Say No To Silver Labs

[.sarah]

DNA testing has been done to prove they are pure bred.

That is not true. DNA testing cannot prove breed. If they were cross-bred with Weim in most cases it was too far back to prove the breed (the parents would be dead, all DNA testing can do is prove the parents).

They've also studied the genetic makeup and have ruled out that Wemenier are cross bred in them. AKC accepts them as chocolate labs.

Not saying you're wrong, but where did you read this? I have seen everything say the exact opposite. As far as I know they are *still* studying to try to prove or disprove the Wiem is in them. AKC accepts them as Chocolate Labs because silver is not an approved color and breeders say that they are dilute chocolate. AKC does not look at the puppies that are registered, therefor you could easily pass a silver as chocolate on registration papers, the same way I could have marked Nova as a black or chocolate -- they'd have never known. If you look in the breed standard, chocolate is described as "light to dark chocolate", not "dilute chocolate" (silver).

these ones look very much lab to me
http://www.silverlabs.com/gallery.htm

I'm not sure how familiar you are with Labs. I am very familiar though I wouldn't call myself an expert (by no means could I judge them in conformation!) but those dogs definetly don't look like Labs to me. To an untrained eye, yes, I can see where they would look like a Lab. But they look very unproportional in head to body ratio, and their heads just ... aren't right. They still look Weim-ish to me, and that's really the only way I can explain it.

emilysgk, I agree with what you said completely!