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05-30-2008, 05:03 AM | #1 |
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| The Eyes Have It... I want each of you "Show Breeders" OPO on matching the Yorkie Coats to their Eyes, such as what type coat you think they may have..Like cotton, silk or true silk. What part of the eyes do you look at for the color? Is it the whole eye or the iris part of the eye? What color eyes are usually what coats? Like say red would be a ? Coated Yorkie. I was just wondering about the eyes and coats for I had one Clyde that had solid green eyes...Both of his whole eyes was green...What does this mean with his coat? If it means anything. What ages do you find the eyes telling the truth about their coats? I mean do you notice the color of their eyes before they are adopted out at 12 weeks old? Thanks for any Wisdom on this Subject. Lee |
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05-30-2008, 05:45 AM | #2 |
BANNED! | I personally don't think the eye color is truely accurate for coats. I think camera angle and lighting play an important role in the eye color to be honest. Here's a picture of one of the puppies I kept from a previous litter and she has a silky coat that doesn't tangle easily. This is Keisha when she was younger and both these pictures were taken only a few days apart: Keisha-08.jpg Eyes green keisha09.jpg A few days later red Keisha pink harness vest.jpg Here she is now! |
05-30-2008, 05:59 AM | #3 |
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| I haven't seen any official research at all on this but I did have a long time show breeder recently tell me that the eye shine method started out as a rumor a few years ago in dog show circles and from there, people just ran with it. I have found that it hasn't made any difference in my dogs. |
05-30-2008, 06:43 AM | #4 |
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| I have found it to be completely accurate in all of our ADULT yorkies. It does not seem to hold true for a growing puppy. Red has always been soft here, green/light yellow is definitely silky. It does not mean they are the correct color or the correct type of silky...but they are silky.
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05-30-2008, 07:13 AM | #5 |
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| I think it is true... At night I take my dogs for a walk around the yard and they look back to see where I am and look into the light... there is definitely a difference in their eye color and my red-eyed girl has a softer coat than the rest of the gang... |
06-01-2008, 05:57 AM | #6 | |
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06-01-2008, 09:46 AM | #7 | |
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If you look at JoJo on our website she is soft coated and the only one we have with a red eye shine. She is Jezebel's mom and although she is not silky she has a very important place here for us, she is very difficult to fault otherwise. Her eye shine looks just like the red one posted above. The green eye shine is very bright green, again just like above.
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06-03-2008, 09:12 AM | #8 | |
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06-03-2008, 10:30 AM | #9 |
I ♥ Joey & Ralphie! Donating Member | I found this link interesting:Eye Shine "The eye in all animals except pigs and man have a reflective layer along the back of the retina called the tapetum. This layer serves to reflect light to allow maximal usage of the available light. In some animals the tapetum is colored in others it is not. The reddish color that you see in human eyes is the reflection of the blood vessels in the back of the eye because the tapetum is NOT colored. This is the same in the "red eye" of the Yorkie. The blue and green you see in the Yorkie's are from a pigmentation in the tapetum -- how this relates to coats I am not sure.....but could be that pigmentation of the eye and coat texture are related genetically. Tapetums are very beautiful -- metallic, brilliant colors in most animals. You can watch Yorkies, clipped down or in full coat, outside in the sunshine ... and you can easily separate them into two groups - those with a "blue cast" to the coat, and those with a "gold cast" to the coat. Those with gold or bronze cast to the coat have eyes that reflect a flash bulb or flashlight with the "red eye" or "shiny" red reflection to the pupil.......no pigment. Those blue cast dogs always seem to reflect blue or green from the pupil.....pigment. The "red eye" dog has a thicker, softer, more opaque (not shiny silky) coat ... silky coated pups look kind of straggly."
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