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They don't look like wiemeraners :rolleyes: Obviously if your brother's fiancee is a "good breeder", and knows what labs actually look like (let's hope a breeder of labs for 25 years would know what the heck one looks like) she should realize that they look VERY different. You know, people used to be as skeptical about chocolate labs, and said that they were lab chesapeake crosses.
This website http://www.labbies.com/genetics2.htm#Silver clearly states this :
"When one traces the pedigrees of some silver Labs, one finds a history of other color oddities occurring in some related bloodlines to the silver Labs. Occurrences of "black-casting" in chocolates, muted chocolate coloration ("card-board box" coloring), as well as the occasional occurrence of black puppies being whelped from two chocolate parents suggests that these "chocolates" were probably not chocolate at all but rather E+ yellows. As such, it is conceivable that the Agouti alleles could produce an intense red pigment resulting in deep red (interpreted as chocolate especially in the absence of "saddling" modifiers) or diluted, muted red (card board box color) due to further modification by the alleles of the C locus). In black Labs, an ayayEE+ geneotype could produce a muted black color (because of the presence of both receptor types) especially if the alleles at the C locus were cch, thus resulting in a deep charcoal, silvery coat appearance. This suggests a possible role of E+ for the silver coloration as well as for a multitude of other coat color variants that occasionally occur in the breed."
Colour mutations are not rare in the dog world. And niether is a colour long-forgotten appearing in a line. It's what happened with white german shepherds. White shepherds started appearing in litters, and when the lines were traced back to old Germany, they found after close examination, that a few white dogs WERE used in the making of the german shepherd dog breed. Also, although not common, golden retrievers have been known to have black blotches covering the body, due to the black dogs used in making the golden retriever breed.
Looks like it's time to bring out the old punnet squares :p
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look at this site guys :)
http://www.billcrabtreesilverlabs.com/
These people breed all colours of labs, even silver. They get mostly silver pups, and all of the parents are yellow chocolate and black....you would think they'd get a little more of other colours lol. Beautiful puppies, take a look!
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I have heard that the labs are alot more dominant that the golden retriever..they are like family though..the goldens are supposedly more gentle natured, but I love them both..I had a chocolate lab for 13 years, and he was the sweetest dog I knew..he never growled at anyone ever,,he loved people, sometimes almost too much...I miss him still to this day :(
http://www.growthspurts.com/drivee/i...6106281251.jpg
Rusty is the chocolate lab in here.
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I don't believe that Labs are more dominant than Goldens. I think they're both VERY VERY similar in temperament. I think they're so similar that in order to pick one or the other, you'd have to meet the individual puppies (or dogs) and make your decision on that, not the breed.
Labs do seem more energetic. I actually don't think you can classify any breed as dominant, since thats more of an individual characteristic.
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Hmm...I wonder where Lute went?!?!? I have more information/pictures if you would like some more! :) :D
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Labradors are absolutely the best. My first dog was a labrador - my parents got him when I was just a kid. Loved him with all my heart - such a gentle and smart dog.
