I recently purchased a DDR Shepherd for Mondioring. His structure is to die for, and he is a worker (watch out Endy! :grin. We are very much in love with him and he's fitting right in.
Problem is, he has what appears to be heterochromia - his right eye is a shade of brown lighter than his left, with a blue/grey fleck at the bottom of the iris. His vision is not affected.
Has anyone seen this in Shepherds before? Does anyone have any experience with this correcting over time?
My pup will be 12 weeks next tuesday so this is not left over puppy-blue pigment.
I don't have any experience w/it in dogs. If his vision is not affected, is it just a cosmetic "problem" then? The other thing that comes to mind is that heterochromia can be caused by an injury at some point; could this be the case possibly? Was he born with it or did it appear more recently?
I had a dog w/a similar injury after shipping. Never could prove it happened on the plane though. No loss of vision.
I don't know how it is in dogs, but in humans, iris nevus (the fleck at the bottom of the iris) is usually benign. There is, however, a rare chance of it turning into a malignant tumor. We usually take a photograph of it and monitor it over time.
You may want to have a canine ophthalmologist take a look at it to see if it needs to be monitored more closely, especially because this is a new pup, you may want to let the breeder know as well.
I have notified the breeder. He says he has never seen this in 47 years of breeding. While the contract covers genetic defects, it requires the pup be returned - soooo not happening as he is perfect in every other way and we are already too attached.
Also, it is probably purely cosmetic - but a major fault. It strikes him from a breeding program. I don't/didn't have solid plans to breed him, but after titling and if we wanted more dogs with his characteristics out of him I wanted it to be an option.
I'm working on getting a good picture. With the blue at the bottom, if he tilts his head down or looks down you can't see it. My stupid camera has that annoying delay before the picture is taken so it's been hard to get good shots of him at all. A friend of mine in our training club is going to bring her high-speed cam on Thursday so hopefully we can get some good shots. I don't think he got injured. We noticed his eye as soon as we pulled him from the crate at the airport.
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Puppy with small blue fleck in iris
. We are very much in love with him and he's fitting right in.
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