BEFORE AND AFTER - MORE COLOUR CHANGES

COLOUR CHANGE - DILUTE CHOCOLATE SABLE

At two months of age, Josie Hope's coat was a medium chocolatey colour with plenty of white. By 5 months, the coloured portions of the coat had
softened to rich caramel with grey-brown fringes. The closeup photo of her face shows a rosy-beige nose with a distinct lavender hue paired
with pale amber straw-coloured eyes. Her eye rims, lips and pawpads are the same rosy beige as her nose. Josie Hope is a dilute chocolate Sable.

COLOUR CHANGE - SILVER PARTICOLOUR

Bonnie, from the land down under, went through quite a dramtic colour change in her first two years of life. She started
out a very typical black and white particolour. As time went by, the black began to lighten to become a lovely shade of
medium/dark silver. At 2 years old Bonnie has very little residual black left in her coat.

COLOUR CHANGE - TRICOLOUR (Black,Tan & White)

When she was three months old, Gaia had some very intence tan points with full leggings in deep reddish gold. By six months, the tan
points in her face has softened to a slightly ligher shade while her leggings remained deeply coloured. At one year of age, face and body
points have softened even more, but there remains an eye catching fringe of deep gold at the edge of her chin and gold slippers on her feet.
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COLOUR CHANGE - CHOCOLATE SILVER (with mask)

Baby Mimi was a rich chocolate brown. Very quickly though, her coat started changing, getting progressively lighter and lighter.
At 18 months of age, the chocolate colour has silvered significantly to a pale silvery bronze. Something unusual about Mimi is that
she has retained darker colouring on her face and head. While a mask is not readily evident on a solid dog (ie:chocolate mask on a
chocolate puppy), it becomes more obvious in a Havanese like Mimi where the body colour silvers but the mask area stays darker.

COLOUR CHANGE - CHOCOLATE SABLE

Yogi started out a very dark Coca Cola brown. After just a few weeks, his undercoat started coming in a light creamy colour highlighting
his dark tipping. Very soon, it became obvious that Yogi was not the same as his other sable siblings when his pigment developped in a
dark liver brown to go with his bittersweet chocolate tipping. Yogi is a Chocolate Sable. Watch his colour progression in the collage above.

COLOUR CHANGE - RED SABLE

Fabienne Ernst of Begium sent in these pictures of a deep red sable Havanese. Oilily was born a very dark red sable similar to the
colour of an Irish Setter. Between 3 to 6 months of age, her baby coat went through a softer reddish gold phase before deepening again.
As an adult, Oilily's coat is a rich mahogany red. Some think she is chocolate which she is not. Her pigment is black.

COLOUR CHANGE - TRICOLOUR (Creeping Tan)

Thank you to Diane Schweiger for sending in these photos which may be an unusual Black/Tan variation that is sometimes known
as Creeping Tan in other breeds. Dogs with this variation typically display the traditional point pattern as newborns, but the tan
gradually expands or "creeps" as the dark coat retreats, similar to the development of the saddle tan variation but to a lesser degree.
This is Izzie. Along with the brilliant blossom of colour on her face, Izzie's ears are also lined in gold! Her family loves her tricolor-ness!

COLOUR CHANGE - CHOCOLATE PIED

Pretty as a picture. Piper is a rich chocolate brown with matching liver/brown pigment. Her colour has changed only slightly,
and as an adult, she remains a lovely dark brown. She is the grand-daughter of Chocolate Brindle Lego on Gallery 17.

COLOUR CHANGE - CHOCOLATE SABLE

Stella did not stay dark sable very long with her colour change starting within weeks of her birth. As she matured, the cream undercoat became
more prominent and the chocolate tipping gradually decreased. As an adult, Stella is a solid creamy colour with slightly deeper shadings on her back.
There is minimal residual brown fringing on her ears and tail. You would be hard pressed to guess that she was the adult match to her baby picture.

COLOUR CHANGE - SILVER PARTICOLOUR

Simon was born a typical black/white particolour. His family fully expected his colour/markings to remain the same, just as they had seen in their distinctly black and white Tibetan Terrier whose black and white markings have never varied. In Havanese, this is not always the case. The family
started noticing colour change shortly after Simon's arrival, then very progressively from there. The black became charcoal then silver;
eventually much of the body markings became dusky highlights on Simon's white coat, although his ear tips remained dark. What a surprise!