labradors???

[GoldenRetrLuver]

lol, thanx wow, its beautiful! Never seen them before...

[wolfsoul]

pssst....move over to "name that breed." LOL

[Cookiebaker]

We have a one year old Yellow Lab Mix, and though I may be a bit prejudiced he is the most wonderful dog. He is very alert, and tells me if anybody comes in the driveway, or if anything's not quite right. Though he has his nawtee moments, he's playful and yet gentle. He gets along very well with our cat and our bunny, and is already starting to settle down. Malone is fairly easy to train (a bit stubborn at times) but he tries very hard to please us.

I think with ANY breed you are going to have those that haven't been trained properly, and from there you have behavioural problems. I would definitely NOT call the lab breed territorial or aggressive. Sure you have some individuals that display non-characteristic behaviour but you will find this ANYWHERE. Your thinking is like saying that all pitbulls are "fighters" or "bad". When you truly educate yourself, you will find that that is just not true.

Please don't judge a breed when you don't know what you are talking about.

[Desert Arabian]

Originally posted by GoldenRetrLuver
Silver labs are not really a breed...they are do to "cross breeding"

No, they are purebreds. They are not cross-bred!!! They are chocolate labradors, in a diluted color!! Just like there are yellow labs which are so light they are white, and some are so dark they are almost brown...but they are still registered under yellow Labradors- not in seperate color categories.

If you went to that website I advised you to take a look at, and looked at a picture of their dogs, you would have noticed a chocolate Labrador they use to get their silver labradors from.


They are not a different breed.....

Cross breeding is when you take two different breeds and breed them i.e. a Saint Bernard and Springer Spaniel. Silver Labradors ARE NOT crossbred!!!!!!

"CCK's original line of Silver Labs evolved as the product of recessive gene combination from chocolate Labs. Subsequent breedings have proven the Silver color to be a replicable genetic trait with Silver/Silver breedings producing litters of all Silver pups."
-CristCulo Kennels

GoldenRetrLuvr and Cloverfdx: READ THIS WEBPAGE!!!!!!!
Silver Labradors

[Desert Arabian]

Originally posted by Cookiebaker
Please don't judge a breed when you don't know what you are talking about.

B-I-N-G-O
J-A-C-K-P-O-T
D-I-T-T-O
E-X-A-C-T-L-Y

can't say it any better....

[GoldenRetrLuver]

YLL, I said I got the "cross breeding" info of a silver lab site. I said I was sorry.

[Desert Arabian]

Originally posted by GoldenRetrLuver
YLL, I said I got the "cross breeding" info of a silver lab site. I said I was sorry.

That's why you shouldn't believe the first site you read... Do further research and view many websites...

It's ok...

[GoldenRetrLuver]

ok

[wolf_Q]

You can't judge an entire breed of dog by few experiences...

There were 3 labs in the basic obedience class I took. One was a complete spaz hyper dog, one was very calm, intelligent, and well-behaved, and the other was a bit of a mix between. None were aggressive.

Like Aly said, you could have dogs from the same parents raised in a different environment and act completely different. This is the same with any breed.

Labs are popular, and unfortunately they are bred entirely too much. I swear if you look in the newspaper around here at least half the ads are for lab puppies. Overbreeding leads to dogs not bred for temperament, health, etc. and ends up creating some individuals with traits that are not desirable, and therefore, not a good representation of the breed. Just because a dog looks like a lab does not mean the dog has the personality a lab should have.

[shais_mom]

Silver Labs are GORGEOUS! I had never seen one before. Tho they can be easily mistaken for Weimereiners I think.

[cloverfdx]

The silver coloration comes into play when the D gene is turned on - which does not happen in labradors. If the D gene is dd then it will "dilute" the coloration if the B gene is bb in labradors. In other breeds the dilute combo (dd) can make a Bb or BB dog gray or "blue". A dog like the doberman has this dilute gene pattern and therefore "blue" dobies can arise from a black doberman that has this dilute combination. Other breeds like Great Danes, Chow Chows, and German Shepherds can be diluted. Some breeds accept the color and others do not.

The breeders of silver labs say that it is not the work of the D gene but of the B gene working in conjunction with the C gene which I don't think is true in Labradors - (C for "concentration" can cause fox reds in our breed when combined with ee and it can influence the concentration of black or chocolate expression as well - goes into why some chocolates are darker than others).



in other words lab x wienmeraner (sp?)

seeing friends who breed labs on sunday at dog club and will ask there opinion on this very annoying subject (not that there is anything to ask) there are three colourings of the breed yellow, black, chocolate

[Desert Arabian]

Originally posted by cloverfdx
The silver coloration comes into play when the D gene is turned on - which does not happen in labradors. If the D gene is dd then it will "dilute" the coloration if the B gene is bb in labradors. In other breeds the dilute combo (dd) can make a Bb or BB dog gray or "blue". A dog like the doberman has this dilute gene pattern and therefore "blue" dobies can arise from a black doberman that has this dilute combination. Other breeds like Great Danes, Chow Chows, and German Shepherds can be diluted. Some breeds accept the color and others do not.

The breeders of silver labs say that it is not the work of the D gene but of the B gene working in conjunction with the C gene which I don't think is true in Labradors - (C for "concentration" can cause fox reds in our breed when combined with ee and it can influence the concentration of black or chocolate expression as well - goes into why some chocolates are darker than others).

Nice plagerism! What you did is illegal in the United States of America...not sure about Australia. You took credit for someone elses work, with out giving the author credit or noting the source you got your information from.

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If it is so annoying, why don't you stop "arguing" about silver Labs, and leave this thread. No one is forcing you to post here...

I'm not even going to bother fighting for a useless cause, as long as I know the truth and the facts, I'll be happy, and when I get my Labradors I know they will be well looked after.

[Desert Arabian]

Oh yes, I forgot to include the link for the website Cloverfdx's post was plagerised from:

My HTML Code is off for some reason, so I have to post the link the long way...http://www.woodhavenlabs.com/silverlabs.html

[cloverfdx]

ok calling this crap quits, you know i dont really care what you people think, go ahead and keep on beliving you can get pure bred "silver" labradors, hell why your at it go and get yourself a pure "labradoodle" "groodle" "maltipoo"

LABRADORS DO NOT CARRY THE DILUTE GENE, THAT IS NEEDED TO CREATE THE SILVER/ BLUE COLOURING ~Grrrr~


and another thing i actualy like labs not all but a few (cameron the black boy )


KOBE "BEAR" (lovely choc boy)

as for the breed specific legislations, they have nothing to do with labradors as people think they are the most wonderfull family dogs around, and would never think of banning them. they are only after those killer "pitt bulls" (sarcasm)

and yes i strongly belive in "there are no bad dogs, just bad owners"

~grumbles~ i had it with this crap now

finished

[lovemyshiba]

I had never seen a silver lab until I checked out those sites--beautiful!!!