pjhunts,

What are your plans for the dog?
Housedog?
Hunting dog?
Service dog?

Or what?

Silver Labs are registered as Chocolate. There is fairly good evidence that there is some Viszla or Weimie that was bred into a Chocolate in order to get the color (of course, all the Silver breeders deny this).
As for price, they are exhorbitant --- they usually run in the $1200 to $2500 range, so the price range you quoted is barely the amount of a deposit.
There has been a huge amount of inbreeding in order to retain the color.




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