Colour of Nose Changed

[Melissa]

Chloe used to have a big, black beautiful nose.  It has just in the last 5 months changed to a lighter shade of brown. I spoke to my vet about it on her check-up and she said that because Chloe likes to dig (she stuffs her ball under logs in the summer or under snow in the winter) it has 'damaged' the pigments and caused it to change.  She said her dog's nose is now pink because of this.   Has anyone else had this issue? What did your vet say about this?  Should I be concerned? 

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Doing a search here on DK turned up a lot of discussions on this topic. I disagree with your vet; this kind of pigment change is very common in some of the doodle parent breeds, it's due to recessive color genes, it's not harmful and the dog didn't "damage the pigments". Here are the results of the search i did, you may want to read some of these discussions:

http://www.doodlekisses.com/page/search-results?q=snow+nose&cx=...

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Here are a few of the better discussions on this:

http://www.doodlekisses.com/forum/topics/has-anyone-s-doodle-nose-c...

http://www.doodlekisses.com/group/puppymadness/forum/topics/black-n...

http://www.doodlekisses.com/forum/topics/is-this-snow-nose

http://www.doodlekisses.com/forum/topics/big-black-button-nose-is?p...

And there are many, many more. As you'll see when you take a look, all of these dogs are not diggers and these color changes happened naturally. :) 

[Melissa]

Oh thank goodness!!   Thank you for finding these Karen :)   Much appreciated.