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Forgot to post about my newest edition...

JustineNYC

JustineNYC

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Some of you have seen her....

I foster Labs for the North Carolina Lab rescue, and got this little girl 2 weeks ago. To make a long story short, I got a call from the rescue about how the 3 pups look too "mixed" to adopt out, and they were sending them to a pitbull rescue, cause they look like pitbulls. Originally they were labeled "lab mixes" They look like Labs with pit eats that stick up.

So I went from being her foster mama who gets to pick her new forever home, to not knowing where in the world she'd end up or with who....so I am keeping her...:laugh::laugh::laugh:

She is 15 weeks old..Her name is Daisy

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For those keeping track, I now have a yellow lab, chocolate lab and a black lab with funny ears:bird: Oh boy!
 
awesome.

i have a question since you probably know more about labs than me. i saw one while hiking once and his owner was trailing him also and when he saw me we started to chat and i said what kind of lab is that. he said fox red? is it a true lab like a chocolate or is it a mix?
 
She's so beautiful! Too bad dog DNA kits don't really work...(Just because it'd be fun to know). Will you still be able to foster?
 
pwargcm said:
awesome.

i have a question since you probably know more about labs than me. i saw one while hiking once and his owner was trailing him also and when he saw me we started to chat and i said what kind of lab is that. he said fox red? is it a true lab like a chocolate or is it a mix?
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Labs come in 3 colors, that the AKC recognizes, chocolate, yellow and black, however, the yellow lab can vary from white, to a fox red....so basically what breeders have done is bred selectively with yellow labs and gotten this "fox red" look. It is a yellow lab, it is considered a purebred, and there are very few respectable breeders that have fox reds available.

I have had people tell me they have a white lab, there is no such thing, it is a yellow lab that is white in color, which is fine.

Basically in the world of dogs, it is a no no to breed for color. Dogs should be bred based on eye, hip, elbow clearances, titles, and most importantly temperament.
 
Nanci said:
She's so beautiful! Too bad dog DNA kits don't really work...(Just because it'd be fun to know). Will you still be able to foster?
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There are a few companies who do this. You have your vet take blood and send it to them, its expensive, but a friend of mine had it done on her lab mix....a dog that looks like a yellow lab, came back whippet and poodle! LOL

If there is too much mutt in the dog, they can't pick the breed out.

I'll probably go back to fostering when she is older and I know her personality better. Your own dogs are so important in the process.
 
JustineNYC said:
I have had people tell me they have a white lab, there is no such thing, it is a yellow lab that is white in color, which is fine.
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My neighbor breeds what she calls white chocolate labs. I guess they are white with brown/red noses, or is it black noses- not the color nose of yellow labs.
 
What a doll Justine! I see the pit in her as well, but that just makes her better. JMO

She might have some Colby Pit in her.

How are the others and her doing together?
 
Nanci said:
My neighbor breeds what she calls white chocolate labs. I guess they are white with brown/red noses, or is it black noses- not the color nose of yellow labs.
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Sounds like white dudleys. A dudley is a yellow lab with liver pigment like a chocolate lab would have, not the black pigment a black one would have. Its considered a genetic defect in the yellow labrador.

Then you have the "silver lab" which is a hot topic on the Lab forum. Silver labs were never seen anywhere in the world til the 1950s, they first popped up in a kennel that bred Weimeraners and Labradors, and oddly enough the silver Lab looks just like a Weimeraner.....Out of all the breeders in the world with Labradors, up until recently in Canada, no lab produced Silver except in this country.


All that kinda tweaks me. Dont even get me started on the Labra-pug-adoodles and designer breeds!:angry01:
 
PJ@PJCReptiles said:
What a doll Justine! I see the pit in her as well, but that just makes her better. JMO

She might have some Colby Pit in her.

How are the others and her doing together?
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My older dog is a brat so of course he hates her, My chocolate Lab LOVES her, she lets her sit on her and nibble her feet. Shes really why I kept her.

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Heres the thing....my HOA has a ban on pits so shhhh! My vet was nice enough to write an evaluation saying he believed her to be lab/chow mix, and her official adoptions papers say "Lab mix"
 
Nanci said:
My neighbor breeds what she calls white chocolate labs. I guess they are white with brown/red noses, or is it black noses- not the color nose of yellow labs.
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Nanci, you probably know more about pits, is there a pit that comes in solid black? I know there is a blue pit, we cant figure out how she can be a mix but a solid color?
 
You could post pics of her at pitbull forum and see what people think. I _think_ there are pits in every color. elrojo from here is a member there, too.
 
thanks for that info justine. i really liked their look, it was cool. but i like chocolates the most. mmmmm, chocolate.

Nanci said:
Yeah, I hate all those designer mixes, too. Really hate. Dogs are purebred for a reason.
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i do too. i liked the fox red though, and the guy you could tell wasnt like oh i have a red lab. he had him trained for retrieving birds really well, and the dog was very obedient. what i like to see from a dog owner was he knew his dog and his dog knew him. it was awesome to meet him that day.
 
pwargcm said:
thanks for that info justine. i really liked their look, it was cool. but i like chocolates the most. mmmmm, chocolate.



i do too. i liked the fox red though, and the guy you could tell wasnt like oh i have a red lab. he had him trained for retrieving birds really well, and the dog was very obedient. what i like to see from a dog owner was he knew his dog and his dog knew him. it was awesome to meet him that day.
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Your welcome. There is also something called 'pointing labs' My neighbor has one, that he hunts with, its not an official thing, and Labs are not considered pointers, just retrievers, but its a line apparently.

As long as people breeding are doing proper health clearances, and not selling a fox red for 4,000$ when a regular lab with health clearances is $1,000.

One of my neighbors had his 2 labs have a litter and they did no testing on the labs, and turns out mommy and daddy have horrible hips, the offspring is not even 2 and cant go up stairs. Thats 9 sold off puppies that will have hip dysplasia and require a $3500 surgery to correct it.
 
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