i have a chocolate lav puppy with a wave of culry hair down her back.
i got her from a rep breeder that i had looked but now have douts.
when i got her she had some yellow on her paws and i was told it was
from the litter running in to bleach and se did not have it when she
was born it would grow out.
now the breeder has come back and said that this is a gentic thing from
the bitch and she did not know at the time. My puppy now has what i
would call brindle coloring on her feet cheek and belly. this is all
kind of ok we love her and had the cahnce to take her back and get our
momney back but would never.
now that she is getting wavy hair on her back i have friends saying
that she is a mixed with a chessie. she has papers and i paid big
bucks.

has any one heard of the color defect or the wave?

"lelena" said in rec.pets.dogs.breeds:

has any one heard of the color defect or the wave?

Do you have pictures?

--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

"lelena" wrote in
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i have a chocolate lav puppy with a wave of culry hair down her back.

Wavy or curly hair, either all over or just on the middle of the back is a
very common coat type mistake in so many breeds which are supposed to have
straight coat. In some breeds sligthly wavy is still totally ok, in some
breeds even rather curly is tolerated although straight is considered
better. It is certainly an inheritable trait.

This is sometimes present at very young age, sometimes it it seen only when
the dog is several years old. If it was visible already when you bought the
pup, you should have gotten it sligthly cheaper than a pup with proper
coat.

when i got her she had some yellow on her paws and i was told it was
from the litter running in to bleach and se did not have it when she
was born it would grow out.
now the breeder has come back and said that this is a gentic thing from
the bitch and she did not know at the time. My puppy now has what i
would call brindle coloring on her feet cheek and belly.

She is a brown tanpoint with brindle points, aka brown brindlepoint, aka
"stripe-paws". A rather common color fault in Labradors. The breeder can't
be too "reputable" if he/she didn't recognize a brindlepoint puppy. They
can be very hard to tell apart from normal solids when they are born, but
the brindled points are easy to see few weeks later.

"Comes from the bitch" - sure, and from the sire too. Tanpoint (and
brindlepoint) is recessive to normal solid in Labradors, and like all
recessives, it has to be inherited from BOTH parents. A good breeder should
know the basics or genetics.

This is a big bad mistake if you were going to show your pup or breed her
one day, but certainly doesn't harm her in any way if her career is going
to be anything else but showing or breeding.

now that she is getting wavy hair on her back i have friends saying
that she is a mixed with a chessie. she has papers and i paid big
bucks.

These faults do not mean that she is part Chessie, but she is most probably
a purebred Lab. And either the breeder wasn't too careful when doing this
breeding, or he/she just had sheer bad luck in getting both coat and color
mistakes in the same litter. But he/she should have been able to tell you
about them before you chose just this pup, and if you even mentioned the
possibility to show, you should have gotten another pup without these very
visible faults. But if you were buying a pet, these faults don't make her
any worse because they don't affect her health or temperament.

Liisa

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 05:57:38 +0000 (UTC) Liisa Sarakontu whittled these words:
Liisa,

I really like the way you both answer the direct concerns and also the
common unspoken concerns. You do a good job of providing information,
thank you.

--
Diane Blackman
There is no moral victory in proclaiming to abhor violence
while preaching with violent words.
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thank you so much for you reply. we got her for a pet and she has the
mellow temperment we were looking for so we are happy with her. i just
feel mislead by the breeder and had a bad taste in my mouth. i bought
two dogs that day and payed the same for both. one is a light yellow no
coat flaws.

The funny thing is we had just lost our brindle Mastiff and as the
brindling growns on our puupy the more she reminds us of the great dog
we lost.
tahnks again.