I recently was given a "Yellow" lab. She's a dark yellow/golden color. Her mom was chocolate, sire was same honey gold color as puppy. The puppy's eyes seem to be blue/green....is this normal? Would this be due to the chocolate genes?
2006-11-20 07:29:18 · 14 answers · asked by diney2u 3 in Pets ➔ Dogs
would she be technically considered "chocolate" due to her eye color?
2006-11-20 07:30:05 · update #1
I have heard it is acceptable by the AKC for the chocolate variation to have green eyes. I suppose you could register your pup as a chocolate, but I'm really not sure if the eye color automatically makes her a chocolate lab, alot depends on the color of her coat. That's a good question. If you don't find your answer on here try e-mailing the AKC website, it'll take a while but they eventually will get back to you with an official answer.
2006-11-20 07:37:43 · answer #1 · answered by dolly 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No she will be a yellow. Eye color should be brown or amber but other colors do crop up from time to time. Eye color isn't a big deal except in breeding or if in the conformation ring.
In order to produce chocolate or black there has to be that color somewhere on both parents sides. Also there are no "white" Labs.
2006-11-20 16:32:08 · answer #2 · answered by Great Dane Lover 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with the first poster. A puppies eyes will change colors a couple of times before the true eye color comes in. Even chocolate labs usually have brown eyes, just a lighter brown generally. My Lab puppy's Mom is a chocolate lab and dad is a black lab, mine is pure black. Got all of the black genes. She has blue eyes for a few weeks then changed to a bluish green. they are now a beautiful brown.
2006-11-20 15:34:22 · answer #3 · answered by MasLoozinIt76 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Your dog is fine. A yellow lab can have white, chocolate, black and yellow pups. My chocolate came from two yellows. In fact all twelve pups were chocolate. I knew both of the parents histories and there hadn't been a chocolate in the line for three generations. It happens
2006-11-20 15:53:20 · answer #4 · answered by st.lady (1 of GitEm's gang) 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Unless you know all the background of each dog in the lineage then you will never know for sure whats in there?
If the puppy is really young the eye color can still change. Dogs can have eyes that are each different color or one eye split down the center and different on each side.
Are you concerned for health reasons or just so you can say you have a "full blood" lab?
2006-11-20 15:35:46 · answer #5 · answered by luvmypupkins 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
i have a full blood chocolate lab and his eyes are gold so it's not just chocolate genes because my friends chocolate labs eyes are gold too.now his mom was yellow and had the most beautiful blue eyes i'd ever seen.
2006-11-20 15:59:40 · answer #6 · answered by wizardmerman 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Many young animals have blue/green eyes. They'll change and darken as she ages. She's probably far too young to be separated from her mother if her eyes are still that color.
2006-11-20 15:31:58 · answer #7 · answered by Sola_Balisane 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
yes. your dog is normal. i have a yellow lab too. same situation happened to me. it's normal. you know how people have colored eyes well so do dogs.
2006-11-20 15:38:50 · answer #8 · answered by Raine[: 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
normal variations chocolate refers to coat color not eyes
2006-11-20 15:31:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
yes, it's normal genes will do wonders. i had a Siberian husky w/blue eyes who had pups by a Rottweiler and when 2 of the pups had there own pups several of them had the Siberian husky's blue eyes.
2006-11-20 15:38:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