nose color changes

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    nose color changes

    I've noticed it more in pics of maamutes and huskies.

     

    Our Mahalo is a malamute mix and Ialthough it changed awhile ago i'm curious. When we adopted her at 10months old her nose was black. now its gort a stripe down the middle. lol

    Before:

     [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v704/xVelvet_FuzzButtx/3%20Dog%20Night/e50df5ee.jpg[/IMG]

    After: 

    [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v704/xVelvet_FuzzButtx/3%20Dog%20Night/DSC02325.jpg[/IMG]

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    very common in the northern breeds...it's affected by the sunlight/daylight hours. Lighter in winter/fall and darker in spring/summer. My Red & White hounds are similar.

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    thats realy cool to know!

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    That happened to our late Charlie(lab mix).We got him at 6months and his nose was black. As he got older, it turned pink.I thought it was my imagination playing tricks on me.

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    Maggie's nose does the same thing.  Brown in the summer, pencil eraser color in the winter.  She's a Finnish spitz mix. 

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    We had a Siberian/GSD whose nose did the same thing.  The black part would also get lighter.  Each winter, the pink stripe down the middle of his nose would get bigger and take longer to darken up in the summer.  Eventually, his nose was grey with a light pink stripe up the middle.

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    It's called a "snownose", my Husky/Mal. mix has a pink nose at this point......

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     There is also a reaction for some dogs to eating out of a plastic bowl.  There is an actual name for it, but I can't remember right off hand.  I was told by a breeder to never feed out of a plastic bowl.  I think it was a lab breeder that told me, not sure.

    Dawn

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    I have heard the term "butterfly" nose.  It is conformation fault in some breeds (even disqualifying if I remember correctly: usually in dogs for which the standard calls for black noses)

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    You have a " Snownose".  Our Siberian Huskies nose start to turn pink once the cooler weather is on its way.  I tend to use the snownose as a sign to start pulling out the coats and sweaters