BR549
Twelve Pointer
Anyone have thoughts / suggestions on Silver Labs? Specifically their temperament and energy level. Always had yellows and got a bug for a silver.
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Silver Labs are designer dogs crossed with Weimaramars. Its not a true Lab.
Silver labs are actually chocolate with a diluted color gene. Just like the fox red coloration is considered a yellow lab. There has never been a genetic link with Weimariners ever found. They are not cross bread to get this coloration nor are they more likely to hip problem than any other lab.
Silver labs are actually chocolate with a diluted color gene. Just like the fox red coloration is considered a yellow lab. There has never been a genetic link with Weimariners ever found. They are not cross bread to get this coloration nor are they more likely to hip problem than any other lab.
A lot of misinformation. American labs have 3 colors. Black, yellow, and chocolate. True 100% labs. Yellow and chocolate are just recessive genes, much like your eye color. labs of British origin have black, yellow, and red. Yellow and red are recessive. There is not such thing as a silver Labrador. There are silver colored dogs that look like labs. They're called mutts.
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I have trained a few silver labs, none of thm had much desire to retrieve and were sent home due to not being able to complete our gun dog program (dogs just didnt want to pick up a bird bad enough). it happens on occassion with blacks, yellows and chocolates as well, but we are batting 1.000 with washing out silver dogs.
Best retriever I ever have had never broke stride. Playing at the house or retrieving dead birds....he did it at his pace. He was just never a dog to get in a hurry. Only one i have ever seen like that.I was at a hunt test this spring and trainer was running one in the Junior test. Somebody said, "good looking silver dog" and he was like "oh no oh no, this ain't a silver, it's a charcoal"........he bout got laughed off the line. Dog completed the test but it literally walked to the land marks and just casually swam to the marks on the water tests. You could tell it was more like the dog had no desire to retrieve but instead had been trained to retrieve..........
I've been around a few "silvers". The one I was around the longest was one of the smartest but yet dumbest dog I have ever been around....It was like she couldn't get out of her on way.
Never heard of a silver until last week and now this - anyway someone showed me a pic puppy - silver looking lab, (mutt, dog, canine) with really cool blue eyes. He may not retrieve birds but he will pick up the ladies....