Walleyes and blindness
As I mentioned in another section, I'm meeting with a woman whose 'rescued' (but not Rescue) sheepdog has one blue eye and one brown. She doesn't really know anything about OES specifically, just happened to get a tip that this dog needed help - anyway, she said a friend told her that one blue eye and one brown means that the blue eye is blind. Now, I'm fairly positive this isn't necessarily the case, but would like to be able to say fairly definitively when we see her tonight if that is true or untrue. She says she has tried to check herself and couldn't tell, so that alone tells me the eyes are probably fine. If a dog *was* genetically blind in one eye - besides the fact they wouldn't be able to see out of it, are there any underlying issues that can stem from that condition? It seems a silly question, but I'm just curious. Couldn't really find anything in a search but maybe I searched the wrong stuff! |
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Not true. Wall eyes are common in the breed, acceptable in the breed standard, and do not indicate blindness in and of itself.  |
| Yeah, definately not true. Wendel has two blue eyes, and he can see a treat a mile away. |
* Capt. Obvious Danger wrote: Yeah, definately not true. Wendel has two blue eyes, and he can see a treat a mile away.
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hahaha I think even a blind dog could see a treat a mile away 
Thanks guys - that's what I thought, and even read that farmers used to believe blue eyes or walleyes meant the dog would never go blind. So unless they were blind to begin with and the farmers just didn't notice, ...lol. I do remember having a blind dog at our shelter, she had suuuper light blue eyes...I wonder if that's where the confusion comes from? I don't know much about blindness though so I could just be driveling |
| My Winston has a blue and a brown eye and he has great eye sight. Good for him......bad for the squirrels.... |
sneakysheepie wrote: My Winston has a blue and a brown eye and he has great eye sight.
Good for him......bad for the squirrels....Same with Lacy....her blue eye is very light too. Nothing to do with vision, it's just an eye color. |
notisolde wrote: Thanks guys - that's what I thought, and even read that farmers used to believe blue eyes or walleyes meant the dog would never go blind. '
So unless they were blind to begin with and the farmers just didn't notice, ...lol. I hope I get this straight. I seem to recall that farmers long time ago, apparently before science was invented thought that a wall eyed dog's two brain halves were not connected (that would explain many things about OES, come to think of it, not just the wall-eyed ones though ) Ergo, if something happened to one half of the brain, or one eye, it shouldn't affect the other.
OR my two brain halves are fried by these temps we're having and I need to go home and take a nap. Like several have said, wall-eyed is perfectly acceptable and relatively common in the breed. Kristine |
haha! i didn't see reasoning behind it - i think it was more an old wives' tale type of 'it was once believed' 
but, if all blue eyes were blind then no one would have believed it, making such an old wives' tale pretty well, nonexistent! |
Mad Dog wrote: notisolde wrote: Thanks guys - that's what I thought, and even read that farmers used to believe blue eyes or walleyes meant the dog would never go blind. 'So unless they were blind to begin with and the farmers just didn't notice, ...lol. I hope I get this straight. I seem to recall that farmers long time ago, apparently before science was invented thought that a wall eyed dog's two brain halves were not connected (that would explain many things about OES, come to think of it, not just the wall-eyed ones though ) Ergo, if something happened to one half of the brain, or one eye, it shouldn't affect the other.OR my two brain halves are fried by these temps we're having and I need to go home and take a nap. Like several have said, wall-eyed is perfectly acceptable and relatively common in the breed. Kristine I read the same thing altho the one I read was that they thought they had two brains  and that helps to explain my darling little Dutch and her manitupative ways |
| My Violet is Wall Eyed and nothing gets past here. Just an old wives tale. Wasn't the first OES Ole Wall Eyed Pete? |
Quote: hahaha I think even a blind dog could see a treat a mile away
Nope... but they can hear a treat a mile away
That's my Kayt! |
| Must be a lot of Aussies and Siberians (dogs, not people ) who are blind as the wall eye is common is those breeds plus others. Wonder what people say about.......oh great, how to spell "weimaraner"...and their strange eye colors?? |
My 1st thought with the post title was - "who cares if fish are blind?!"  |
| You northeners! |
| You're funny Dawn! You've been around those fishermen too long. |
got sheep wrote: My 1st thought with the post title was - "who cares if fish are blind?!"
haha i know! i was telling my husband they were called walleyes, and he got this blank look and said "...how did we start talking about fish?" |
Beaureguard's Mom wrote: You're funny Dawn! You've been around those fishermen too long.
Sorry - but you are so right, Tammy 
Todd just left at 2am to go up north (north of Brainerd and Emily for you Minnesotans) to a friend's property that includes 2 private access lakes. Totally roughing it. Gravel road that leads into a logging road, then a rutted trail. 4WD pickup pulling the boat, chainsaws are required, in case they have to cut fallen trees out of the road. Weed whipper to clear brush/weeds to cut down on the mosquitos next to the tents. Guns to ward off bears....Pack everything in and out. They will be coming back Monday night. Our son Travis and nephew Jarrett are with - this is their favorite trip all year.  |
got sheep wrote: My 1st thought with the post title was - "who cares if fish are blind?!"
I thought the same thing - -does that mean I am becoming a Minnesotan? Oh no - - |
sneakysheepie wrote: got sheep wrote: My 1st thought with the post title was - "who cares if fish are blind?!" I thought the same thing - -does that mean I am becoming a Minnesotain? Oh no - - Yep, you are doomed for sure! |
got sheep wrote: Quote: I thought the same thing - -does that mean I am becoming a Minnesotain? Oh no - - Yep, you are doomed for sure! We should bring over hotdish and lefse to celebrate! |
notisolde wrote: got sheep wrote: Quote: I thought the same thing - -does that mean I am becoming a Minnesotain? Oh no - - Yep, you are doomed for sure! We should bring over hotdish and lefse to celebrate! |
got sheep wrote: to cut down on the mosquitos next to the tents.
When I read this the first time I left out the on, so I read "to cut down mosquitos" and I thought HOLY  those are some big mosquitos!! |
| Up North, they might well be that big! |
Beaureguard's Mom wrote: got sheep wrote: to cut down on the mosquitos next to the tents. When I read this the first time I left out the on, so I read "to cut down mosquitos" and I thought HOLY those are some big mosquitos!! I hear they are the state bird!! |
| I once saw a mazsquito snatch a walleye right out of the lake. (teehee) |
* Capt. Obvious Danger wrote: Yeah, definately not true. Wendel has two blue eyes, and he can see a treat a mile away.
I certainly agree to that one! We have many combinations of eye colors in our house and they all are perfectly focused! |
violet wrote: I once saw a mazsquito snatch a walleye right out of the lake. (teehee) Once when I was getting off a small small small commuter plane from DFW in Waco, Texas a couple of Mosquitos flew overhead and I overheard one say to the other:
"Should we bite him here, or take him home first?" |
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