A Dog Helped This 8-Year-Old Learn To Love His Spots And It's Too Much

I can’t.

This is Rowdy with his mom, Niki Umbenhower. They live in Oregon. Umbenhower told BuzzFeed News that her old doggo has vitiligo.

Niki Umbenhower

And so does 8-year-old Carter Blanchard, who lives in Arkansas. Vitiligo is a benign condition which causes loss of skin pigment.

Stephanie Adcock

Since, she said, her son has become proud of the spots that once made him anxious. "Rowdy made him do a 180 with his confidence," Adcock said.

“Right around the time we discovered Rowdy, [Carter] looked at me one night and said your skin's boring because you don’t have vitiligo," she recalled.

I mean, look at these groovy patches.

White Eyed Rowdy / Via Facebook: rowdyumbenhower

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