How old were your dogs when...

[prechrswife]

How old were your dogs when they started graying around the muzzle? Max will be 5 years old in April, which is early middle-age for a basset, and he is already starting to go gray around his muzzle. Just curious.

[Glacier]

Franklin was 3 when he started to grey. He'll be 6 next month. Sleet is 12 and still has no grey on her!

[Uabassoon]

Franklin was 3 when he started to grey. He'll be 6 next month. Sleet is 12 and still has no grey on her!

Just like people! I started getting greys when I was 18

[chealy731]

my dog was abotu 4 years old...

[tatsxxx11]

Star's face is very light so it's hard to tell. Cody's very white too and never noticed any gray. But most Labs start showing some gray by 4 or 5, especially the black ones. Funny when inexperienced dog people see a dog with a bit of gray on their muzzle and say, "Oh, is he an old dog?"

[k9krazee]

Umm...Shadow was about 7 I think.

[sammy101]

Kodie is only 2 and has some on his chin. Lucy has no greys yet.

[Lady's Human]

Lady will be 6 in the sprin and has had some grey around her muzzle for a while now. She just looks like she got her chin too close to the milk she was drinking.

[Cincy'sMom]

Sadie has always had some white on her muzzle, but it has gotten more prominant inthe last year or so. She was 5 in October. Cincy is starting to get a few white hairs. She turned 4 in September.

[cyber-sibes]

Hmm, I can't tell, both of them are already white around the muzzle. Star will be 9 in Jan, though, and I see other changes in her face. That's funny, I was just wonderiing today if she would get more grey!

[prechrswife]

Thanks for the replies. I was thinking about this earlier today, and it dawned on me that I grew up with Australian cattle dogs (already gray) and my other childhood dogs were white or mostly white. I guess that's part of the reason I had wondered if this was early.

[Tollers-n-Dobes]

Tia started when she was 5, she just turned 6 in September and she's starting to get a lot of grey throughout her face. I'm not sure when Winston started as we got him this year and they others don't have any grey yet.

[.sarah]

Mandy I'm sure is graying, but she is white so you cannot see it. I do not remember for Buttons and Retread. Nova and Luka are still too young to gray.

[KYS]

I am not sure, but I think Sheba did not start getting grey till
around 7 and Rocky around 1 or 2.

[Chilli]

Frisk started greying when he was about 2 or 3... more toward 3. Ethan hasn't started greying yet.