We have a young male CH. Mar Haven's Last Cowboy Song and he has two black spots on the INSIDE of his left front leg. Never had that before....and it DOES look like two spots of paint or dye. This is the one place you would never expect to see that and we never have before. One of the spots is bigger and one is very small........too big to be a scar or anything like that. I don't recall him having that as a puppy....not until he was about 8 months old did we notice it. I can only guess that it is the same gene that puts black 'spots' on their tongue, and we DO have a lot of dogs with that particular 'mark'. Carolyn marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.Marhaven.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Windwalkergsds@xxxxxx To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 7:03 PM Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Spots on legs In a message dated 10/3/2008 7:10:46 PM Mountain Daylight Time, Scharo777@xxxxxxx writes: > But you should not condemn small round black spots as dye. Red > ones probably.:) But the black ones are some type of genetic patterning. The little spots can be caused by tick bites. For some reason, the site of the bite can change the color.....on black, the spots are seen as some white hairs. Nothing scientific here, just my observation. Jamie ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2008. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================