Lemon Pupper — The pale 'lemon' (clear cream-yellow) | lemonpupr.com
Nose leather, eye colour, coat tone and teeth each settle on their own schedule between birth and two years.
At birth, almost nothing is final. Puppies begin with blue-grey eyes, and many show unpigmented 'butterfly' patches on the nose. Neither feature predicts the adult dog.
The nose moves first. Butterfly patches commonly fill in with dark pigment between 8 weeks and 6 months, so a patchy nose at eight weeks is a stage, not a verdict.
The eyes follow. Permanent eye colour is usually settled by 12–16 weeks, replacing the universal blue-grey of the first weeks of life.
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Teeth provide the calendar check. Puppies carry 28 deciduous teeth and grow 42 permanent ones, usually all erupted by 5–7 months — a hard, countable fact that anchors every other claim about a puppy's age.
The coat takes longest. In pale-coated breeds such as Poodles and Spaniels the tone can keep deepening through the first 1–2 years, so a near-white puppy may finish as a clear lemon adult.
Used together, these windows turn colour guesses into a schedule: genotype first, then nose, eyes, teeth and coat in order. The genetics chapter explains the genotype step, and the breeds page shows which standards register the result.
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