got the same markings as my gsd cross (3/4 gsd) infact looks like her as a pup! she is 5 months now and going quite alot lighter on her head and ears and the gold is spreading wider and lightening as the longer adult hair comes through. i didnt actually realise gsd's changed colouring with age, i met a women in the park the other day with 5 year old, she said hers looked like mine as a pup and hers now is gold and blond all over with hardly any black, apparantly she didnt know they can change colour so dramitically either!