AKC Stance on Silver Labrador
Retrievers
AKC Stance on SILVER LABRADOR RETRIEVERS


~Response of Robert Young of AKC on March 27, 2000 giving AKC official position
on the issue of Silver Labs.~



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 (very light) to dark chocolate, it was felt
that the dogs could more accurately be described as chocolate than as silver.