|Barked: Tue Jul 10, '07 2:33pm PST |
|There are many reasons why a dog's nose can change color. Some dogs get a color change during the winter, and it returns to black in the summer. They call this "snow nose".
Other causes for losing pigment in the nose can be:
- The dog having poor pigment to begin with which fades over time, as they get older (usually the dog will not have pitch-black pigment to begin with.)
-Feeding from plastic bowls can sometimes cause pigment loss, switching to ceramic or stainless steel may reverse it.
-Vitiligo, a pigment disorder which causes white/light-colored patches, can cause the nose to turn lighter.
-Hypothyroidism can sometimes cause loss of pigment and nose color change.
Ginger's nose started changing color one year in the summer, it used to be PITCH black and it slowly changed to a sort of reddish-pink/brown color. I changed her to stainless steel bowls, added kelp to her diet (can sometimes help) and it kept changing until it was all that color. Ginger's vet said it could have been caused by some sort of infection. Her nose never changed back, and it now matches her fur color.
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