Neither of the dogs are purebred then. Mating two purebred Labs will not result in a silver dog or a dog with black and tan coloration. If you bought your dog and was told it was a purebred, you have been lied to.

Gio answered on 7/10/08. Helpful? / 2

Yes your dogs ARE PUREBRED I have seen these colors some people do not think pure labs cannot be silver just because a few people who wanted to make a quick dollar crossed a weim and a lab and called them silver labs.Silver labs are purbred dogs i have seen pics of black and tan labs and brindle labs and the parents were pure bred brown and yellow labs.If no body believe me then take a look at this.Many people say silver dogs are crossed with the weim which can be true in SOME cases but there are silver labs that are purebred dogs and some have said it is a different shade of brown.
The AKC does allow silver Labradors to be registered, but not as silver. Instead, they're considered a variation on the well recognized chocolate lab. That's because the most likely genetic combination for these animals is a chocolate Labrador with a dilute gene that causes the silvering of the coat. Blue labs are really black Labradors with a dilute gene that causes their coat to be bluish grey.
DNA testing and mapping of silver labs was done during the close of the Twentieth Century and meticulous investigation of each silver labs ancestry was conducted by investigators from AKC. All conclusions were the same, i.e. "there was no reason to doubt that the dogs were purebred Labrador Retrievers." Every K-9 in its genes had complete history of its ancestors going all the way back to wolves.

Everything written about the silver labs is based upon speculation. One statement that is commonly made is that there had to have been a Weimeraner introduced into the bloodlines to produce the silver color. This statement has been proven false. UC Berkley studied the genetic makeup of the silver lab against that of the Weimeraner, Researchers concluded that it was not the same.

So yes, Silver labs are pure bred Labrador Retrievers and their ancestry is beyond reproach.




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Chewy answered on 2/21/11. Helpful? / 0