7-year-old dog suddenly starts turning white, she shows her precious pupper's progress into a sweet cookies 'n' cream doggo over only 2 years

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Blake Seidel • Managing Editor & Brand Manager
Nov 26, 2025 9:00 AM EST

Every little thing that happens to our doggo, we immediately expect the worst. You may call us crazy, but we go to the vet quite often just to be told that everything's fine. It's a bad habit, but we just want to make sure that there's not something we're magically missing that would result in a premature departure between us. So, needless to say, if our doggo randomly started growing white patches in their fur, we would also start freaking out! Especially if the dog was already 7 years old. There shouldn't be any surprises around that age!

It turns out that the reason is far less sinister (and infinitely more pawdorable) than the pawrent of this doggo could have guessed - her canine simply started to develop vitiligo. Vitiligo is a long-term condition where your skin and hair lose their pigment and turn completely white, but the good news is that not only is it pawsitively cute, it's also completely painless. 

Scroll down to see more pictures of this awwdorable pupper and her joyous journey to a perfectly impawfect dalmation!

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  • Over the course of two years, her pupper progressed from beautifully black to a sweet cookies ‘n’ cream doggo. Just when you thought it wasn't pawssible for dogs to get any cuter, they go and do something like this! We hope it hasn't affected her self-confidence, because she's beautiful on the inside and out!

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  • We hope it's just a coincidence that she looks sad in her final picture. Do you think the other dogs notice that she's different? We hope not. Do you think she notices that something is different? That's actually a very interesting question.

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    Roland 7800 I have vitiligo too (I am not a dog), but for other commentators there is no pain or discomfort, it's just when your skin loses its pigmentation and thus color. This also makes your hair follicles grow white wherever your "patches" of discoloration are.
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    Tinitio She's beautiful!
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    therearebirdshere Cutie!! U got a surprise. dalmatian!
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    woah_K32 Oh my gosh this is like set up as a funny joke that you got sold the wrong type of dog and they just painted her black and it's finally washing off. Haha she's so cute!
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    xxtatgirl93xx She turned into a wonderfully cute doggo from an already cute doggo!
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    Greyville27 Aw, I hope it's not affecting her quality of life. She is still as beautiful as ever in my eyes
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    kunaan Omgosh she's so pretty!
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    FullThrottleBandit All I see is that she's progressively getting more and more unique, and she was one of a kind to begin with. Truly a rare pupper
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    just-trying-2live What a little sweet cow
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    MilkMalon Have no idea what it is, hope it's not hurtful or will hurt her, but she is beautiful!
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    PattiiB Beautiful pup
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    Jope Of Otts The wonderful thing is that she's beautiful and already was. If it was a person they might feel self conscious but dogs don't
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    Davenporten Are you sure she wasn't a Dalmatian covered in ash to trick Cruella?
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    DazedandFloating She's turning into cookies n cream ice cream She is soooo cute.
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    Joan411 I thought Vitiligo affected skin not fur/hair. And I did not know it affected dogs. Wow. Is it painful at all? She looks beautiful though with markings like a spaniel...
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    Elis9797 Same as my dog. I got him from a shelter when he was an all black 6 years old belgian sheperd/border collie mix, and by the time he was 7, he had a big white spot on his muzzle. I took him to the vet because I was
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    scared something was wrong, but it turned out it was just vitiligo! Now he's 11 and he still has the same white spot that appeared years ago. He's unique and I wouldn't have him any other way
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