![]() Chocolate Lab eye colorĮye color in Labradors falls broadly into two categories: brown, and hazel. But can you picture their eyes without looking at a photo? And since chocolate is the least common of the three colors, can you remember if you’ve ever seen a brown Lab with blue eyes? Probably not, but it wasn’t a trick question to find out if your memory is getting rusty – in fact, a full blooded Lab with a chocolate coat can’t have blue eyes. You’re probably already pretty familiar with the three traditional Labrador colors: black, yellow, and brown (also known as chocolate or liver). But, we’ll take a look at how they sometimes get added anyway. In fact, there are very few ways for dogs to have blue eyes, and none of them occur naturally in the Labrador breed. What causes blue eyes in some dog breeds?Įvery brown Lab puppy is born with blue eyes, but they inevitably turn hazel or brown by the time they’re about 4 months old.Chocolate Labs aren’t meant to have blue eyes forever, but very occasionally you’ll find a dog that throws this fact into question. ![]() If you choose your next pup from a litter of chocolate Lab puppies with blue eyes, enjoy their puppy looks while they last and take lots of photos to reflect on when they’re grown up. Light brown Labrador dogs with the dilution gene may have pale green eyes too. ![]() ![]() The closest you can get to blue is a chocolate Lab with hazel eyes that have a high proportion of green. Adult chocolate Lab eyes are either brown, or hazel. Chocolate Lab with blue eyes are always puppies. ![]()
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