My vet has also said that toy dogs are more prone to eye tearing that larger dogs.
I have tried almost every food out there on the market, from super high quality and protien to lowere quality and lower protein.. not one helped with my dogs eye staining completly. I however did noticed when they were on foods like evo, acana, totw no grain foods, thier eye tearing/staing got alot worst than being on something with grains, which I know to most wont make sense, but thats how it has worked out for us. I keep my dogs on all natural eye staining product called..tear stain supplement by nutravet, it has all natural products, you give 1/4 teaspoon for dogs under 15 pounds, 200 gram bottle was 19.99 at entirelypets.com. It works very slowly but it definitly seems to be working. That and I keep thier eyes trimmed and clean them everyday with a washcloth and warm water.
I will be watching this thread with great interest..