black spots on tongues......normal?

[Kdragonfly24]

hi quick question- my rotti, payton, has black spots on his tounge. do some rottis have that? none of the rottis i have owned in the past ever had this.
i am not sure what to think about it.
thanks

[Bastianboy]

Mine does and so does his brother. Ours are very small just towards the rear of the tongue. For the longest time I thought it was a chunk of hair stuck there. He is from a championship line, so I assume that it can be fine in a line (I don't do conformation with Bastian, but his brother does).

[SABELLESMOM]

Really? I've never heard of this. Curious. (ya learn something new ...)

[laurlitt]

My boy Blaise has a black spot towards the rear of his tongue as well. It looks like he sucked on a pen and it leaked :) He's the only of our 3 rottweilers that have it...

[Canadianrotti]

Raelin has a black mark on her tongue as well, near the back and about the size of a dime. The roof of her mouth is also black, with small bits of pink near the edges of her lips/jowles.

Don't ask me how I know so much about the inside of my pups mouth!!!

[SABELLESMOM]

Originally Posted by Canadianrotti

The roof of her mouth is also black, with small bits of pink near the edges of her lips/jowles.

Well most of the mouth should be black (roof, lips, flews, and gums)or more black than not. Sometimes you see pink on the gums, like they have a wad of bubble gum in there. Hence the term "bubble gums." The less pink, the better.