Hi we recently purchased a chocolate lab! We have concerns about the color of the lab. Our previous lab was a dark chocolate, the one we just purchased is like a light brown almost a redish brown, is it possible that this is a fradulant lab?

You have a picture? Doesn't necessarily mean the lab is "fraudulent". They come in many different shades of chocolate and yellow. Black is black of course. Are the parents registered? If they are AKC registered your lab is purebred. A breeder should have all documentation of their registered lab.

As odd as it gets! When we got our baby you could see yellow in her tail when see went swimming and was wet. She has always had some darker almost black on her back but now the yellow is gone. She still is a very dark chocolate at two years old but she is registered AKC. We did the background on her for three generations and there are blacks and yellows there. We just never worried about it and like I said, The yellow went away. Strange?

Yeah, my older chocolate is a dark chocolate and she has an even darker stripe down her back. It's almost black. It looks cool and you can really notice it in the summer when the rest of her coat gets a little lighter from the sun. Just birth marks.

Jake and Ciara are litter mates. He is very, very dark, but Ciara is, what a friend of mine calls, cinnamon. When she is very clean she is almost red. Their mom is dark, as is their father. The breeder seems to think mom might have yellow in future litters (?) since Ciara is light. Jake also has, what we call, a racing stripe down his back, which has become darker as he gets older.

Carol, so your Jake has a "racing stripe", too? That's cool. I haven't seen another dog other than mine that has that.

Our JJ has a yellow stripe around his tail (ironically, so does his sister who is also chocolate). He came from a litter with all three colors.

Just joined now to this forum. Interesting place.

I have chocolate lab that was a gift from a relative this past christmas. What I'm noticing is that he has a lot of redish fur coming through now. His tail is half red. Almost like a line was drawn halfway down and then its redish from there on. He is a great dog. No papers from the store they purchased him at though and also no known breeding history. Its the first chocolate I've seen with this redish fur mixing in. I'll post a photo if interested here.

Cheers,
James

I have 6 chocolates and they all vary in color and even vary more depending what time of year it is. I woul dbet your reddish chocolate is due to her blowing her coat. It is that time of year. Give her a good warm bath and brush her out. She should be an even color once her new coat is all in. Chocoalte come in shades from a milk dud milk chocoalte to a deep dark bittersweet chocolate. It is not unusual for a chocolate to have light undercoat.