At what age do puppies eyes change color like humans?

[Adrianne Matzkin]

Charli was born in an Amish Puppy Mill. Born with an umbilical cord hernia, she would have been destroyed since she was no good to Pet Land - 'damaged goods'. His PMer surrendered her to a rescue - which is trully incredible and lucky for us!!

I was told she was 10 weeks old but I don't believe it. I think she was closer to 6 weeks when I adopted her. She was about 9" long and weighed 7lbs. A year later she is over 27" tall!!

This is her PetFinder picture - I know - how could you not fall in love! Check out those blue eyes.

 

Here she is today - her eyes are black - that brown on her muzzle is after playing the mud in the yard before her bath.

 

So back to the question, at what age do puppy's eyes change color. I am trying to figure out how old she probably was when she adopted us.

[Tara L P]

I think many times it's the reflection of the flash that make the eyes appear blue. When I received pics of black Ella her eyes looked blue but the breeder said they were dark brown. Even now sometimes I can take a photo and it turns her eyes a blueish color. It seems like it's more common with puppies who have black hair. Charlie is a cutie! And lucky! 

[Adrianne Matzkin]

but this picture was taken outside in the sun. Could that make a difference.
And TY Tara, she is a cutie and I am the lucky one!!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

And dogs with true blue eyes like huskies often get that "red-eye" thing in photographs, like blue-eyed people. That's another way you can tell.

[F, Calla & Luca]

That's funny. We had a discussion on this--don't we have one on everything. And dogs usually get that gold eye thing because they have a, forgive me, tapetum lucidum. I would think this was true even for blue eyed dogs.
http://www.doodlekisses.com/forum/topics/goldeye-1?id=2065244%3ATop...

[Adrianne Matzkin]

we get the blzing yellow eye thing from both girls. It really is quite annoying that every picture makes them look like aliens!

[F, Calla & Luca]

Especially if you photograph hem when it's dark out : )

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

[Leslie and Halas]

This is how most pics of my husky turned out!

[Goldendoodle World]

That is simply red eye of your flash from the camera and standing too close to your pups with your camera!   You can fix that through your camera settings.  You are standing too close to your dogs with your camera and using flash.  Professional photographers don't have that problem and you can obtain information through any website about how to take photos.  Use your software through photoshop to remove "red eye" and your situation can be corrected in  your photos.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Wow, scary! And a truly red reflex. Now I'm wondering if Husky eyes are not different somehow since they face all that glaring snow.The tapetum is part of what makes dogs able to see so well when hunting in the dark. Dogs bring such interesting questions to mind!

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

I once drove a LASIK surgeon around through the National Park in my area. It was about 2 am and he was in a really bad mood. Suddenly he yells stop and shines my high power flash light into the deers eyes that were in the field. His bad mood calms as he becomes fascinated with the eyes of animals along the road as we traveled.

He tried to explain the entire make-up of deer, dogs, cats and others compared with the human eye and that animals unlike humans have different corneas. He told me they are almost like a double layer membrane.... something like this. He knowledge was beyond what I could understand in his explanations....but I remember this conversation well.

Since you posted this question I have done a few searches and have come up with NOTHING.
Maybe he was just drunk? Or maybe I am not doing the search correctly. Dunno I was thrilled that it changed his mood but now I just wished I could understand why and what he was trying to explain. I really think he also mentioned red eye/gold eye thing in photography.

p.s. I know about the differences in Rods and Cones...not what I was trying to explain here.

anyone out there who might know more differences? Maybe Husky eyes have more differences in makeup than just being blue? Certainly gives evidence to this in the above picture.

[F, Calla & Luca]

See my reply next page. It explains it.