This is what is happening to my chocolate Doodle...

[Linda, Webber and Seda]

[F, Calla & Luca]

She's "cafeing", new verb. But lots of chocolates get lighter. She's still beautiful though.

[Linda, Webber and Seda]

Both her parents are parchment/lavender.  I knew she was going to get light and I suspect she will  be lighter than cafe.  I love it!`

[Linda, Webber and Seda]

This is her grandfather.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Handsome guy.

[Dori & Rua]

He is stunning.

[Linda, Webber and Seda]

This is where we started.  Amazing the transformation.

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

She looks sooooo dark in this puppy picture that I assumed she was black.

[Nancie & Gracie Doodle]

She looks black in that picture!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I think the parchment/lavenders are gorgeous! She'll look stunning no matter what color she ends up!

[Linda, Webber and Seda]

She is the absolute sweetest doodle ever.  I don't care what color she is.... is seems like it changes every day!  By the time she is 3 I should know what color she is going to be.  Cool.

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

Was she black in that first photo?

We are changing here too.  Just yesterday I was digging in the undercoat because I swore I was looking at a gun metal grey or pewter shade down there?   Who knows?  A drastic difference in coat color.

So three?  Is that standard for a final guess at the coat color or just standard with your breeders pups?

[Linda, Webber and Seda]

She was a deep dark chocolate..never black.  The info I have read about chocolate doodles is that sometime between 1 and 3 years the transformation takes place.  She abruptly started getting light across her back at around a year.  Her legs, tail, head and ears are still dark.  I think the difference in the now and before pictures is the white balance setting on the camera.  I was just showing you how she was dark all over.  My black doodle, now deceased, started black and ended up silver.