Brown Australian Shepherd Puppy Blue Eyes

If your puppy will have brown eyes permanently it could take up to 12 weeks before they are fully matured or right around when she turns three or four months old.

Brown australian shepherd puppy blue eyes. Before you panic heterochromia isn t an illness. From the beginning the grayish blue shade was fairly dark compared to the light shade of a dog who will have blue eyes. Red merle with copper points and one brown eye and one blue eye blue merle with copper points with blue eyes also great variety is seen in the aussie s eye color and they are often heterochromatic. Aussies can have any mix of eye colours as well as a mix of colours within each eye its common in the breed.

All red and red merle dogs have liver or brown noses eye rims and lips. This dog stands between 18 and 23 inches tall and can weigh around 40 to 65 pounds. For example a blue eyed aussie may have brown highlights and vice versa. Blue merle australian shepherds may have stunning blue eyes brown eyes amber eyes or even one eye that is blue and one eye that is brown.

So one of your australian shepherd puppy s eyes can be a piercing. His eyes are beginning to change from the dark grayish blue of early puppyhood to his adult color of medium brown. An early nickname for the breed was ghost eye dog. Or use the search box in the upper right or the menu to the left to find information you want on eye issues in australian shepherds.

He usually has the following features. Double layer coat that is usually medium in length with somewhat of a wavy. However marbled blue eyes are a lot more common with blue merle australian shepherds. It does make the pupils look a different size to each other they arent.

The guide to blue merle aussies. What it means is that your aussie puppy can have different colored eyes. Blue eyes in aussies. Dogs with blue eyes while brown is the most common eye color found n dogs some breeds are known for producing bright blue tones.

Click to e mail one of our volunteer experts with eye disease and defect questions. Having blue eyes does not mean a dog is blind. This black and tan aussie pup is 6 weeks old. My pup was the same at 4weeks 1 blue one brown eye.

Long tail that is sometimes docked. Be aware that eye color can change in the australian shepherd breed at any time during the dog s life so just because a puppy goes home with you at age 6 or 8 weeks with blue eyes does not mean they will not turn green or brown or one of each the following week or at some point during the dog s life.