Silver hunting labrador

[ebenezer]

I have seen a few. Extremely poor specimens of the breed. Last one I saw had absolutely no desire to retrieve either.

[yellow dog]

I have seen a few. Extremely poor specimens of the breed. Last one I saw had absolutely no desire to retrieve either.

I had never seen one and was interested if they even behaved like a lab.

[400bigbear]

Bad enough they let them ugly yellows in and worse yet the super ugly chocolates but now silvers too ? Damn lab breed is going to shat . If it isn't black it's just another designer dog .

TD

[ebenezer]

The first one I saw belongs to a couple who come from Texas to summer in our area. It did not like to swim and did not retrieve. But then they did not have it for a hunting dog. It also had a number of health issues, include bad hips. The last one I saw was again a house pet. A sort of look at what I have situation, isn't it unique. The owner had it a test but it was not entered because again it didn't want to pick up feathers.All that I have seen have had very fine coats. Didn't get right down and examine to see if they were double coated but coats were very slick. All had long legs, fairly deep chests, thin tails and were more stream lined than most labs.I have never seen one entered in any event here in Canada but have heard that there are a few running tests in the US. Part of the problem is that when you are breeding for one trait (colour) other desireable traits get lost in the mix.

[PaulR]

First, my wife saw a picture of one, now has it on her desktop and has been after me to look into getting one.
Of course we all know, if it isn't a Chocolate,,,,, it is just a dog.

[ebenezer]

She may have you there because "silvers" have to be registered as chocolate. Be careful be very careful, one chocolate owner to another.

[HoytG3]

Here's a silver with a chocolate. Both are only 8 months old at the time. She (silver) loves to retrieve and swim

[HoytG3]

Forgot picture

[Cass]

I met a woman once who bred them (along with a bunch of other animals but that's another story). I never seen them do anything other than bark in their runs. I do remember half were blocky and fat looking and the others were varying degrees of gangly. Kind of odd looking in my opinion. Most of them were a very light silver.

[HoytG3]

Here she is today. 30 inches at the shoulder and eighty pounds ( little heavy). She's every much a lab as is my chocolate or black that we have.

They claim that it politics that dictates kennel clubs decision on whether there is such a " color" of lab. Many claim it's pressure from the three color breeders that the kennel club won't accept silver as being a "Lab" color.

This argument can go on forever as to whether Silver Labs exist or not.