We’ve posted several times about Purebred Brindle and Black and Tan Labrador Retrievers. Just the other day I received an email from one of our readers with some great pictures of his two Brindle Labs.
Here are the earlier posts including information about the Purebred Brindle and Black and Tan Labrador Retrievers:
Black And Tan Labrador Retrievers
Here are the pictures I received:
Brindle Labrador Retrievers
Here’s what Bill had to say about his two dogs:
Here are a few more shots of Maia and Tora, our brindled labs. As you can see, Tora has grown quite a bit. Also attached are hunting photos, one of both dogs working an area of red grass and sage’ and two of Tora on a point.
Tora has turned out to be a natural pointer. One of her great-grandfathers was a famous pointing lab, Sir Hershey of Sussex. So is Maia’s, but she won’t stay put when she gets close to a bird. Tora, when by herself, will hold. Stopping and pointing is natural; however, I still give her strong commands to stay to reinforce and maintain this skill. Sorry I didn’t get the bird in the photo. It ended up being a Hun, a Hungarian partridge. We were hunting in Strasburg, CO.
Bill: Thanks for the great pictures of Maia and Tora! We hope to see and hear more about your two Brindled Labrador Retrievers in the near future.
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I was very interested in seeing the photos of the Black and Tan Labrador. Our boy, Tyson, is also a Black and Tan, aged 11 years and an absolute joy. Everyone thinks he is a Lab/Rotweiller cross, and they are quite surprised when we tell them his parents were both Black Labs. If we dipped him in a bucket of black paint there wouldn’t be any queries at all about his breeding.
Marie Newham, Pakenham, Victoria, Australia.
I just saw a picture of a black and tan pup in a book about labs yesterday. I also saw a couple of pups that were very, very red in color. When my yellow lab whelped two years ago, I remember being shocked as she had two black, two yellow, then a Rotti, then a red pup! I sold the “Rotti” and the red pup as “cross-breds” for $200 less a piece! I thought somehow my bitch had been bred by a Rotti, but apparantly it wasn’t a mixed litter after all. She was bred to a black! Somebody got a deal on a couple of nice pups!
i just got a puppy and the rescue i got her from doesn’t know about her origin.. could be rottie or lab or both. any ideas?
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2606824&id=680286521
@Kristen, I’m sorry I can’t see the picture in the link you posted. It gives me a “Content is currently unavailable” error.
on 5/5/09 we had a litter of 9 puppies of which 7 are chocolate and two are chocolate with tan on their chest, face, paws, and under their tale. Are these Brindle puppies?
Kristen, Just saw your comment and looked at your doggie pics. Could definitely be a purebred lab. Your dog has very similar coloring to Maia. The pics above include one of my babies, Tora, that traveled to Denver to be with her cousin, Maia. They are both decendents of a 5 time world champion pointer retriever, Sir Hershey of Surrey. I personally believe that is the line with the brindling in it. From the research I have done, the story goes that back in the 1800′s they mixed a lab with a Morgan Setter to develop a pointing, retreiver dog. This is where the brindling comes from. It only occurs with two blood combinations. They are just great dogs aren’t they. Sorry for the late comment. I’ve been busy with our latest litter which includes 2 pups with brindling.
Dear Peggy,
Thank u for writing about the amazing Sir Hershley, Haven’t heard about him till now. Here in Europe I think we don’t have anything like him.
You tell that the brindiling comes from a Morgan Setter. Now, I didn’t find any pic or defining about the breed in the net. Or, do you mean the black-and-tan-colourer Gordon Setter?
Sorry it’s been so long since you asked your question. Yes, you are right. It is a Gordon Setter not a Morgan Setter. Early dimensia I guess. Anyway, these “mismarks” as they refer to them are beautiful dogs and definitely purebreds.