In planning this litter, we were pretty sure we would have lots of well-marked black and tan puppies, just like their parents.  So you can imagine our shock when 5 of the 7 puppies who arrived were brown and tan!  I thought it was my imagination at first, but no, the local chocolate Lab definitely did not get to Neka when we weren't looking.  We knew that Neka had a brown grandfather so she could theoretically carry the recessive brown gene, but it turned out that Kimmi had one as well.

The first puppies from one of this litter came in 2010, making Neka a granny for the first time.  Visit the Tuisku litter page for details.