Say No To Silver Labs

[TORNER RETRIEVERS]

for a color to be natural, it would have to appear at least in the 25% of the general population.

A colour can't appear that often when only 3 colours are line bred by show breeders. If you put all colours of labs together and let them breed without human interference for enough time to overcome many years of line breeding you'd come across a pertenent palette of natural colouring. Of course this is never going to happen, nor should it. I'm not saying that these colors will be 25% of the population, I'm just saying they would come along and still be purebred and still be labradors.

well if we let every breed to reproduce without control and without following the breed standard....we wouldn't have any breed at all!!!

they certainly wouldn't still be labradors. a brindle, B&T, silver, blue, etc.. would be a dog which's parents are labradors. for a dog to be considered as a lab, it has to fit to the breed standard. i don't see why this is so hard to understand.

it seems like you don't understand the relation breeder-standard. you keep saying that breeders are the ones that don't like or don't accept this or that color. it's not the breeders. it's the breed standard. i've seen breeders go through hell because they had their hopes up for that planned litter in which there's a B&T or a brindle, which by the way, turns out to be show quality except for the color. so they have to neuter it and give it to a good home. i've seen them let out a tear or two during this events. it's heart breaking, but that's not the point. the point is that some people, a 100 yeras ago (moreless) created a breed to perform and look one specific way. they parent club has published a specific standard and it has to be followed, to preserve the type, soundness and skills of the labrador.