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Remember, smooth hair is dominant in dogs.
I actually think that Merle from Merle’s Door was this cross, rather than a Labrador/redbone cross. His coat was much fuller than I would expect from a Labrador crossed with such a smooth coated breed as a redbone coonhound.
[…] I am still very skeptical that bloodhound was ever used in the cross because there have never been any smooth-coated golden retrievers. Smooth coats in dog breed are almost always dominant over long coats, and they certainly are when golden retrievers are bred to scenthounds. […]