Tejas retrievers has some good dogs just remember your black lab is the smartest. And if you go with a yellow or white make sure it has a black nose and feet or it will be tenderfoot. I wouldn't mess with a chocolate they're generally dumber than a box of rocks. Your northern imports are better hunters but can't really take the texas summers well you get what you pay for get something from proven stock and don't buy a 300 dollar non papered pup. It may or may not turn out but that's a chance you take you may pay more in the beginning but in the end it's worth it to drop a little more up front
You do realize that your outlook on color is .....well.......pretty silly........... To say one color is smarter than the other makes absolutely no sense........2 black dogs out of proven lines can have a litter of pups with chocs. Blacks and yellows......how would it make any sense that the choc. Is the least intellegent? .......just sayin
Before buying my lab I did a lot of research not only on the Internet but asked all they dog trainers around my area and north texas and three quarter of them don't care for a chocolate because they aren't as intelligent as for the black labs throwing chocolates it's not likely if you find a line that goes back and is proven to have nothing but black sires and dams. The chocolate color didn't emerge until the 1930's and people liked it so much they bred them specifically for that color and therefore they lost some of their intelligence in that time
