Depends, sometimes the coat will change, sometimes it won't. Can never tell for sure until it actually happens (and even then it might go back again).

Although it looks like that puppy is in a petshop....

ya, i saw at the petshop..my reliable pet shop too.

Doesn't mean they should be keeping the infant of a highly sociable animal that should be learning to play and interact with other living things in a glass box all day... no matter how reliable they are

yaya..i agree w this point...

Dear all,

I just join this forum today and i main purpose to join is to ask regarding a poodle. I found a poodle seller, its a blue color poodle. I had doing some online search regarding the seller, she is a breeder, a pup rescuer and she owns a pet shop as well... Because i only can go to view the puppy by next week, so i ask her to take some pic of the pup and email to me....

Can poodle sifus here please judge on this pup? Followings are her pic...



The seller is a breeder and oso she owns a pet shop, however, this poodle pup was her former customer's pup, so cant view the pup parents. By the way the pups are kept inside the playpens.

I not sure it is pure breed or not, from 2nd and 3rd pic, she seem like mixed with schnauzer or shih tzu......but she still looked cute though...can anyone please advise?

i lookin for this colour, may i know wic pet shop you saw this poo??

ya, she is from Puchong. Err...i juz know blue color look like black color..if this 1 is not blue, what color is it? and u sound like this seller has any problem?

Huey, u dun always scared ppl la. Haha

LOL...i'm scary meh? i dunno if u got my last sentence in FB chatbox yday..i was saying i paid rm100 deposit for a grey poodle then when it was time to pick up the pup, it died!! It already had 2 vaccinations. Of coz i dont wish for the same thing to happen to urs.

As for the puchong blue poodle, ive seen other blue ones before but this puchong one, the inner fur is a mixture of white, grey n black. I'm not sure if this is the true colour of a blue. The seller has no probs. She's a nice person. So it's up to u to judge the pup urself. Butttt i cant rber if she has more than 1 blue or not coz the one i saw is not like the 3rd n 4th pics. Maybe the hair grew longer n straighter...i'm not sure

Thanks for ur reply, according to the seller, she had 3 pups with same color to sell, but 2 were sold and left this 1..the color is not really important to me, as long as it is a healthy pup..but i not sure it is pure poodle or not..as i mentioned in my previous post..it looked like mixture of other breed like shih tzu or schnauzer..However, the seller told me that it was pure..

ya, Huey thanks for ur advise... hopefully all the best not only me even other ppl oso. yup, Huey u r right, some puppies after grow up thier hair r lightly different...actually I'm oso booking one grey poodle from the breeder but i'm cancell already coz i just saw one article from HK de..said that some unresponsible breeder which want to breed the rare color poodle ..they use a lot of method to breed that (mix)so..when puppies time is cute n the color r look special but after adult thier hair totally different dy.

Hihi signing in... lolx

Hey guys, i would like to ask, my toy poodle which is 5 years started having black or rather dark coloured patches on his skin. Is this normal due to old age ? Or is some kind of skin disease ? The pet shop who grooms his hair doesnt know. Thx

it could be the black skin disease, but its more common on pomeranian..
hmm able to snap a clear pic of the skin?
is ur dog a male or female?

This post has been edited by PinkInC: Dec 12 2010, 07:44 PM

Yea, is a male, cream colour. Hmm, ill upload the picture later when i have my cable. Is there any cure for black skin disease ? From what i saw, eating vitamin E supplements.

Usually dark patches on the skin will shop up once a hot-spot/fungus/cut/other injury has healed up, black areas of the skin of a dog is kind of like a scar in a way. Perhaps a picture of the patches would be useful to see what they look like.

In general if the skin is just a different color and the texture is the same (not flaky/hard/oily etc) it is probably nothing and could be related to age (although 5 years is quite young to start showing signs of old age). I wouldn't worry. If you see red patches on the skin or it seems irritated/itchy/spotty, you will probably need a couple of rounds of medicated washes, otherwise don't worry.
If his skin does look abnormal (apart from the color), especially if it is itchy, it could be a form of mange mite or a fungal infection.

The other alternative is that it is just a pigmentation change kick started by hormones as your dog ages. Again, this is nothing to worry about at all.

With a picture i might be able to narrow down the options a bit .

Black skin desease.... I found my MiKi's (sorry MiKi is a schnauzer, I juz tumpang here ) front leg also has a black color patch....but i search online, it stated that black skin desease will have hair loss at the black color area, but my MiKi's black patch area still have fur, juz like normal...juz the skin area is black color....everything is normal...

Edit: hmm....i think miki leg was due to cure from a small injury at her front leg as Divas mentioned....

This post has been edited by devil86: Dec 12 2010, 07:51 PM

Heres a picture of d patches


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Is it the skin that has the color or the coat? Hard to tell from the picture so thought i would double check.

Either way, it looks like just pigmentation change. Keep an eye on it just in case, if the skin starts to be abnormal in any other way than color or is itchy it would be worth getting a skin scraping done by a vet. They will be able to look under a microscope and check if there are an abnormal number or mites or any fungus lurking around.

As long as your dog doesn't show any other strange changes physically or behaviorally don't worry and just keep an eye on it.