Brindle Labrador Retriever

Brindle Labrador Retriever – Dixie

September 21, 2009 By Colby 18 Comments

We received some more pictures of Brindle Labs and decided to keep posting them to the website. Take a look at the images of Dixie below…she sure does have an interesting color for a Labrador Retriever. I hope you enjoy!

Dixie The Three Year Old Brindle Lab

Dixie is a 3 years old brindle lab. Her mother is Chancy a dark chocolate lab, and her father is Sam a black lab. She was one of two fully brindle colored pups in the litter and she is the only surviving one. Five of the pups in this litter had some brindle coloring.

Dixie has had one litter of pups after she turned two and we kept her son who is chocolate, there were some that had a patch or two of brindle however none with her coloring. She is a very happy playful dog who loves water and Frisbee catching.

We love this breed and have five wonderful dogs. Two black, one dark chocolate, one chocolate and Dixie our brindle. I have included pictures of her below.

I hope you enjoy the beauty of her color as we do, however we enjoy her more for her temperament and loving demeanor. J.N. Orleans, Michigan

Black and Tan Lab Images – Louis, Gadget, and Daisy

September 2, 2009 By Colby 2 Comments

We’ve talked about Brindle and Black and Tan Labrador Retrievers over the past couple years. I first encountered a Black and Tan Lab a couple years ago when I met Egan from Guide Dogs of America. Since then I’ve received many images of brindle labs and black and tan labs from you the reader. I’ve just been posting these images as I’ve gone along and hopefully some day I’ll consolidate all the images into a nice gallery. However, that day is not today and instead I have three more examples of brindle and black and tan puppies.

Take a look at the adorable images below.

Black and Tan Labs

Gadget – These are images of Tealwood’s Kennel Gadget – “Gadget” was born January 30th 2009. Click on the image to see the full size.

Another Black and Tan Lab

Louis – These are images of Louis another Black and Tan Lab at 4 months and 8 months of age. Click on the image to see the full size.

Brindle Labs

Daisy – Daisy is a beautiful Brindle Lab as you can see. She is a purebred with AKC papers from both parents. Daisy is still a puppy, but seems to have an old soul. Her temperament, even at this young age, is hard to believe. Click on the image to see the full size.

Thank you for sending us your images. I hope everyone enjoyed these images of black and tan labs and brindle labs. If you’re interested in submitting an image of your own Black and Tan Labrador Retriever then please send me an email with attached images at ckmorita [at] puppyintraining [dot] com.

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Black And Tan Labrador Retriever Puppy

June 1, 2009 By Colby 5 Comments

I was just going back through my email and I noticed that I had black and tan labrador retriever puppy photos from one of my readers sitting in my inbox. Unfortunately I sometimes fall behind on my posting duties and I wanted to get this one on the site asap.

How can you resist adorable lab puppies?

Black and Tan Lab Puppies

A note from our reader:

Here is a picture of my male black and tan lab. He was born 1-29-2009 and he is out of a litter of 10; he is 5
weeks old now. This little guy has one heck of a personality on him. The parents to him are yellow and black; Momma is yellow and daddy is black. I own both parents and this is the first time that they have ever thrown a black and tan puppy. The daddy to him is a great duck hunting dog and I think this little guy is going to be just like him. I am also sending you a picture of Leo (the daddy) and Lacy (the mom) the other picture is of his brothers and sister.

Black and Tan Lab Puppy

Black and Tan Lab Puppy

Black and Yellow Lab Puppies

Black and Yellow Lab Puppies

Black, Black and Tan, and Yellow Lab Puppies

Black and Black and Tan Lab Puppy

Black Lab Daddy

Black Lab

Yellow Lab Mommy

Yellow Lab

Some great photos of yellow, black, black and tan labrador retriever puppies. How about you? Have you ever seen a black and tan lab?

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Ranger The Brindle Labrador Retriever

March 16, 2009 By Colby 10 Comments

Sorry it’s been a while I took a short vacation to Colorado for a little snowboarding. While I was gone I got a few more pictures of Brindle and Black and Tan Labrador Retrievers. These images are from one of our readers who found out her dog, Ranger was a purebred Labrador Retriever after getting a DNA test done. You can see Jenny’s full comment in the comment section of our Brindle Labrador Retriever post.

