[brytlea]

Weasel dog, now thats funny!
No, they won’t be black, and they’d better have more hair. I hope they would fetch a bird, but I doubt they would have as much style as your lab.
:)
susie

[AnAmericanMother]

Most conformation Labs have an undercoat and a pretty thick topcoat. Shelley has a more typical conformation coat -- she's half conformation after all.

Ruby has no undercoat that I can find, and the thinnest, slickest, oiliest topcoat ever. When she's wet, she looks like a black seal. She's about 1/4 conformation, but that line is what they call "dual purpose" - and has some hunting dogs in the background too. She sure didn't get anything from that side except her very correct head. Shelley has a pretty good body but her head is all field - long and snipey. If we swapped the bodies, we'd have one field dog and one conformation dog.