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Thanks for the info! I have been wondering about that lately also because Jenny's nose seems to be turning from black to something else. Not sure if it is liver or pink, its really strange. Is it normal for them to change? Not a big deal as I won't be showing her, but I am a little disappointed.

Really.... Does she have the black eye rim's (eye liner)? If she does and her nose pigment is changing I would give her sea kelp pills. We had to do that with our Amstaff Cherry. Here's the before (about 6-8 months old) and after (about 1.5 yrs) picks. Huge difference. I would still look into why that would be happening. Black from pink or liver sounds suspicious.

 

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Sam I Am, i have seen people with black poodles at shows use a black magic marker to put on a pink spot on the nose from a scar.

Oh ya...we used to use the "dos nose" I think its called, black color for Cherry's nose before show's. For Cherry though, she was still getting her pigment on both eyes and nose (slowly) . Thats why we gave her the sea kelp because its supposed to improve the pigment. It worked as you can see but Im not sure what to think about Jenny's nose starting to turn lighter. Her eye liner (so I call it) is completely filled in and her nose had full pigment before.

Im going to try and look online a little later. See what I can find about that.

 

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Here's a link to yahoo answer's. I don't how much is acurate but doesn't hurt to read it.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080915051055AAleazF

 

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I forgot someone ...I think Randi at Bay Area Poodle rescue told me that Poodle's can get a sun burn on the nose. She said to use regular childrens/baby sunblock.

If it were me I would try the sea kelp and see if you can get the pigment back. It could take a good month before you really see any improvement but Cherry's breeder swears buy it. Amstaff's have a tendancy to not have full pigment when born or it doesn't fill in completely. The sea kelp kick's booty. lol

However, Jenni's adoarable either way but that black nose is so pretty.

 

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Thanks for all the info ladies. I will try the sea kelp and see if that helps and if not maybe it will come back in the spring. Do I need to go to a health food store or can I find the pills at the drugstore?

I think we got our's at target but its been so long now Im not certain. You never can go wrong at the health food store. I hope it works for Jenni.

 

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It was a sharpie.

If you go to a show you can pick up the nose black there. I wouldnt use a marker on my dogs nose but we did feel in a few spots on our Amstaff for show's with the nose black. My husband says it was called de nose nose or something like that ???

Im sure you can buy the same nose black stuff online. Maybe try pet edge or kingwhole sale. Id say anywhere that carries chalk/powder for dogs, show supplies etc.

Are you filling it in for a show, pics or something? I would do the sea kelp regularly if a dog is lacking pigment and the nose black just when needed for maybe pics, show's etc.

If you get some de nose nose (nose black stuff), I can tell you the proceedure that worked best for applying it. Since naturally a dog will lick the nose right after applying it.