Here are the pictures of Ranger along with the email I received about him:

Ranger The Brindle Labrador Retriever

Ranger The Brindle Lab Puppy

Brindle Lab

Brindle Lab Puppy Days

Brindle Lab

Ranger

Ranger Brindle Lab

Ranger Relaxing on the Grass

Brindle Lab

Ranger Barking

Brindle Lab

Thanks for sending me your e-mail so I can show off Ranger to everybody. Here are some pictures of him. The first two are from when we first adopted him. He was about 10-12 weeks old. The third is a few months later. The last two are from 2007, so Ranger would have been about 3 years old then. Let me tell you about Ranger. You can edit as much of this as you’d like, of course. Ranger was adopted from the North Shore Animal League here on Long Island in 2004. As soon as we laid eyes on him, we knew he was the dog for us, so we went ahead and brought him home to a somewhat bewildered pair of cats. There was no problem introducing them. Everybody got along just fine.

Ranger’s training was just about as simple an operation as any dog owner would ever want to have. He was housetrained within one week, and learned the simple commands of sit, stay, down and come within only a day or two. On the advice of, well, everybody, we tried training him with a cage, but he hated it, my husband hated it, and I hated it. I’d never trained a dog like that before and I probably won’t try it ever again. I’ll stick to what I know how to do.

When our family went up to our lake house in Pennsylvania soon after we got him, he did not hesitate one second before jumping right in and swimming out to the boat filled with my husband and boys for a day of fishing. He spent that day curled up in the boat and taking occasional dips to cool off and get a drink. He was about 15 weeks old then, but to this day he won’t let the boat leave without him.

As I mentioned, we live on Long Island, so there are plenty of squirrels to chase, and chase them he does, but not before going through a rather catlike stalking which includes a picture perfect “point” stance. In addition, my husband does hunt, and has taken him on a few hunting trips. He has done very well in the field, though hubby and I are not really sure how to train a dog for hunting. It doesn’t seem to matter that we’re incompetent, ’cause the dog does exactly what he’s told to do and doesn’t crush the game in his mouth. He is utterly unafraid of the gunshot.

Our house in not empty too often (I am a stay-at-home mom), but there has been no problem leaving him at home alone. He is not destructive in the least. But if someone IS home…Ranger will be with him. Whenever we’re around, the dog is somewhere close by and often falls asleep on your feet (like he’s doing right now while I’m typing this). He gets along wonderfully with our cats and is friendly and gregarious with other dogs and people.

That is not to say that he isn’t protective of his family. He intensely dislikes it when the boys shout at each other or fight. Should they begin a tussle, Ranger will get between them and bark. If the smoke alarm goes off (like when we’re broiling something), he barks like crazy and always gets a treat for his excellent supplementary alarm system.

All in all, he’s a great dog and we couldn’t be happier with him. This whole “what’s my dog” thing has been a lot of fun for our family, and now that we know what he is, it’s also been very interesting, too!

Hope you like the pictures of our wonderful dog. I don’t know what we’d do without him.

PS: Ranger does do one strange thing: He eats like a cat. What I mean is, when his food is put down for him, he doesn’t do what most dogs do, namely scarf the whole thing up in about two seconds. No…he eats a few bites and walks away from his bowl, coming back throughout the day to graze. When he is finished, he picks up his bowl and carries it to us for a refill. I’ve never seen this behavior in a dog before.

If you’d like to read more about Brindle and Black and Tan Labrador Retrievers check out these articles:

Brindle and Black and Tan Labrador Retrievers

Black And Tan Labrador Retrievers

Brindle Labrador Retrievers

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Brindle and Black and Tan Labrador Retrievers

March 3, 2009 By Colby 10 Comments

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

Brindle Labrador Retrievers

Here are the pictures I received:

Brindle Labrador Retrievers

Tora and Maia

Brindle Labrador Retrievers Tora and Maia

Brindle Labrador Retrievers Tora and Maia Hunting

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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Brindle Labrador Retrievers

September 30, 2008 By Colby 34 Comments

Have you ever seen a Brindle Labrador Retriever? As far as I know I have not seen one in person. Although, I’m not too sure I’d recognize a purebred brindle Labrador retriever even if I saw one.

Just about everyone has heard of the Labrador Retriever breed. And I’d probably say that most people know the common colors of a lab: yellow, black, and chocolate (brown). Of course, there’s a lot of variation in the yellow coloring from a very light white color to as deep as red/copper color.

However, have you heard of or ever seen the other Labrador Retriever coat colors? A few months back I wrote an article about Black and Tan Labrador Retrievers. The coloring is very similar to a Rottweiler or a Doberman Pinscher. One of our guide dog puppy’s in training, Egan was black and tan lab. If you want to see a picture of Egan take a look at the article on Black and Tan Labrador Retrievers.

Brindle Labrador Retriever

The second unusual color variation in the Labrador coat color is brindle. As I mentioned in my previous article the brindle coloring is seen less often. Labs with brindling have tan speckling on their forelegs, muzzles, and chest.

