Hollow Wood Kennels is owned and operated by Adam and Alecia Keith. Located in the foothills of Lookout Mountain in Flintstone, GA. Hollow Wood Kennels offer retriever training, obedience training, training classes, breeding, and boarding.

They have three Labs of their own and are continuously training a host of different retrievers. With the birth of their first child Luke, they decided that while Adam ran his family’s hardware businesses, Alecia would retire early after two years of teaching 1st graders and stay home to be a mom. They decided to build a kennel for training and boarding dogs. Today, they are expanding due to the success of the business and have even developed the 30 acres track into training grounds complete with a new training pond.  On October 12, 2010 their second child was born.  Ella is their first daughter.

Adam began working with retrievers in 2001 after meeting Roddy Reynolds, a well respected and successful trainer in the Chattanooga area. He bought a little black lab named Daisy and began spending all his free time around Roddy in hopes of learning all he could. Adam later recruited Roddy and a few buddies and formed the Dixieland Hunting Retriever Club in Chattanooga, TN.  He now trains up to four client dogs per month and runs the family’s two ACE Hardware stores.  

If not for Alecia’s father, Anthony Arp, the kennel would have never happened. Anthony devoted every evening and even Saturdays for 8 straight months to building the 1,200 sq ft facility. He and Adam built everything themselves from the ground up.  Worst of all, he had to endure Adam’s endless mind changing of how the they should go about building it!  

Many, many, many, many, thanks go to Anthony for all his help!