{"id":7978,"date":"2022-03-25T06:38:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T06:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/what-is-the-reason-for-blue-eyes-in-dogs\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T06:38:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T06:38:36","slug":"what-is-the-reason-for-blue-eyes-in-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/what-is-the-reason-for-blue-eyes-in-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the reason for blue eyes in dogs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_17 counter-hierarchy counter-decimal ez-toc-grey\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"display: none;\"><i class=\"ez-toc-glyphicon ez-toc-icon-toggle\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/what-is-the-reason-for-blue-eyes-in-dogs\/#What_is_the_reason_for_blue_eyes_in_dogs\" title=\"What is the reason for blue eyes in dogs?\">What is the reason for blue eyes in dogs?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/what-is-the-reason-for-blue-eyes-in-dogs\/#Is_it_rare_for_a_dog_to_have_blue_eyes\" title=\"Is it rare for a dog to have blue eyes?\">Is it rare for a dog to have blue eyes?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/what-is-the-reason-for-blue-eyes-in-dogs\/#What_is_the_rarest_eye_color_for_dogs\" title=\"What is the rarest eye color for dogs?\">What is the rarest eye color for dogs?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/what-is-the-reason-for-blue-eyes-in-dogs\/#Are_blue-eyed_dogs_healthy\" title=\"Are blue-eyed dogs healthy?\">Are blue-eyed dogs healthy?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_the_reason_for_blue_eyes_in_dogs\"><\/span>What is the reason for blue eyes in dogs?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Blue eyes are found in a number of dog breeds, including Old English sheepdogs, border collies, and Welsh and Pembroke corgis, Irizarrypoints out. But for these breeds the blue-eyed trait is inherited as a recessive trait, meaning that <b>two mutated copies of the gene are required for the blue eyes to occur<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Is_it_rare_for_a_dog_to_have_blue_eyes\"><\/span>Is it rare for a dog to have blue eyes?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Blue-eyed dogs are rare. This distinctive look in one or both eyes is caused by a lack of pigment around the eye area, albinism, or a number of other genetic factors. Check out our article about how dogs get blue eyes, and the Dog Genetics website has more information about the genes that affect eye color.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_the_rarest_eye_color_for_dogs\"><\/span>What is the rarest eye color for dogs?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Rarest Eye Color in Dogs is Dogs with <b>green eyes are very rare. This unique eye color occurs through simply lucky genetics. Typically, a dog who has green eyes has the merle gene. This gene affects the way a dog&#8217;s coat and eyes look.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Are_blue-eyed_dogs_healthy\"><\/span>Are blue-eyed dogs healthy?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Genetically, blue eyes are typically no indication of health issues; however, dogs with genetically blue eyes have been linked to having hearing impairments, according to Washington State University.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table of Contents What is the reason for blue eyes in dogs?Is it rare for a dog to have blue eyes?What is the rarest eye color for dogs?Are blue-eyed dogs healthy? What is the reason for blue eyes in dogs? Blue eyes are found in a number of dog breeds, including Old English sheepdogs, border&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}