Chocolate Lab Puppies

Introduction

You must have heard of the word “Chocolate Lab Puppies” and keep wondering what it’s all about. Well, this article is going to tell you all you need to know about chocolate lab puppies, facts, features, and fun.

For the benefit of those who do not know, Chocolate Lab Puppies are simply Labrador Retriever puppies of a specific color like the chocolate color.

All through the historical lay down of the breeds of dogs, a chocolate Labrador rarely comes out during birth in litters of Labrador puppies. Reason is still not known yet by Vet/animal Doctors.

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Some years back, puppies with this weird and strange colour were normally culled at birth. This was because people were used to black coloured Labs. Black Labs were adored, and black was the only colour considered respectable for a Labrador!

Now that we’ve known what Chocolate Lab Puppies are, let’s talk about some important facts about them.

Where Do Chocolate Labs Come From?

You’ll find out where chocolate Labs came from.

The journey to discovering chocolate lab puppies started from finding a gorgeous brown puppy to caring for your elderly chocolate Lab.

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All Labradors are beautiful, of course, but brown Labradors are what often held a special place in people’s heart in the last century before the birth of chocolate Labs.

Labrador Retrievers were recognised by the UK Kennel Club in 1903 and by the AKC in 1917.  But they had been around for some years before that.

The Labrador breed was developed mainly by a couple of English aristocrats in the 1800s, from dogs they had imported from North America.  You can read more about this chunk of history here: The history of the Labrador Retriever

It is known that Labradors in the early centuries were mostly black, it is some these original/native dogs that carried the bloodline information that was required to produce chocolate puppies.

How is the Chocolate Colour Inherited in Labradors

If you are into dogs, you should know that the looks and the specific colour coats of your dogs are completely dependent on the gene and that gene usually come in pairs.

Illustratively, you can determine what colour to give your Lab puppies ad this technique is in the gene and this gene could be called the Black or b. Every Labrador has either two genes for a black coat (BB) or two genes for a brown coat (bb) or one of each (Bb)

Usually, the black colour in Labrador is often the most powerful and dominating colour. In other words, a Labrador which has its gene to be brown in one colour and has one gene for the color black, the dog will be black.

Things To Consider Before Bringing Home A Labrador Puppy

Here are key things to consider before making that final decision on whether or not to bring a labrador into your life:

  1. Do you have the right space for a large dog?
  2. Do you have time for a dog?
  3. Can you afford a dog?
  4. What about your lifestyle?
  5. Will a dog fit in with your family?
  6. Is a Labrador the right dog for you?

 

Chocolate Labrador Characteristics

Dogs are the carriers of their environments and the different genes they carry in them. Moreover, dogs will always come out as a result of the mixture of the breeds that was used during mating.

It is quite true that many chocolate Labradors come from show line and these dogs tend o copy cat the behaviours of their parental bloodlines. They possess the characteristics that are passed along from parent to puppy.

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