Welcome to Thunderstruck Retrievers located in West Central Minnesota
Thunderstruck Retrievers is located near Alexandria, Minnesota on 120 acres of training ponds and cover. We specialize in raising, competing, and breeding Golden Retrievers who are multi-purpose: strong field trial and hunt test competitors with friendly, loving attitudes that can serve as hunting companions and pets. We compete in both AKC field trials and hunts tests and are members of the Golden Retriever Club of America and Vikingland Retriever Club.
If you are eager to have a working dog that also will be a great companion in your home, please contact us. We breed for competitive homes that will give our puppies a job to do as they grow, but our litters will also be appropriate for hunting companions, search and rescue, obedience, agility, therapy, dock diving, and as pets. Our goal is to send a puppy to your home that is well socialized, eager to learn, inquisitive, and full of desire. If you are considering a current litter or one in the future, please contact us.
Thanks, Todd and Benita Otterness
Specializing in Competitive and Hunting Retrievers
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Check out the YouTube video below about Thunderstruck Retrievers. This was a TV pilot that was filmed and edited by Tom Davis of Upstate Canine Academy. It includes a lot of information about our kennel and the Golden Retriever as a working dog!! Enjoy!!
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Thunderstruck Retrievers are not only hunters and pets!!
THUNDERSTRUCK DOGS AT WORK
Mayhem does SAR work specializing in human remains at emergency sites.
Riggs (Carson Wentz) and Denver (Zach Wentz) are part of Wentz Bros Outdoors.
Justice joins the Corpus Christi Police Department
as a service dog.
Stroker becomes Bush’s Baked Beans dog “Duke”
AGCH MACH6 Thunderstruck Voyager Push’N The Limits MH MXG2 PDG MJG2 PJS MFB2 TQX T2B9 ADHF “Yeager” owned by Katherine Emge earns a National Agility Title. Emge also owns” “Vesta” AGCH MACH13 Thunderstruck Summer Skies At Voyager SH MXS3 PDS MJB4 PJS MFC2 TQX T2B10 ADHF, a Thunderstruck puppy she handled to National Agility Titles.
Deacon is trained as a bed bug detection dog. This is a video of him searching a hotel room. He found the 5 bed bug eggs in the room. What a nose!
Deacon’s owner Kim Newman also has Cowboy, a Thunderstruck puppy she trained to track scat from endangered long-tailed weasels in Florida to aid species preservation.
Thunderstruck Foundation Dogs Earn National Recognition
Otter and Todd win the Amateur at the Sioux Valley Field Trial giving Otter an All-Breed win!!
Forman and Otter with their Golden Retriever Club of America National Specialty Open Ribbons and Trophies!! (First time ever a married couple won the Specialty back to back years and with two different dogs, no less!)
Forman and Todd win the 2016 GRCA National Specialty Open!
Otter and Benita win the Open at the 2015 GRCA National Specialty and Otter qualifies for National Retriever Championship in Corning, CA. Only 2 Goldens qualifed for the National Retriever Championship from 2014-2015!
Otter finishes the 5th series of Nationals in Corning, CA
