Are all Chocolate Labradors untrainable?
Nearly every caller enquiring about a chocolate puppy drops, at some point, into the conversation, that a guy down the pub/that trains with them/that works in their office/they met at a bus-stop in 1973 told them catagorically that chocolates are anything from ‘more hectic than black and yellow labradors’ to downright ‘loopy and untrainable’. This is such a commonly held stereotype I had to write about it, partly to give a realistic answer, and partly to reassure! In answer to ‘where did the negative rumours start about chocolates’ take a seat…. Chocolate was NOT a desireable colour until fairly recent times. It was almost considered a mismark and many many chocolates born in litters in the first half of the 1900’s were culled in some manner as fast as possible after birth. They were utterly undesireable. the story behind that is purely based on the fact that the labrador was considered and recognised as Black and Yellow (indeed it took some time before yellow was recognised and enco
