timsdat
Posted : 4/24/2007 8:30:24 PM
The only way a Labrador could be Silver is if it was mixed with a Weim, therefore, being a Lab/Weim mix.
Not so or according to the links that you posted.
from [link
http://www.blueknightlabs.com/articles/silver/silver.html]http://www.blueknightlabs.com/articles/silver/silver.html[/link]
As I said, there have been accusations that these "rare" silver Labradors are actually a cross between a Labrador and a Weimaraner. I will let you be the judge, as there is no evidence at this time, one way or the other.
from [link
http://www.labbies.com/silver.htm]http://www.labbies.com/silver.htm[/link]
The AKC Stand on Registration of Silver Labradors:
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Response of Jack Norton of the AKC on 1/24/00 giving AKC official position on the issue of Silver Labs.
The registry of the American Kennel Club is based on parentage and not the coat color of a member of any breed.
In 1987 the AKC, in corporation with the Labrador Retriever Club of America, conducted an inquiry into the breeding of litters that contained members that were registered as silver. An AKC representative was sent to observe these dogs. The report and color photographs of these dogs were reviewed by AKC staff and representatives of the Labrador Retriever Club of America. Both Parties were satisfied that there was no reason to doubt that the dogs were purebred Labrador Retrievers, however they felt that the dogs were incorrectly registered as silver. Since the breed standard at the time described chocolate as ranging in shade form sedge to chocolate, it was felt that the dogs could more accurately be described as chocolate rather than silver. This remains the current policy of the American Kennel Club.
Jack Norton
Special Services Dept
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Some Falsehoods Regarding the Silver Coloration in Labs
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There is no such thing as a silver Labrador.[/blockquote]
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False. This is really more an argument based on semantics and upon which most conflicts regarding the silver color in the breed are based. Silver Labs do exist here and now, however, history records of the Labrador breed strongly support the conclusion that the silver color was introduced sometime in the mid-history (between the 1940s - 1950s) of the Labrador breed (
see below for discussion of origins). For this and other reasons, the trait is not considered as being representative of the breed.
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