{"id":72811,"date":"2009-12-09T10:11:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T15:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/askthevet.smartpak.com\/?p=674"},"modified":"2009-12-09T10:11:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T15:11:22","slug":"why-are-most-dogs%e2%80%99-eyes-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/72811","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Most Dogs\u2019 Eyes Brown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>My daughter wants to know why most dogs\u2019 eyes are brown. TH, Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dear TH,<\/p>\n<p>For help with this question I turned to my ophthalmology instructor in vet school, Ralph Hamor, DVM, MS, Diplomate ACVO, Clinical Associate Professor of the Comparative Ophthalmology Service of the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine. Here\u2019s his reply:<span id=\"more-674\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Eye color in dogs is related to their coat color. As most dogs have darker coat colors, their eyes are often some shade of brown. The eye color is related to the amount of pigmentation within the eye. Blue-eyed dogs have pigment just in the deepest layers of the iris so their eyes appear blue. Dogs with brown irises have more pigment scattered throughout their iris which makes it appear more brown with more and more iridial pigmentation. Multi-colored (merle) dogs can have multi-colored eyes . . . again all related to their coat color.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information on multi-colored dogs and their multi-colored eyes, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashgi.org\/color\/aussie_eye_color.htm\">www.ashgi.org\/color\/aussie_eye_color.htm<\/a>. Did you know Australian Shepherd eyes can be golden, lemon yellow, amber, light brown, dark brown, green, orange or blue? I also learned from their website that research shows livestock are quicker to retreat from the predatory threat of a dark color dog with light eyes that to dogs with eyes that don\u2019t stand out from their coat as much. Interesting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter wants to know why most dogs\u2019 eyes are brown. TH, Michigan Dear TH, For help with this question I turned to my ophthalmology instructor in vet school, Ralph Hamor, DVM, MS, Diplomate ACVO, Clinical Associate Professor of the Comparative Ophthalmology Service of the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine. Here\u2019s his reply: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}