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Breed
standard
Labrador
Retriever
GROUP: 8 (C)
FCI's BREED NO: 122
GENERAL APPEARANCE - Strongly built, short
coupled, very active; broad in skull; broad and
deep through chest and ribs; broad and strong
over loins and hindquarters.
CHARACTERISTICS - Good tempered, very agile.
Excellent nose, soft mouth; keen love of water.
Adaptable, devoted companion.
TEMPERAMENT - Intelligent, keen and biddable,
with a strong will to please. Kindly nature,
with no trace of aggression or undue shyness.
HEAD AND SKULL - Skull broad with defined stop;
clean cut without fleshy cheeks. Jaws of medium
length, powerful not snipey. Nose wide, nostrils
well-developed.
EYES - Medium size, expressing intelligence and
good temper; brown or hazel.
EARS - Not large or heavy, hanging close to head
and set rather far back.
MOUTH - Jaws and teeth strong with a perfect,
regular and complete scissor bite, i.e. Upper
teeth closely overlapping lower teeth and set
square to the jaws.
NECK - Clean, strong, powerful, set into
well-placed shoulders.
FOREQUARTERS - Shoulders long and sloping.
Forelegs well-boned and straight from elbow to
ground when viewed from either front or side.
BODY - Chest of good width and depth, with well
sprung barrel ribs. Level topline. Loins wide,
short coupled and strong.
HINDQUARTERS - Well-developed not sloping to
tail; well turned stifle. Hocks well let down,
cowhocks highly undesirable.
FEET - Round, compact; well-arched toes and
well-developed pads.
TAIL - Distinctive feature, very thick towards
base, gradually tapering towards tip, medium
length, free from feathering, but clothed
thickly all round with short, thick, dense coat,
thus giving 'rounded' appearance described as 'Otter'
tail. May be carried gaily but should not curl
over back.
GAIT/MOVEMENT - Free, covering adequate ground;
straight and true in front and rear.
COAT - Distinctive feature, short dense without
wave or feathering, giving fairly hard feel to
the touch; weather resistant undercoat.
COLOUR - Wholly black, yellow or liver/chocolate.
Yellows range from light cream to red fox. Small
white spot on chest permissible.
SIZE - Height: Dogs 56 - 57 cms (22-22½ ins) at
withers Females 54.5 - 56 cms (21½ - 22 ins) at
withers
FAULTS - Any departure from the foregoing points
should be considered a fault and the seriousness
with which the fault should be regarded should
be in exact proportion to its degree.
NOTE - Male animals should have two apparently
normal testicles fully descended into the
scrotum.
Color
Different shades of yellow: a
usual yellow shade, and a fox red shade.
The three primary color varieties of the Labrador
Retriever
Labrador Retrievers are registered in three colors:[13]
black (a solid black color), yellow (anything from light
cream to "fox-red"), chocolate (medium to dark brown).
Some Labrador retrievers can have markings such as white
patches on their chest and other areas, but most
commonly they are one solid color.
Puppies of all colors can potentially occur in the same
litter. Color is determined primarily by two genes. The
first gene (the B locus) determines the density of the
coat's pigment granules: dense granules result in a
black coat, sparse ones give a chocolate coat. The
second (E) locus determines whether the pigment is
produced at all. A dog with the recessive e allele will
produce little pigment and will be yellow regardless of
its genotype at the B locus.[16] Variations in numerous
other genes control the subtler details of the coat's
coloration, which in yellow Labs varies from white to
light gold to a fox red. Chocolate and black Labs' noses
will match the coat color.
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