converse Premium Lab family with the addition of Yuki! Yuki is a "snow white" female, from the Blacksburg, VA area will bring an incredible dimension to our puppy options.

With the opportunity for the expansion of the CPL business we built the "Dog Room" where there are whelping/kennels and sleeping kennels for the CPL family of dogs that is housed inside our detached garage/barn. The Summer of 2021 CPL began the project of converting our barn into the Red Barn Kennels boarding facility with the completion of Phase 1 at the end of July. August 1, 2021 Red Barn Kennel opened for business. Phase 2 of the RBK will begin during the Winter of 2022 with a reception area, a training area, additional boarding kennels and an office for CPL and RBK. This phase became operational the end of May 2022. RBK can now adequately provide safe, loving and quality care for 15 dogs at a time. Please click HERE for additional information regarding CPL's Red Barn Kennel. (An updated video tour is coming soon!)

At CPL we have created our breeding service with the "normal" person/family in mind who wants a great family dog to love with all the characteristics and benefits of dogs that are a said to be a “cut above.” CPL has been blessed to provide people with all types of dogs per our client's interest. We have had clients who have gotten dogs from us that were to be used for therapy dogs of all types...diabetic sensing, PTSD, Autistic "friend" dogs, gun dogs...just to name a few.

Honestly, in the world of the “registered” dogs it can be intimidating as well a very snobbish in the “name of the breed.” CPL will never do anything to discredit the Labrador breed, yet also realizes that most people want a life-long companion that will not take a lifetime to pay off. You will find that our puppies go to their new families with all the benefits any "professional" breeder but with less stressful, in both experience and expense. This philosophy makes our dogs affordable and available to most who desire to have a quality breed dog. 









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It has BLOWN US AWAY that the majority of our puppies have been pre-sold prior to their birth! We are very blessed and honored that so many people believe in us and trust us with providing them with the best quality, healthy, cared for and loved puppies to bring into their families!

Since beginning CPL in 2016 we are thankful and very blessed that as a result of our family’s reputation and with the friends who know us and know how we have attempted to live our lives, we have established the trust of people and families throughout the country that we have been able to share the love we have with this wonderful breed of dogs that we love so deeply. We have been excited that the CPL family has spread to not only the Greater Cincinnati/Dayton and Southern Ohio area but we have been wonderfully blessed by having our dogs enhance the lives of families in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi , Louisiana, West Virginia, Indiana and Las Vegas, Nevada!