<b><center>Response of Robert Young of AKC on 3/27/00 giving AKC official position on the issue of Silver Labs.</center></b><br /><br /><center><b>Consensus at the "Silver Lab" meeting held on July 14, 1997.</b></center><br /><br /><center><i>1) The foundation for the AKC registry is based on parentage and not color.<br />2) We should register all Lab pups coming from purebred AKC registered Labs.<br />3) We should not register Labs as "Silver."<br />4) After a review of pictures, the file and history of this issue which goes back to 1987, we feel the most appropriate color for registration is Chocolate.<br />5) We will entertain complaints of impure breedings on an individual basis, but complaints should be based on more than color.<br /><br />In 1987 we conducted an inquiry into the breeding of the litters that contained the dogs that were registered as silver and one of our representatives was sent to observe several of the dogs that had been registered as silver. Color photographs of these dogs were forwarded to the office of the American Kennel Club where the staff of the AKC and the representatives of the Labrador Retriever Club of America examined them. Both parties were satisfied that there was no reason to doubt that the dogs were purebred Labrador Retrievers, however both parties felt that the dogs were incorrectly registered as silver. Since the breed standard describes chocolate as ranging in shade from Sedge to chocolate, it was felt that the dogs could more accurately be described as chocolate than as silver.</i></center>

*Is basicly BEGGING for my pretty Chocolate Lab to be added!!!* I think that this could be a real possibility, but if your concerned for the coat patterns you've seen the many different colors but lots of labs have mixes of tiny splotches of white or other colors and some have little ticks, or different shading and if your seeing this as creative as I am, it would be a WONDERFUL addition to the Ala family =]

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Tilted they do not recognize Silver as a color for the Labrador Retreiver and it is not allowed to be shown.<br />http://www.akc.org/breeds/labrador_retriever/color_markings.cfm<br /> It is very easy to lie about the parents of a dog and register them as a purebred.<br /> That is how the American Bully's are registered as American Pit Bull Terriers, they could not be shown as them because they don't fit the standard. But they can be registered as them if you say the parents were two registered dogs.

Silver Labs are accepted in AKC. They are pure-breed labs. No wiems in them.

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What test did she use, I have never heard of a DNA test that had APBT on their breed list. Because the DNA of the breed is so mixed DNA tests do not pick them up.<br /> If you were to use one on a purebred APBT, and it came out somewhat accurate it would stake terrier and bulldog heritage.

From what I've heard there's a DNA test that tests what breeds a dogs genes are made up of. Yes its not 100% reliable but it would be something. A friend had it done for a dog she found tied to her bumper and it came back all APBT and he looks it.