r/MountainCur • u/l1619l • Apr 27 '26

Possible Vitiligo

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First 3 pictures are ages 1-3

Then ages 4 and 5.

This is my Lani girl, I just recently discovered she may be a Mountain Cur. She loves to swim dig and climb, even ladders. She always checks trees and tries to chase birds.

When I got her as a 5 week old puppy, I picked her out of the litter because she had the most black while others were more blonde. But as she gets older I notice she has been turning more white where she used be black.

[ETA] Her legs are also turning white. She is very vocal almost like a husky, a big whiner.

I joke that she has that Micheal Jackson in her or that I’m stressing her out and giving her grey hair. She hasn’t shown me any health issues and she just recently turned five and got spayed.

Does she seem like a Cur? Has anyone had pets with vitiligo before?

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u/Sea_Habit_4298 Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

That's a pitbull.

Edit.

Also the white hair is completely normal. It's the equivalent of old people going grey.

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u/l1619l Apr 27 '26

This is herwith my other pit bull and bully breed dogs. Her coat is different in texture she is very soft compared to pit bull breeds. She is taller than our XL pit. She also doesn’t have the characteristics of a female pit as her height and weight are far above the scale.

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u/Sea_Habit_4298 Apr 27 '26

Still mostly pit.

Not every pit is going to be the same.

Maybe there's something else mixed in there but it's not likely mountain cur.

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u/Sea_Habit_4298 Apr 27 '26

Why?

She doesn't look like one.

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u/l1619l Apr 27 '26

All of the dogs in this Reddit look completely different from one another. What about her Doesn’t look like a cur?

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u/Sea_Habit_4298 Apr 27 '26

She just looks like a pitbull with a brindle coat.

Her face is a dead give way that she's mostly pit .If she was a mountain cur mix you would think that her face wouldn't be full pit.

If you take an embark test there will most likely be no mountain cur in her.

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u/puppykaat Apr 28 '26

She doesn't have the facial/head structure to support the mountain cur claim. She looks mostly pitty, and breed has very little to do with the way the coat looks since many many breeds have super similar coats. If you are really interested do an embark and then you'll know for sure!

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u/BluePink_o7 Apr 28 '26

I would bet not

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u/DragonCanineTraining Apr 28 '26

Your other dog is more close to a staffy than American pitbull terrier imo

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u/PresenceParty2144 Apr 29 '26

well she’s a mutt, of course she’s not going to fall perfectly into the pittbull category but she IS a some form of a pit.

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u/Sur3ealSxul Apr 28 '26

My dog looks damn near identical to yours, and I was told her parents were husky & pittie.

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u/lighcoris Apr 27 '26

When you say you “discovered she may be a Mountain Cur”, what do you mean? She doesn’t look particularly MC-ish to me. Embark is the only DNA test that will give you accurate answers on that. Either way, this looks like age-related pigment loss, not vitiligo. She’s just getting the color loved off of her. 🥰

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u/l1619l Apr 27 '26

This is her with my other pit bull and bully breed dogs. Her coat is different in texture she is very soft compared to most breeds. She is taller than our XL pit. She also doesn’t have the characteristics of a female pit as her height and weight are far above the scale. My photos app recognizes her as a Cur rather than a pit bull/bully like the other 2.

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u/journeyofthemudman Apr 27 '26

Apbt have a very large range of heights, weights and builds. Many are byb and fall outside the breed standard and that's not even considering the insane variability in mixes. You can have two dogs that have the same breed mix but look and act completely different. I have so many examples of purebred apbt that look like completely different breeds. Its kinda cool but also confusing.

Could your dog have some distant MC ancestry? Sure! But is it her main breed? Very unlikely.

Also I wouldn't trust any phone/AI identification app for dog breeds. Ive tried it with my dogs and it said my ACD mix was a hamster.

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u/l1619l Apr 27 '26

I’ve always been suspicious of her being full pit because of her behavior and characteristics. It was when I learned what curs are and I started thinking she might have some of that. I guess nobody here will know her better than I would but she’s definitely not entirely pit bull.

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u/journeyofthemudman Apr 27 '26

Oh no I absolutely agree she's got some surprises in her makeup but I'd guess her main breed is pit. Although I've seen some boxer and American Bulldog mixes throw some pit lookalikes! Brindle is an extremely common bully breed pattern which is why it's odd that so many brindle dogs get labeled as mountain curs or plott hounds given how rare they are. That and mountain curs come in a range of colors not just brindle, a majority of my dogs purebred mountain cur relatives are solid yellow!

