Im currently looking into getting a labrador pup, and have been seeing that people are breeding yellow, chocolate, and black labs together. If this is done are the pups still considered pure bred? Will they come out 1 color or mixed? Paper eligible still?
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Chocolate, yellow and black labs are not different breeds. They are all Labrador Retrievers. Just different colors. A black lab can have yellow pups and so on.
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Considering all the dogs in animal shelters, I find your concern with your potential dog's breeding offensive. That said, if two thoroughbred labs make a puppy, no matter what any of them look like, that puppy is thoroughbred. The puppy could look like its mom or its dad or a mix of the two or none of the above (it could look like a grandparent, for instance). I don't know about papers.
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May I offer a suggestion to go to the local animal shelter and get yourself and nice used dog. They may not have "papers", but what the heck are you going to do with the papers anyway?
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Any color can be considered pure breed and Labs are the most over breed dog in America. In 2008 New York City shelter alone put down { KILLED } more than 28,000 unwanted dogs. Please just keep a looking and if you decide you have the time and money for a dog please adopt from a shelter. +5
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The only real reasons for worrying about "papers" are: 1) You wish to breed them, yourself. 2) You wish to lord it over your friends who do NOT have purebred dogs 3) You wish to show him. If none of those three are you, then consider going to a shelter. We found a black lab mix there. She mated with another black lab (accidentally... We were told she was fixed, and the other BL came into the neighborbood), and had five puppies. We kept two of them, both black, one with a little white on her chin, short hair, and bright light-blue eyes, reminding us of a big pit-bull, but VERY gentle... And the other has shaggy hair, brown tufts under each ear, and reminds me of a border collie, with the pluming tail. There are a LOT of dogs in the shelter who could use some good loving, and they are a LOT cheaper than papered dogs. That said, the puppies will be purebred labs, but not "black", "chocolate", or "yellow". They may be trying to breed the personality of one to the looks of the other, or vice-versa, OR, they're trying to get a new color.
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