Two-Colored Eyes?

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First, I want to apologize if someone else has already posted on this, I am new to this forum and haven't yet had a chance to read it all yet. Smile

Anyways,
I was wondering if it's common/uncommon for the OES to have two different color eyes? Our girl has one brown eye & one light blue eye! I really hope this doesn't have anything to do with the chances she'll develop cataracts.....

Is this just something that happens as often as in the general animal kingdom, or if this is something strange and rare....
Would this have any effect in showing? I'm not sure if we'd actually show her or not, she is "show quality" & her maternal grandmother was an award-winning dog! Smile

Does anyone else out there have an OES with two different colored eyes?
Thanks for the help! Smile
Yes it's quite acceptable . Dudley (at the bridge now) and Dutch both had/have a brown and blue eye.I have read that in the way back when days this was thought to be good as it was thought it meant they had 2 brains Laughing
its also called wall eyed and is in the standard.
Yes, as the others have said it's very common and perfectly acceptable. My female has one of each too! Both my males have all brown eyes. Very Happy
My Violet has one blue eye and one brown eye...they are very pretty.
Our Blue has one of each hence his name and the reason my son picked him.

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I have read that in the way back when days this was thought to be good as it was thought it meant they had 2 brains
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Or does it mean 1/2 brain each? Let Me Think About That
My Theeps had one of each, and the blue one in particular was very striking. No, it didn't mean anything scary...both eyes were just fine. (Lots of people assumed his blue eye was blind, but that was not at all true.)

He seemed to enjoy using that eye to stare directly at people, and it was quite striking and hard to miss.

A bonus.......an old friend of my parents' who tended to visit too frequently and too long noticed his eye early on and insisted it was a sign of evil (and not the good puppy kind). She decided to stop visiting our house completely as it freaked her out.

Saved me from dozens of hours of coming up with excuses why she couldn't visit or why we were too busy/out/whatever to have her over!

Wink Wink Wink
My Phoebe is a wall eye (one brown; one blue). The vet told me that it is very common in the herding breeds.
Baloo has one blue and one brown. The blue eye is what people notice first 90% of the time. I have had LOTS and LOTS of people ask me if he was blind in that eye..... Rolling Eyes

I love his blue eye. If he didn't have I would still love him all the same... but it is very striking to look at.
My beautiful Drezzie girl was a wall eye too. Here's a bigger picture of my avatar. Even though it is very common in sheepies, it must not be common in most other breeds because that was always the first thing people noticed about her - that is, after she would get done kissing them to death!
Pirate is a wall eyed pup too. I love it! I had hear there is a folklore that walleyes can only see good though the blue eye, and only evil through the brown eye. That way they know how to steer their masters.

Lizzie has brown eyes, but has blue dot on one of them Its precious.
duffy has 2 blue eyes but you can't see them
Didn't I read on here that the original OES was Wall Eyed Pete?

Another "old wives tale" I've heard about the Wall Eyed is they where desirable because they felt that if one eye got deseased the one of the other color would not.

I always say with Violet it is like having two dogs in one...it depends on which side of her you are standing, the blue eyed side or the brown eyed. Laughing
Here is my 116 pound blue and brown eyed monster. I don't know, but I love the two colored eyes and find it very interesting. We call his blue eye, his wild eye! Although I never thought much of brown eyes, as I am blue eyed as is my whole family and husband... that is until I got Tyler, his brown eyes were so expressive and so beautiful, I now love brown eyes, they are so warm and lovely...


Tagg as Americas Next Top Model, with one of my knit creatations!


He was asleep in this photo and I set up my focus and then called his name and this is the shot. I love it.


This is where you can see the "wild" blue eye. Sometimes it does look a little wild...

It is not uncommon for an OES to have one of each. Where it get to be "Undesirable" is when they are very light brown or yellow/brown in color.
We refer to Cosmo giving us the "evil eye" when he looks at us with the brown eye... his blue eye is just pretty, but when you get the "brown eye"... you know you're in trouble.

