If you MUST dye your dog's hair... A lot of kids dye their hair with jello. I would not use the sugar-free kind because artificial sugars can be toxic to dogs and you know they're going to try to lick it off. I'd also worry about getting it anywhere near the dog's eyes.
I don't think you can do much about the dark hair except perhaps change the tone of it a little. You can't remove the existing color without a bleaching agent like peroxide, which I think would be just too dangerous to use on a pet. So you would be adding a color on top of the existing dark color.
Funny this topic should come up tonight because I just told my hairdresser two hours ago that I'm going to stop having her color my hair because of the toxicity of the chemicals. A couple of years ago there was a study showing that hairdressers have a higher incidence of bladder cancer than the general population and linked the combination of dyes with peroxides to a carcinogenic chemical reaction. That's been running around in the back of my mind since I read about it. I don't think you want to expose your beloved pet to that kind of risk, let alone allergic reactions to dyes or just plain itching from dry skin.
Maybe you could settle for photoshopping color onto a photo of your dog? Come to think of it, I might give Tallulah a photoshopped dye job for Valentine's Day. |