Have you ever seen a black and white labrador?
By jugsjugs
@jugsjugs (12967)
11 responses
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
21 Oct 09
I'm no genetic scientist, but I think if both parents are purebreds whose breed is a solid color and never a pattern, you're still going to get a solid color.
If there is a mixture of something else in the background of one/both parents, then you're likely to get any one of several coat patterns.
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@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
21 Oct 09
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
21 Oct 09
hi ldyjarhead wow have not s een you since my son and I got all messed up with this horrid economy. glad to see you back here, i was also gone for almost 11 months.now got my computer and monitor so evenin this retirement center I can again mylot. you are right ,you have purebreds they will be a solid color unless someone is back there aways to throw off things.
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@GardenGerty (169448)
• United States
21 Oct 09
I would think that you would have to have some animal with a spotted skin pattern to breed in to get that combination, and then it would not be a pure Lab.
@BarBaraPrz (51819)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
21 Oct 09
I haven't seen a black and white, either, though I have seen a golden that was almost white.
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@doormouse (4599)
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21 Oct 09
no i haven't seen a black and white lab,but how cool would that be to see one though,or a blue lab would be nice
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@drannhh (15219)
• United States
21 Oct 09
Centuries ago they had a breed of labrador with mixed colors called "St. John's Water Dog" but today white on black is considered a genetic "defect" in purebred labs, and would disqualify them from being shown. The do exist, however, and are lovely dogs to have a friends and pets. I don't know why people are so snooty about breed in such animals. My favorite black and white dogs are dalmations. They are so very expressive.
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
21 Oct 09
hi jugsjugs nope I do not think I have ever seen anything'but a black lab but I am sure they are always experimenting on the
different breeds. a black and white lab would be something
unique to see for sure.
@minx267 (15526)
• Hartford, Connecticut
22 Oct 09
Labradors come only in solid colors. The colors are Yellow, Black or Chocolate (brown). Depending on each individual dogs genes you can breed 2 Yellow Labradors together and have puppies of all 3 colors in the litter. If one of those yellow Dogs had a black parent and the other yellow dog had a Chocolate parent all 3 may be born in the next generation litter. If a dog has white on it and someone tells you it is a Labrador, it is is not a purebred Lab.
@jazzsue58 (2666)
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22 Oct 09
I guess the only way, as you say, to get piebald colours would be to crossbreed. Lab-spaniel or lab-collie crosses are nice looking dogs with variated colouring, but they're "mongrels."
Then again, there's now a breed called the "labradoodle" that's a lab-poodle cross, and they go for hundreds!
@Bad_Daddy55 (497)
• Canada
25 Oct 09
To have a multi- colored Lab would be very rare. The most u might get to see is a small white patch on the chest area. A lab that has a larger whire area isn't used for breeding, this is keeping with the breed code that has been for years in the breed itself. When there is a rarity in the breed good breeders keep away from this to keep the lines strong and to AKC, CKC,EKC and other kennel club regulations..
@happy6162 (3001)
• United States
23 Oct 09
I have only seen black labrodors. I have never seen a black and white one. Do you have a black and white labrador?