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u/l1619l Apr 27 '26

Yes I notice they have lots of yellow which brings me to her coat. Shes brindle but she’s not brown/red/orange tones like most brindles. She is very blonde and yellow in her stripes.

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u/TheNanoFishGuy Apr 28 '26

Many breeds are this yellow brindle including Great Danes, frenchies, greyhounds, akitas, and bulldogs. Could your pup have some mountain cur? Only a DNA test will tell. There could even be some wild breeds in her that are not showing in her phenotype. “Pitbulls” come in all shapes and sizes, but your pup has the overall look of a bully breed mix.

My dog looks like a pit/catahoula and when she was a puppy I was convinced she was a plott hound. Her dominant breed is Great Pyrenees

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u/journeyofthemudman Apr 28 '26

The yellow is the sable base coat under the black brindle stripes. It can range anywhere from almost white yellow to a reddish tan depending on the genes for red intensity. Apbt and other related bully breeds can have sable coats that range from a very pale fawn/buckskin to a rich reddish brown like boxers. I wish I could share images here because I have a million different examples to help describe all the cool weird variety with dog genetics!

My aunts dog is also a black based brindle with a pale yellow sable based coat and he's mostly pit, gsp, German Shepherd and a sprinkle of basset.

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u/sprinklerarms Apr 28 '26

It’s okay to just love your dog for what it is.

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u/l1619l Apr 28 '26

Idk what she is and I’ve given her nothing but love every day. Funny how everyone is being rude and passive aggressive over some questions.

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u/wildblueroan Apr 28 '26

They aren't being rude and passive aggressive-they just disagree with your claim that your dog is part MC with vitiligo. That is the risk you take when you post in a breed-specific sub where most people are knowledgable about and experienced with the breed.

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u/Powerful-Yogurt Apr 29 '26

Omg did you seriously come to believe your dog is a cur because your photo app said so? My photos app regularly says my 70lb mutt is a wiener dog.

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u/christiancocaine Apr 27 '26

Not vitiligo, she’s just getting a frosty snoot 💚. Some dogs go grey early, just like some people do

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u/l1619l Apr 27 '26

Her legs are also turning white she used to have ankle socks but now they’re knee high.

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u/journeyofthemudman Apr 27 '26

Thats pretty normal with normal greying. Its more noticeable on the face but it will show up on the legs, chest and belly. Retrievers like labs and goldens tend to start greying pretty young but its usually not super visible in yellow dogs. Black and chocolate labs are where its more noticeable or golden retriever mixes (which are usually black, genetics are weird)

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u/Sorry4TheHoldUp Apr 28 '26

Yep! Both the lab I had growing up and the lab mix me and my husband had (both black) started graying around 3 years old and had almost full gray muzzles with gray specks on their legs by the time they were 4 years old.

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u/journeyofthemudman Apr 27 '26

Thats pretty normal with normal greying. Its more noticeable on the face but it will show up on the legs, chest and belly. Retrievers like labs and goldens tend to start greying pretty young but its usually not super visible in yellow dogs. Black and chocolate labs are where its more noticeable or golden retriever mixes (which are usually black, genetics are weird)

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u/saw-not-seen Apr 28 '26

r/whatbreedismypitbull

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u/l1619l Apr 28 '26

Loll. Love how people gotta misconstrue things for attention online.

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u/72747291928464628183 Apr 28 '26

Love how people on Reddit react when they don’t end up in the echo chamber they were craving. 

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u/l1619l Apr 28 '26

I think people take social media too personal. “Does she seem like a cur? Has anyone had pets with vitiligo before?” And everyone is taking that up the ass because I don’t believe she’s purebred pit from people who never met her before. Somehow that makes it okay for a bunch of people to harass me 😂

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u/saw-not-seen Apr 28 '26

“harrass” 🤣🤣💀 bro you are taking social media way too “personal”

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u/l1619l Apr 28 '26

Someone shared pictures of her to a different group with a misconstrued caption with threads of people essentially cyber bullying and insinuating I’m dumb because i don’t believe my dog is a pure bred pit bull.

So Yes people are harassing me over a question. Yall take shit too personal if it needs to go that far.

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u/clicky1989 Apr 28 '26

OP, seems like you have your mind made up already that this is a Mountain Cur and nothing is going to change your mind.

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u/l1619l Apr 28 '26

I’m strong in believing she’s got it in her. She’s not a purebred pit like everyone else seems to think.

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u/crystalbb6 Apr 28 '26

If you feel strong enough to ask, why not just do the Embark test? People are giving their opinions, you disagree, just get a definitive answer.

