Can toy poodles change color from brown to white?

My friends has bought a toy poodle which is brown in color. After a few month, it's color change to white! Do you know what's the problem is with the dog?|||nothing is wrong with the dog








tell your friend to call the breeder|||Has your friend taken this dog to a vet for a checkup as to why its coat is changing color?





In answer to your question, no brown poodles can not change to 'white.' However, two dilutions of the brown gene exist. One is Cafe Au Lait (think coffee with cream... but the dog will still be brown), or Silver Beige. Silver Beige is lighter than Cafe but still not WHITE. Both dilute colors take from 1 to 4 years to clear out.... this coat color lightening does not happen overnight.





With that said.... if the poodle does not have a brown pigmented nose, it is NOT a brown poodle. I find that lots of back yard breeders are totally clueless about poodle color genetics and are registering apricots as browns and everything else under the sun as brown.... So the first question is... has this dog seen a vet? Secondly, does it have a brown nose?|||I would have to see a picture of the puppy then and now but it sounds like a sable often mistakenly called a cafe au lait. As they get older they turn cream with or without a dark mask. I have had a few puppies that did this. There is nothing wrong with the dog. The breeder should have told your friend what to expect. These poodles are much prettier as puppies.|||Poodles are one breed that carry a graying gene. Dogs with this gene will be fully pigmented when they are puppies and start to "grey out" during adolecence. A chocolate poodle with the fading gene is called a "Cafe Au Lait".