General Listing Information
| Breed: | Dog > Labrador Retriever |
| Breeder: | Alayne Hartuniewicz |
| Location: | Elkton, VA |
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, Sep 16,2009 |
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Outstanding English litter of AKC chocolate puppies due around September 20th! These puppies will be very impressive looking with large heads and big otter tails. Both parents are great house dogs with super gentle laid back personallities. I can't say enough about them as companions. The puppies will be smaller in stature, but very well built and should also have plenty of retrieving drive! The sire is obtaining his Championship. He is sired by the famous Eng import - Ch Boothgate's Chief Producer. The dam has specialty class placements and has a Master Hunting title. She is also sired by a famous dog, Hampshire's Calif Dreaming! We have the best health, rearing and guarantee programs we have seen and all of our puppies are born and raised in our home with love and care. We also test each puppy for personallity, energy level, trainability, intelligence, retrieving desire and conformation. This is a STUNNING litter! Personal Deliery and airline shipping avialable. Puppy pictured was from her last litter to sires half brother. Please contact us for more information. www.coldwaterlab.com
The Labrador Retriever coat colors are black, yellow and chocolate. Any other color or a combination of colors is a disqualification. A small white spot on the chest is permissible, but not desirable. White hairs from aging or scarring are not to be misinterpreted as brindling. Black--Blacks are all black. A black with brindle markings or a black with tan markings is a disqualification. Yellow--Yellows may range in color from fox-red to light cream, with variations in shading on the ears, back, and underparts of the dog. Chocolate--Chocolates can vary in shade from light to dark chocolate. Chocolate with brindle or tan markings is a disqualification.
Although kennel clubs and registries recognize the Labrador in variations of only three colors—black, yellow, and chocolate—some breeders sell light-colored yellow Labrador puppies as a "white" labrador, the dark yellow Labrador puppies as "fox red," or chocolates possessing the dilution factor as "silver Labradors". The "silver" color is nonstandard and would disqualify them as show dogs. Although "silver" labs are currently eligible for AKC registration as chocolate labradors, there remains some debate as to the purity of "silver" labs. The Labrador Retriever Club (parent club to the Labrador Retriever Club in the US) has declared that the "silver" labrador is not a purebred, but rather a creative hybrid. It is their belief, as well as the belief of many breeders, that the "silver" labrador is a result of cross-breeding chocolate labradors with the weimaraner. Whether this breeding was intentional or unintentional is unknown. Kennels often charge greater fees for "silver" labradors, despite their disqualifying color and the LRC's condemnation of the non-standard labrador genetic trait. Another disqualifying factor for chocolate labs (as "silver" is technically classified as chocolate) is any diviation from a hazel or brown eye color. Many "silver" labradors have blue eyes, just like the weimaraner and unlike any other variety of standard labrador. It should be noted that all "silver" labradors are a result of initial interbreeding (father to daughter, brother to sister, mother to son, etc.) to maintain their color and recessive gene traits. The earliest advertisements for "blue" or "gray" labradors date back to the 1950s in the western United States. No "silver" labradors have been known to have been naturally produced outside the United States from native chocolate labrador stock. The US-based kennel where "silver" labradors first appeared also bred weimaraners. Despite the claims made by some unscrupulous "silver" labrador breeders, there is currently no genetic test to prove or disprove that "silver" labradors are purebred.
