What does it mean when a dog has one brown eye and one blue eye?
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What does it mean when a dog has one brown eye and one blue eye?
heterochromia
What does it mean when dogs have 2 different colored eyes?
Heterochromia
Does a blue eye mean a dog is blind?
Blue eyes does not indicate that your dog will eventually go blind, deaf, or have any other genetic defects. Variation in pigmentation in the iris can occur for varying reasons, and doesn’t necessarily point to health concerns.
Why does my dog have one blue eye and one brown?
Heterochromia is caused by a lack of the pigment melanin in all or part of one eye. In dogs with heterochromia, the lack of melanin causes one of their eyes to appear blue or bluish-white. Heterochromia in dogs is often hereditary, meaning it is passed through their genetic makeup.
What does a blue eye mean in a dog?
But for a dog that doesn’t naturally have blue eyes, a blue eye could indicate a disease called interstitial keratitis, a corneal inflammation in which a bluish-white film appears over the clear window of the eye. It is caused by the same virus that causes infectious hepatitis, according to WebMD.
Are dogs with two different colored eyes deaf?
Blue eyes does not indicate that your dog will eventually go blind, deaf, or have any other genetic defects. Variation in pigmentation in the iris can occur for varying reasons, and doesn’t necessarily point to health concerns.