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Originally Posted by pstinard

I don't know how much truth there is to it, but there is the famous "photo flash eye color" theory. Bella had a blue flash as a puppy and now has a silky coat, so the prediction worked for Bella. Here is some info I found on the web:

Yorkie Eye Colors & the Correlation to the Coat

The Yorkie, and all dog breeds and humans, have a reflective coating along the back of the retina called the tapetum. This layer provides the ability for light to reflect. Sometimes this tapetum is colored and sometimes it is not.

When a human has red blood vessels showing in the whites of their eyes, this is because that tapetum is not colored.

A Yorkie who has red vessels showing on the eye has a colorless tapetum.

A Yorkie with blue or green eyes, has a colored tapetum.

The color of the Yorkie’s eyes is directly related to its coat. Those who have clear colored tapetum (and get “red eye” when having photos taken) have a bronze casting on the coat. Those with green or blue eyes will hardly ever be able to show that “red eye” effect in photos, and the coat of the dog will have a blue casting. Most Yorkies with blue or green eyes have more silky coat. Most Yorkies with other eye colors will have a thicker, softer hair.

From Yorkshire Terrier Information Center | Yorkie Eye Care

Tibbe has the red-eyed look whereas each of my previous Yorkies had green eyes in some of their photos.