Why Chocolate Coat Dogs Live Shorter?

Cute chocolate puppies, credit to Mychelle Blake

Dog lifespan is between 10 – 13 years, while the breed called Labrador has lifespan of 10 – 14 years or average of 12 years.

Actually, not longer than human. This bred is popular in America, UK and Canada. Interestingly, the lifespan of Labrador depends on colors very much.

The Labradors with chocolate coat have shorter lifespan or less than 12 years average compared to other colors such as yellow and black.

The question is: Why? There are two reasons, first, physically that chocolate Labradors tend to get:

- ear infection

- obesity

- joint conditions

- skin diseases (hot spots).

The second is that chocolate coats Labradors have narrow “gene pool” genetically.

Two puppies play around

The fact that chocolate color is recessive, thus to get chocolate color offspring, breeders tend to breed both parents (a mature male and female) which have chocolate colors.

The reducing of gene pool is believed to lead to dogs health problems.

Cute puppies

Moreover, three colors that are black, yellow and chocolate are popular in the world.

Five colors: fox red, white, black, yellow and chocolate are common breeds in the USA and some extends to Canada.

Play with mom

In respect to colors, all colors of Labradors are kindly and to be one of favorite dogs for children.

They could be trained easily. Quite surprisingly, both owners and breeders notice that chocolate Labradors are little bit difficult to follow or obey rules and certain instructions.

They are could be categorized as disobedient compared to other dog colors.

Do you believe it?

40 comments:

SaruskiFebruary 10, 2019 at 6:25 AM
Is amazing that the colour can make this big difference of age.
David M. Gascoigne,February 10, 2019 at 8:08 AM
Shorter lifespan or not, they sure look cute.
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VictoriaFebruary 10, 2019 at 9:02 AM
Such beautiful dogs. Thanks for sharing and for your visit.
Victoria
Bob BushellFebruary 10, 2019 at 10:59 AM
They are lovely, yes, I believe them.
ChristineFebruary 10, 2019 at 12:38 PM
This is interesting.
Phil SladeFebruary 10, 2019 at 12:48 PM
Interesting. Our daughter ha a black lab, Holly. She's 15 and on her last legs.
Marc HeathFebruary 10, 2019 at 10:43 PM
An interesting read indeed. Always learning.
BudiFebruary 11, 2019 at 3:23 AM
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Intangible HeartsFebruary 11, 2019 at 7:35 AM
They look sweet. My friend is writing a book about his black lab Sadie.
CatalinFebruary 11, 2019 at 9:59 AM
Chocolate dogs are beautiful, but any gift also has its minuses...
ClaudiaMorningstarFebruary 11, 2019 at 2:35 PM
CHocolate dogs are beautiful but shorter life is very sad.
ZaaFebruary 11, 2019 at 5:36 PM
They are beautiful dogs and I know that they are quite popular but I do believe that sometimes the breeding conditions are not in the best interest of the animals. I did not know that they had a shorter life span, but i quess if we're going to play around with genetics we have to expect some negative aspects. This was a very interesting post..THANK YOU.
The Armchair SquidFebruary 11, 2019 at 6:09 PM
They're adorable!

Interesting that they don't live as long but it's easy to understand how the shallower gene pool weakens the breed over time.
LackadaisyFebruary 11, 2019 at 6:24 PM
I could never imagine the fur colour could be of such a great affect, I thought it's basically just colour!

LackaDaisy

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Debbie HarrisFebruary 11, 2019 at 9:30 PM
Quite interesting.
My parents had a chocolate lab, Abby was her name and she was the sweetest thing!
I did not know this about labs.
We learn something new every day. :-)

Joy!
Debbie
Henny PennyFebruary 12, 2019 at 7:47 AM
I did not know this. My husband and I once raised Labs. We had all three popular colors, but the chocolate was my favorite. All Labs are wonderful.
KBFebruary 12, 2019 at 5:44 PM
They are so beautiful
Suburban GirlOctober 19, 2019 at 4:11 AM
Interesting.