Izzy is already starting to get white hairs in her black mask at 2.5 years old. They don't look grey though, or maybe I am in denial! She still looks like a puppy to me! She still has the skinny puppy body. You can't really tell from her pictures. I thought she was very young. My sisters chocolate lab started getting grey around her mouth (we call it her grandma beard) at 2, and my Mom's chocolate cocker spaniel started getting grey on his chin around 2 or 3 years old. My sisters other chocolate lab is almost 5 and has really no grey. I guess it all depends. I didn't want my Izzy to get the silver face so soon, but she has been thru a lot. Maybe that has something to do with it too!!!! She had a horrible first 10 weeks of life, has had 2 knee surgeries, and multiple growths removed from her body. She had what I called "itchy bumps" all over her body until she was a little over a year old. The vet never figured out what they were, but as long as I wash her with her special shampoo , she is fine. Luckily none of them were cancerous. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. She is getting the hairs right under her nose, right in the front on her black mask. I don't care if she turns all grey, as long as she lives a very, very long happy and healthy life.
he's always very dark masked. But I look back at his pics and realize that he too was greying by about 6 and was a very silver baby by the time he passed. Aren't our memories selective? lovicon
