white on dogs? - Page 1

was scrolling through some kennels pages, came across one with a good breeding done, however out of nine pups, 5 of them have white patches on their chest, and one has white toes. what would make this happen?

 It is called the white spotting gene. There are many discussions on this, I found you one:

www.pedigreedatabase.com/german_shepherd_dog/forum.read

If those were very young puppies, the white (especially if surrounded by tan) can disappear as they mature or turn into cream or light tan. Chest, tip of the tail and toes are the last parts of puppies to get their color, so sometimes when they are born, the color didn’t get there all the way… I had a pappy in my previous litter with quite large, white looking patch on his chest; however by the time he was 10 weeks old the patche changed the color into tan with no sign of white. Some pics to follow...

White patch on a chest - Day 1



White patch on chest - 4 weeks old



White patch on chest - 10 weeks old

Echo is going on 2.5 years and she still has her white patch on her chest. I thought it would fade but apparently it's here to stay. She did not have white on her anywhere else and she was the only pup in the litter with this much white on her. Deb

One of the sable pups in my last litter had white toe tips on the rear feet at birth and now at nearly 13 weeks, it's almost completely gone.

all of my puppies where born with white on their noses and white toes some with chest patches. you can imagine our thoughts o great she was mated by another dog how did this happen she was never missing. well now that the puppies are 5 weeks it is all gone their noses are all black and their feet went to their colors includeing penciling on toes

Its common to a have a tiny amount of white spot on chest,its easy to see on  solid black dogs,sometimes it gets smaller as adults,i even see this sometimes in sables and black and tan pups

Recentley seen a litter of B/R (tan) all the pups have white feet chest markings and one has a tail marked like a foxes brush white, for the breeders sake i hope the colour does change. But think this is all becoming more aparrent because of the number of dogs with white markings being bred from, often the colour white would be stained with permanganat eof pot ash, so the colour wasn't noticed in the ring

I remember back when I was younger....white spots on German Shepherds was a sin.  Now we have come to except it as the norm.  And the spots keep getting bigger and bigger.  My mine is blown when I see panda Shepherds...pretty dogs...but clearly the white spotting gene is what they want.  There was a time when a patch of white on the GSD was frowned upon.  Now it seems like most dogs have it.  And if all else is good....then the white patch is a small sacrifice is the thinking now.  I think it is a long way from their heart....how ever care should be taken not to over look the obvious.....and that is to much white is to much white.  Only the breeder can make that decision.  Personally I do not want my GSD to have a foot ball sized white patch on her chest.  But I have had great dogs with white spots....just was careful how I bred them if I bred them.  Not something I wanted to be a part of my breeding program.  Now I see litters and white spots are common.  Same thing going on with horses........