Here at Puppy In Training we were lucky enough to receive some pictures from one of our readers who has a couple brindle Labrador Retrievers. Here are the photos I received:

Waiting For Her Treat

Good Down-Stay!

Learning To Retrieve

Here’s what Maia and Tora’s handler had to say about his two brindle Labrador Retrievers:

“Maia’s reddish/brown on black is more dramatic. Each leg has a different pattern. Her inner thighs have yellow hair as does her butt area. At 8 months I began training her to hunt pheasant, quail and chukar. Often times she will hold a strong point and I have hunted her with some professionals and she holds her own. Tora’s a chocolate with yellow markings on he muzzle, across her chest and on each leg. Her brindling is more uniform than Maia’s. At nearly six months she swims like a fish and retrieves very well. Soon we’ll go to the fields with a couple of birds and begin training in earnest.”

It’s interesting to see pictures and hear about the unusual color variations in Labs.

As you all know I’m working with my current puppy, Derby in hopes that he will someday be a guide dog. Raising a guide dog requires a specific training program as we prepare our puppies to lead their blind handlers in many different places and situations. One thing that caught my interest after reading the short snippet about Maia and Tora the Brindle labs is that they are being trained as hunting dogs. As with a guide dog I’m sure a hunting dog has a strict and specific training program. I would be interested to see exactly what kind of training a hunting dog goes through.

If anyone has any other pictures of brindle labs I’d love to see them. If you train hunting dogs I’d be interested to hear about how a hunting dog is trained. What do you think of these Purebred Brindle Labrador Retrievers?

Here are some more articles on Purebred Brindle and Black and Tan Labrador Retrievers:

Brindle and Black and Tan Labrador Retrievers

Black And Tan Labrador Retrievers

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Black And Tan Labrador Retrievers

November 26, 2007 By Colby 149 Comments

I thought I new a decent bit about Labrador Retrievers, but I had never heard of purebred Black and Tan Labrador Retrievers until I began volunteering as a puppy raiser working with Stetson (my GDA puppy) and his guide dog training. From the Guiding Eyes website:

“The black and tan coloring is due to a modifier gene normally present in Labrador Retrievers. It is recessive and therefore requires each parent to contribute the black and tan gene to an individual for the color to show up. It can modify a black or chocolate Lab to have lighter tan markings in the usual locations of a Gordon Setter, Doberman or Rottewieler. There is also a brindle coloring that Labs can have. We see it less often. Labs with brindling have tan speckling on their forelegs, muzzles and chest.”

Black and Tan and Brindle Labs are not allowed to compete in the show ring because they are not considered desirable traits for the standard lab. However, they can be registered with the AKC (American Kennel Club) and these color choices are available on the registration slips.

Their coat color may be different then your standard black/yellow/chocolate lab, but they have the same temperament as their solid colored littermates. Take a look at these pictures of Billy one of our readers Black and Tan Labrador Retriever:

Another trait I noticed was a small white spot on some of the black labs in our group. After doing a little bit of research I found that this trait is also permissible in the AKC Labrador Retriever Standard.

If you know of any other unusual traits found in purebred labs please leave a comment or let me know.

I’d love to see any images you have of black and tan Labrador Retrievers or Brindle Labs. If you have some great pictures please send them over and I’ll try to post them to the website.

I have received many images from others who own purebred black and tan labs and brindle labs. Moving forward I plan on appending the new images to this post. If you’re interested in sending me your images of purebred black and tan labrador retrievers and brindle labs then please email me at ckmorita [at] puppyintraining [dot] com. Also, be sure and include a short summary/description of your puppy.

Benny the Brown and Tan Lab

This is our brown and tan labrador Benny. It was only one brown and tan Labrador in a “draft” from 12 Labrador babys. He is a kindly dog. He loves child and he learn fast. He grow up with two child. We looked for a dog for our son, who suffers from selective mutism. And we find the right dog. He is tomorrow 19 weeks old.

Brindle Lab Puppies

I saw the pics of the brindle lab dogs on your site. We didn’t know what to think when our female had 3 out of 9 that came out with the brindle color. One has just a
bit on the paws, another has it on his paws and a little on his chest, the other one has it on his paws, chest face and neck. They are so pretty.

Black, Yellow, and Black And Tan Lab Puppies

The Puppies

Mom and Dad

I am sending you Pictures of the Black and tan pups and Mom and Dad I was very surprised to see this color of pups come from my Chocolate Female and my Yellow Male The pups were born on Jan 15th 2010 here are some Pictures of the Black and Tan and the rest of the Litter and Mom and Dad.

Here are some follow up articles including pictures and additional information on Purebred Brindle and Black and Tan Labrador Retrievers:

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