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Oh, she's a pistol. Her sire is FC/AFC The Man In Black, by Lean Mac out of Gator Point Sweet Potato Pie. Dam is a Candlewood bitch, by a Franklin (dual purpose) sire out of an Honest Abe/Abercrombie & Fitch dam. The litter was bred by Mary Howley. I had her DNA tested and she would throw all three colors. Need to wait til she's two to have her hips, elbows and eyes checked.

I kinda went up one grade of gasoline on the black pup. My older dog's dam is by FC/AFC Storm's Riptide Star, the only chocolate Lab to win the national field title, but her sire is a conformation champion who is an affable old boy, but couldn't find a bird in a phone booth if you poured gravy on it. Nobody was sure what to do with that litter or how they would turn out. At least one other good hunting dog in the litter, but he looks nothing like my dog - he's a big old block-headed moose. You do those wide outcrosses, you get some like the sire, some like the dam, and every possible combination in between. The type doesn't settle down for a generation or so.