Roxie has two very dark brown eyes and she just gives us the "sad eyed" look... like "ooohhh, won't you play with me now?" or "come on, I really need another chew toy.."
Wow, I love everyone's pictures!

I didn't realize that it's common for herding dogs in general to be wall-eyed (I didn't even know that it was called that!) Growing up, we had a Shetland Sheepdog- but he just had 2 brown eyes... It is great to know that our OES. Bailey, shouldn't have any problems with her eyes because of the two colors!


I'm learning a lot from you great folks! Thanks for all the input! Smile
Willow has one blue (china) and one brown eye, I just love it, but does anyone know why this happens??

Debsx
contrary to how I hear the term used (one blue and one brown eye) wall eye in an online medical dictionary refers to:

wall eye, walleye
the irregular distribution of melanin in a blue iris. Seen commonly in dogs with merle coat color and Siberian huskies. Called also heterochromia iridis. In humans, the term refers to exotropia, or divergent strabismus. See also walleye.

Now how do they get one blue and one brown eye?
Heterochromia is the presence of different colored eyes in the same person.


Heterochromia is uncommon in humans, but quite common in dogs (such as Dalmatians and Australian sheep dogs), cats, and horses

apparently eye color is a polygenic issue - hey Kristine!! want to explain that to all us social scientists etc.?

kerry wrote:
Heterochromia is the presence of different colored eyes in the same person.


Heterochromia is uncommon in humans, but quite common in dogs (such as Dalmatians and Australian sheep dogs), cats, and horses

apparently eye color is a polygenic issue - hey Kristine!! want to explain that to all us social scientists etc.?


I can explain polygenic - that just means that a collection of genes controls a certain trait: CHD is thought to have a polygenic mode of inheritance, for instance. Traits like these can be hard to control. Do we know for sure eye color is polygenic?

My obedience instructor is a (population) geneticist and every time she starts talking color I zone out and she has to kick me Laughing Laughing Laughing I'll try to stay awake next time.

All I know from a practical point is that breeder X had been breeding OES for 25-30 years and had never bred to (I think) or produced (I know) a single blue eye - and that was the way she liked it - when she outcrossed a brown eyed bitch to a brown eyed dog (with a HEAVILY white factored mom - I can't recall her eye color) and produced first one male with two blue eyes and then a "wall-eye" in a repeat. Remaining 8 siblings all brown eyed.

Breeder and I both vehemently hope she never produces another one, so I probably should be working on understanding the hereditary aspect of eye color. Laughing Laughing

Four brown eyed sisters of blue eyed boys have been bred (they went to different people - very nice litter), all bred to brown eyed dogs, producing litters of 8,6,5,5 respectively and not a single blue eye among them as far as I know (though some of the browns are a little light...hm. Not good)

Wall-eyed male has been bred once, to a nicely pigmented, dark eyed bitch and all three get are brown-eyed. Now to sit down and crunch some numbers when I have some time. Also get some more background eye color on various sires. Could be an interesting project!

And, yes, of course, blue eyes are perfectly acceptable and it's just a personal preference thing. Laughing

Another interesting case is Deb's Lizzie. Not only does Liz have that blue dot in her eye, but her sister Maggie is wall-eyed. Being rescues, that's all we know however.

Kristine

kerry wrote:
Heterochromia is the presence of different colored eyes in the same person.


Heterochromia is uncommon in humans, but quite common in dogs (such as Dalmatians and Australian sheep dogs), cats, and horses


I knew in a guy in high school like that. Total creep.

I'm not sure the eyes were at fault though.
Obe has One Blue Eye which is how he got his name OBE or Obe Bear of Evergreen either way OBE.
I have had a few OES with a blue eye and a brown eye,I think they are totally gorgeous!
One of my friends has a little boy who has a blue eye and his other eye is 3/4 brown and 1/4 green.like a pie chart.Its really interesting to me,everyone else thinks its weird.I just wonder what they will put on his passport etc?

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