I got my first purebread lab in 1998, a yellow female. We bread her a couple of years later with a purebread chocolate and got 10 black pups. We placed the pups in homes of good freinds and one went on to be a drug dog for the CBSA (like her grand father). We kept one black male. I lost them in a divorce but still see them a couple of time each week and my son sees them half of each week. The yellow female does not have much time left, but they are both great loyal animals.
We picked up a pure bread Boxer puppy in the summer, didn't want the labrador memories (or shedding)
Different animal, but every bit as loyal and loving. Strangely she play fetch really well, but can't catch a frisbee to save her life....
"Golden" goes with retrievers and "yellow" goes with labs...... Just a "pet" peeve.....