I am talking about changes in old age not their natural colouring.Why doesn't a black dog turn white lol?
2007-02-01 09:27:22 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
my mums horse she had when she was little lives at a sanctuary around the corner from my house and it used to be black and is now compleatly white it's 47years old
2007-02-01 09:44:01 · answer #1 · answered by gizzmo85 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well, i have a black dog. she's starting to turn old, and is getting some grey hairs. im thinking that if dogs lived longer, they could eventually turn all grey. but of course, dogs and almost every animal dont live as long as humans.
2007-02-01 09:30:38 · answer #2 · answered by Chelly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They quite often do. Generally, they don't live long enough to get to a point of all gray fur, but there are cases of various animals going completely gray. An Irish Setter I once owned went completely gray around his muzzle. Found in a rescue situation, we estimated his age to be about 18 at the end. Had he lived longer, I'm sure all his red fur would have certainly followed.
2007-02-01 09:37:27 · answer #3 · answered by Fin 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you've ever had a dog with dark fur you'll see that they do go grey round the muzzle, sometimes white, and around the eyes and ears. All our dogs did. Our cats had too much white on them to see but a darker one we had also showed a few grey hairs around the chin and eyes.
2007-02-01 09:37:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
they do go grey. I guess they don't live long enough to go completely white.
I had a 16 year old Pit Bull who was red when he was born.
Before he died his head was completely grey and also from his paws all the way up his fur had turned grey.
2007-02-01 10:14:06 · answer #5 · answered by thatswhattheytoldmelastnight 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some do - Some black poodles will turn completely grey in old age.
Most dark haired dogs muzzles and eye brows change grey.
2007-02-01 09:32:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
particular they do. I went for a walk in the park with my puppy goat Gary and he observed what each and all of the teenage goats at present might call a 'super greater healthful goat'. She substitute into extremely incredibly if I do say so myself. anyhow, while Gary observed her he have been given all shy and he began blushing sooo lots his entire face went crimson and that i in spite of the undeniable fact that there substitute into something incorrect with him!! So I rushed him to wellbeing facility and that they simply observed as me loopy for taking a goat to a wellbeing facility not a vet.
2016-10-16 10:23:32 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They do. Perhaps not as completely as humans, but they definitely go grey.
2007-02-01 09:30:55 · answer #8 · answered by Hello Dave 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They do get grey hair especailly on facesbut not so much to body hair
2007-02-01 22:15:34 · answer #9 · answered by frankturk50 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they do get some grey but not completely
2007-02-01 10:19:53 · answer #10 · answered by rose_merrick 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