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Re: pigment & eye color

It could be the winter that is making your puppy have poor pigmentation. Wait until the spring.

Re: pigment & eye color

One or two pups in the same litter can just have worse pigment than the rest. Had a litter of 8 - great pigment in all except one puppy. She had a slightly lighter nose and no pigment around her eyes. Took a while but it came in around 12 weeks. I see pictures of her as an adult and has good pigment during the summer but really gets a snow nose during winter.

Re: pigment & eye color

OK how about this one. I had one yellow male pup out of 8 in a black/yellow litter and he had a very light coat, the jet blackest pigment you ever saw(as did the other yellows), but his eyes were crystal clear blue!!! Even at 8 weeks as he left I wondered what his eyes would do. They turned dark brown later on.

Re: pigment & eye color

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OK how about this one. I had one yellow male pup out of 8 in a black/yellow litter and he had a very light coat, the jet blackest pigment you ever saw(as did the other yellows), but his eyes were crystal clear blue!!! Even at 8 weeks as he left I wondered what his eyes would do. They turned dark brown later on.

Re: pigment & eye color

Yeah that's what I thought!! It was really bizarre!

Re: pigment & eye color

I am the O.P. of this thread. I wanted to give an update on the status of the pigment and eye color of this puppy. The puppy is 9 1/2 weeks now and the dark eye rim pigment has come in and the eye color has also darkened to brown. It must have been that this puppy's pigment took longer to come in than the other ones in the litter.

Thanks to those who replied.