Temperaments of the different coloured labs Behaviour

do the black, golden and chocolate labs have different temperaments or are they exact same just different colour

i have also never seen a chocolate lab as a guide dog

I have owned both yellow and black and can honestly say I never noticed any difference. The only thing I did notice was people didn't seem to think the black ones looked so friendly and always made a fuss of the yellow, but their temperement was exactly the same.

We were out walking today,never had any hassle from other dogs.The only problem we saw on our travels was a golden adult going for a golden youngster,xxxxxx

Interesting !

Many Black/dark brown dogs in general (of any breed) are seen as provoking by potentially dog aggressive dogs, as other dogs struggle to see their eyebrows/eye movements, which in any other dog would be clearly displayed and therefore they can judge the other dog's approachability.

Maybe this has something to do with why they aren't used as guide dogs, because of the potential for them to be misunderstood and potentially targeted by other wary dogs.

I don't know I'm just hazarding a guess ! lol

At the vets, choccie ones have a rep for being nutters!

There is no reason that temperaments should be different between colours. IMO, the breeding lines will dictate the personality type far more so than colour. I know lots of labs of all 3 colours and coulsn't say one colour is uniformly more nuts than another but I do know individual nutters of all 3 colours

Having said that, in my breed, the browns are notorious for being more 'challenging' (for want of a better word) than the black (which is the most common colour for the breed). No-one has ever offered me an explanation for it (they're usually too busy pointing and laughing at the eejit who got a brown as her first of the breed ) but, again it is likely to be down to the breeding lines more so than just the colour genes.

There is such an immense number of labradors out there that I think it would be fairly difficult to pinpoint whether the temperament of one colour is different from the temperament of another. All these dogs come from different parents, with different temperaments. It's just like their apperances-I've seen labs that look like hounds and even labs that look like they're half great dane! The breed seems to be so jumbled and mixed up because of such a large gene pool that I personally don't think behaviour is color related. I'd have to say that I've seen an equal number of mis-behaved chocolate/yellow/black labs and well-behaved chocolate/yellow/black labs. I do, however, see many more black labs than I do chocolate or yellow, seems to be the color of choice around here where I am haha.

Overall, IMHO, I don't think temperament is colour related, but parentage and social/owner related

I have noticed all seem to have deteriorated in temprament but the chocys are nuts,, sometimes good nuts sometimes bad, but it could be that they are just being bought by the wrong people, they are a high work energy breed, that all to often doesnt get the exercise needed, .........runs

Ah,,, intresting, but glad rotties have orange bits now,

They should have the same temperament regardless of colour, however out of all the labs I have known I have noticed a few differences but that is most likely coincidence.

Yellows have been very smart, but not as smart as blacks.
Yellows also are daft, but not as daft as chocolates.
Blacks are the most calm and chocs have an ability to have accidents, they were top of the insurance claims list for a few years for accidents.

bet swallowing whole rubber balls came high on the list of claims, or swallowing other stuff that aint going all the way through

Yeah, you guessed right, I have heard of xmas tree lights, snooker balls and the most odd a 6inch knife.

I was told many years ago that choc Labs are the hardest to work with because they are not a natural Lab colour. this came about do to breeding and became popular with the public. I have been going to gun dog shows and events for at least 15 years, and I could count on one hand the amount of choc Labs that have entered competitions. There has been many spectating though.

As you can image I board a lot of Labs being very popular. I can say without doubt, that the most temeprament "aggression" issues come from black. We have more destructive, hyper, silly behaviour from chocolates. We do get dodgy yellows, but in my experience not anywhere near as we do blacks.

The chocolates, are usually poor specimens, light eyes, pink pigment, bred for the wrong reasons and their temperament is usually completely unreasonable. I am struggling here to think of a handful of well behaved chocs. This morning we had 2 in, one has trashed the kennel and his bed, the other is dog aggressive, and both are out of control. The choc bitches owner is a responsible Lab owner who's last black bitch was a dream, so in most cases I think it really is the dog (breeding) and not the owners.

They certainly are a natural colour Gaz, just not "desirable" in the early days and were usually culled.

You know me, kinda.

There was alot of chocs bred just to be sold for a high price, when first looking at labs yellows and blacks were x amount, chocs often double. There were also bred loads and often badly, the sight of a well bred choc is great but it was/is difficult. Their coats are often to light for me.

All stars family are great looking dogs, I think I got a dud.

He was in my handful of nice, well behaved, friendly chaps!!!

On looks alone, I prefer the Choc Labs !