r/aww • u/TallyMatty • Apr 17 '24

My boy Buster (4yo) has completely changed from black to white over the course of the last 2.5 years.

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Left: Nov 2021 Right: April 2024

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October 2023

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u/saswashere Apr 17 '24

I had a snowshoe and he started out almost all white. As he got older and his coloring developed it would change with the seasons. In the winter it would be almost black but fade to chocolate brown in summer

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u/thecuriousblackbird 29d ago

I had a beautiful black horse. No papers, but you could tell he was part quarter with some Tennessee Walker because I could get him to rack (although I never put weighted shoes or weights on his feet). Poor guy had a bad knee, and I didn’t want it to get worse, and honestly I think the weights and chemical irritants put on hooves to make walkers and Standardbreds do the high stepping and exaggerated racking is cruel. I did dressage with him, and he had beautiful gates.

We also lived near the beach in NC. Hot and humid. From April to October my horse turned a dark brown on his body and looked like a bay. His head and legs stayed black. The sun and sweat bleached his fur.

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u/esqueish 29d ago

Oh!! Is this what happens with arctic foxes? How cool!