Premature Greying Doodle?

[Sherri, Sophie, Winston, & Kitty]

So after my doodle got her new hair doo I noticed that there is a smattering of white/grey-ish hair. She is almost seven months and hasn't gotten her adult coat. Is this a sign that her adult coat will have white/grey in it? I'm confused. Her mom was a chalk coloured doodle and her dad is a lovely dark chocolate colour. I wasn't expecting a mix, not that I would mind. But I'm wondering if anyone else has a chocolate doodle that has done this, and if so, should I expect more and more 'highlights' in my doodle's fur, or is this just a random fluke? 

 

[Bonnie and Kona]

I had a black puppy who is now, at 4 yrs, what I call pewter colored because he has so much light mixed in with the black. I don't know about chocolate. It came in the way Sophie Bear's is.

[Adina P]

It is not uncommon.  Not really 'premature' as much as a common trait.  Boca is salt and pepper all over.

[Diana Erhart]

Charlie's fur had the white hairs in it like that too when he was a puppy.  He started out a very dark chocolate brown and now at 5 years old his coat is a lighter brown color.  What color eyes does SophieBear have?  Charlie has amber colored eyes and I seem to remember that somewhere along the line someone told me that if they have the amber color eyes their coat will more than likely lighten up a bit as they get older.

[Nicky, Riley & Boris]

Riley, has an almost white undercota in places and  chocolate milky colour underneath in other places.  We are expecting him to lighten a lot.   It's really interesting because we don't know what his final colour/s will be.

[Kaytlin and Cooper]

Cooper started to get the silver, wiry hairs along her back and at the base of her tail around the same age. Its called Kemp I believe. Coopers chocolate siblings have turned rather silver (I like the term pewter Bonnie uses!). Cooper is still very chocolate, but is much lighter. Her fur is about 6 inches long, sometimes I think about cutting it all short to see what colour she will be! When i part the fur and look to her skin, the fur seems rather light milky chocolate with some grey....

[Jennifer,Chloe & Myla]

It will probably get lighter. I've seen a lot like this!

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

She's a chocolate, right? Chocolates usually fade to lighter chocolate, lavender, parchment, latte etc.  It is the color that changes the most over the doodle's life. It is an adventure all in itself.

[Sherri, Sophie, Winston, & Kitty]

You know what, her coat is changing colour. I examined her out in the sun this evening and could see patches that were lighter than the others. I looked her roots all over and they seem lighter. Oh well, I guess it was bound to happen but I was so loving this rich dark chocolate colour. Anyways, it's not the colour of the fur that counts - doodeliness is on the inside!

[Lisa, Daisy & Dexter]

Sherrie check this link about a discussion on this very thing...Daisy was dark chocolate as a pup, not anymore.

http://www.doodlekisses.com/group/chocolatedoodles/forum/topics/loo...

[Sherri, Sophie, Winston, & Kitty]

Thanks Lisa. I had forgotten about the chocolate doodle group. Well, Sophie was so dark chocolate she looked black when I got her - I picked her because of her dark fur figuring it woudl get lighter but would still bechocolate. I was hoping she'd be more like her dad -

 

But actually, from the looks of it, she might look more like Daisy. Not a bad thing at all if you ask me. Daisy is beautiful!

[Lisa, Daisy & Dexter]

As is your beautiful Sophie. Right now I am puppy sitting Daisy's actual sibling from another liter (she is 4 months old), Bella is like Daisy's twin , she will be just like Daisy at about 8 months I think. Here are a couple of pictures of the two of them at the gas station this morning - pretty darn cute. (it is so darn hot here had to open the windows so they could breathe while I pumped).

[Julie Mills]

My black mini-doodle has started to have white hairs in her coat too...and she is only 2 years old.  Her mom has a really mixed coat of grey, brown, and black and her dad is apricot.

 

I think you could expect your doodle to lighten up some.  I have seen other chocolates do this where it almost does look like highlights.

 

Still so cute and the best dogs around!