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In his book
Excursions In and About Newfoundland During the Years 1839 and 1840,
[16] the geologist Joseph Beete Jukes
describes the St. John's Water Dog. "A thin, short-haired, black dog
came off-shore to us to-day. The animal was of a breed very different
from what we understand by the term Newfoundland dog in England. He had a
thin, tapering snout, a long thin tail, and rather thin, but powerful
legs, with a lank body, – the hair short and smooth." wrote Jukes.
"These are the most abundant dogs in the country...They are no means
handsome, but
are generally more intelligent and useful than the
others...I observed he once or twice put his foot in the water and
paddled it about. This foot was white, and Harvey said he did it to
"toil" or entice the fish. The whole proceeding struck me as remarkable,
more especially as they said he had never been taught anything of the
kind.
NameThe foundational breed of what is now the Labrador Retriever was known as the St. John's Water Dog,
St. John's Dog, or Lesser Newfoundland. When the dogs were later
brought to England, they were named after the geographic area known as
"the Labrador" or simply Labrador to distinguish them from the larger Newfoundland breed, even though the breed was from the more southern Avalon Peninsula.
Historical landmarksThe first written reference to the breed was in 1814 ("Instructions to Young Sportsmen" by Colonel Peter Hawker),
[10] the first painting in 1823 ("Cora. A Labrador Bitch" by Edwin Landseer),
[10] and the first photograph in 1856 (the Earl of Home's dog "Nell", described both as a Labrador and a St. Johns dog).
[12] By 1870 the name Labrador Retriever became common in England.
[10] The first yellow Labrador on record was born in 1899 (Ben of Hyde, kennels of Major C.J. Radclyffe),
[10] and the breed was recognised by The Kennel Club in 1903. The first American Kennel Club (AKC) registration was in 1917.
[10] The chocolate Labrador emerged in the 1930s,
[10] although liver spotted pups were documented being born at the Buccleuch kennels in 1892.
[10] The first dog to appear on the cover of Life Magazine was a black
Labrador Retriever called ‘Blind of Arden’ in the December, 12th, 1938
issue. The St. John's dog survived until the early 1980s, the last two individuals being photographed in old age around 1981.
[12] History of subtypesYellow and chocolate pups would occasionally appear (although often culled), until finally gaining acceptance in the 20th century.
The first recognised yellow Labrador was Ben of Hyde, born in 1899,
and chocolate Labradors became more established in the 1930s.
Ben of Hyde (b.1899), the first recognised yellow Labrador.
Yellow (and related shades)
In the early years of the breed through to the mid-20th century,
Labradors of a shade we would now call "yellow" were in fact a dark,
almost butterscotch, colour (visible in early yellow Labrador
photographs). The shade was known as "Golden" until required to be
changed by the UK Kennel Club, on the grounds that "Gold" was not
actually a colour. Over the 20th century a preference for far lighter
shades of yellow through to cream prevailed, until today most yellow
Labradors are of this shade. Also fawn has been a common colour in the
yellow lab variety.
[17]Interest in the darker shades of gold and fox red were re-established
by English breeders in the 1980s, and three dogs were instrumental in
this change: Balrion King Frost (black, born c. 1976) who consistently
sired "very dark yellow" offspring and is credited as having "the
biggest influence in the re-development of the fox red shade",
[17] and his great-grandson, the likewise famous Wynfaul Tabasco (b.1986),
[18] described as "the father of the modern fox red Labrador", and the only
modern fox red Show Champion in the UK. Other dogs, such as Red Alert
and Scrimshaw Placido Flamingo, are also credited with passing on the
genes into more than one renowned bloodline.
[17]Chocolate labradors
Jack Vanderwyk traces the origins of all Chocolate labradors listed
on the LabradorNet database (some 34,000 Labrador dogs of all shades) to
eight original bloodlines. However, the shade was not seen as a
distinct colour until the 20th century;
before then according to
Vanderwyk, such dogs can be traced but were not registered. A degree of crossbreeding with Flatcoat or Chesapeake Bay retrievers
was also documented in the early 20th century, prior to recognition.
Chocolate labradors were also well established in the early 20th century
at the kennels of the Earl of Feversham, and Lady Ward of
Chiltonfoliat.[19]The bloodlines as traced by Vanderwyk each lead back to three black
labradors in the 1880s—Buccleuch Avon (m), and his sire and dam,
Malmesbury Tramp (m), and Malmesbury June (f). Morningtown Tobla is also
named as an important intermediary, and according to the studbook of
Buccleuch Kennels, the chocolates in this kennel came through
FTW Peter
of Faskally (1908).
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