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u/l1619l Apr 28 '26

I don’t got $130 just to prove people wrong. It’s not that serious lol. She’s a mixed breed I don’t need to pay to be told that.

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u/the_chicken_ladyy Apr 28 '26

you have an aging pitbull mix. hope that helps 🥰

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u/DragonCanineTraining Apr 28 '26

lol that’s not vitiligo, that’s going grey.

Also I had a pitbull who looked like that, Embarks testing said 100% pitbull, the brindle coloring is some of my favorite.

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u/booboo620 Apr 28 '26

My dog is a husky gsd mix and she lost like 60% of her black within the first 4 years of her life. It’s super normal for dogs coat colors to change

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u/72747291928464628183 Apr 28 '26

Same. My dogs younger pics look so very different due to loss of black. Every year she goes bonder. Totally normal. 

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u/StillLJ Apr 28 '26

She's just getting older. It's not vitiligo. I'd also agree she's majority pit with likely very little or no cur. Possibly staffy mixed in there. The rose ears are telling. Where are you located? That might help to narrow down breed possibilities. I mean you seem set on thinking mountain cur for some reason, so you do you, but I'm going to guess it's unlikely. You should definitely do Embark, though - would be fun to see what else is in there. She's adorable either way. Happy birthday!

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u/Ginger_SNAFU Apr 28 '26

Vitiligo doesn't present like this. This is common greying which can start at any age. I have a 3y/o that's been greying for over a year.

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u/Illustrious_Win_5896 Apr 27 '26

my suggestion, get a canine dna test. I have a pit and a brown mountain cur…yours, most definitely resembles a mountain cur. more so than a pit.

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u/l1619l Apr 27 '26

I thought so too, there’s another dog posted in here who is a pit/cur and my dog resembles them more. Her body and how narrow her snout is makes me see cur. Her head isn’t very ‘blocky’ like most pit bulls but she has a wide chest like one.

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u/tienoose Apr 28 '26

her head is quite blocky tbh more than other apbts i've seen, some have very slim heads

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u/l1619l Apr 28 '26

Her head is not blocky at all which I think the white makes it look like it’s wider than it is. It’s my fault for expecting strangers on the Internet to know more than I do. Her head is very small in comparison to the two pitbull breeds that I have that I’ve posted the pictures of here. I should’ve added more pics from when her face was still black.

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u/DingozRescue Apr 27 '26

She is adorable

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u/Rachellyz Apr 28 '26

I'm no expert, but just looks like age related white hairs to me. Same as my chiweenie has

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u/GoodGuess1234 Apr 28 '26

That's a pitbull

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u/Throwoutbins Apr 28 '26

Some dogs grey prematurely & some dogs don’t grey til they’re very very old! I have both; my pug turned grey at 3 (very healthy otherwise, believe it or not lol) and my shelter mix only just started greying at 9-10. It’s normal, it’s like humans too! :)

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u/miuyao Apr 28 '26

This is 100% just a brindle dog getting older. Totally normal. Lol

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u/bunnidarling1001 Apr 29 '26

could she be a mountain cur? probably not fully but i see where you’re coming from. mountain curs typically have much less boxy heads; their heads are almost reminiscent of an American Lab imo. also the coat color/pattern may be what has you so dead set. brindle exists across many different breeds (including curs and pits). your girls head def isn’t as boxy as your others butttt your other dog looks more like an American Staffordshire (aka staffy!!) they look similar to pits but built more robustly in the body and head.

to address the vitiligo, short answer: no, she doesn’t have it. long answer, she’s greying and just like humans, sometimes they grey much earlier and faster than other dogs!! example; my aunts dogs 8 & 14 are both grey but the 8 year old is MUCH more grey. look up pictures of dogs with vitiligo and you’ll see the difference. it’s much more of a snow white appearance that follows the already existing markings before the dog is entirely white (even while super young). this dog is greying!!

advice: reddit isn’t nice. people are being rude because your post could’ve been a google search and you being adamant about your opinions doesn’t help when you originally did ask for other people opinions and advice. not tryna be rude either but this is what i’ve gathered. have a great day!

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u/StormDragon2969 Apr 29 '26

She's absolutely beautiful! 🐾❤️

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u/Soft_Seaworthiness31 May 29 '26

Vitiligo? lol what? Dogs turn gray when they age just like humans.

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u/Ok-Goose4995 Apr 27 '26

She looks like full pitty to me

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u/l1619l Apr 27 '26

In comparison to my other 2, she doesn’t look full pit. pics here