I dunno Tanya. When I was whelping a rescue, the first puppy that popped out was brown, and of course I deemed it 'Chocolate' my friend who was there is a Westie breeder, and she laughed and said something along the lines of 'its just brown'. We had no idea what breeds were in there, but it remained 'the chocolate' puppy though it ended up with long hair
That's a good question. The other day I was reading the local classifieds in the paper and there was an ad for lab puppies from a very obvious BYB: $200 a pup, not registered, and they said they had 4 black, 1 chocolate and 3 vanilla pure bread labrador pups.
LOL, nobody ever uses "brown". Peanut is classifies as a "red", and while her coat does have a reddish tinge, she's basically brown.
Poodles can come in "chocolate" as well, brown pointers are called "liver", etc.
I think because "brown" can have so many different shades they use words like "chocolate", "red", and "liver" to try and more accurately describe the shade.
I think because "brown" can have so many different shades they use words like "chocolate", "red", and "liver" to try and more accurately describe the shade.
I also call my dogs based on their colors/size. Big brown dog (or just brown dog), and little black dog (or just black dog). A lady at a park heard me do it once, and she said, "Not very original."
Coco says, "cause everybody needs a little bit of chocolate in their life!"
I often refer to the girls as my little chocolate drop and my vanilla creme. Abbey is light butter yellow with caramel colored swirls all over her. They make a good combination!
Shades are addressed by common saying ....if you keep on calling it brown & get well supported it will b trade mark too brown labs.......no hard rule ....cheers
Well at least chocolates ARE chocolate colored. Yellows are really not yellow. Actually only in labs the color is called yellow. In other "breads" it´s called cream, golden, etc.
They should be called blonds and if they are dumb, bimbos lol
Good thing they are called Chocolate or HK would likely not be in our house.
Early 07, DW says, 'I want a Chocolate Lab.' Let me assure you that she would have never said, brown lab, or dark brown lab. She likes fancy names that remind her of food, chocolate being one of the best. So, I am really happy that HK is a Chocolate Lab. That is my position and there is no logic to change my mind.
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