Can Poodles Have Blue Eyes?

Blue eyes in a Poodle indicates that this dog is not purebred.
Blue eyes in a Poodle indicate that this dog is not pure-bred. A true poodle must have brownish to hazel eyes and no other color, and cannot be blue-eyed unless it carries the merle gene from somewhere else in its ancestry. But all mixed breeds can have “blue” eye genes from elsewhere.

In order for a Poodle to have blue eyes, the dog would need the Merle gene from another breed of canine carried through its ancestry which would make it genetically a crossbreed or hybrid rather than purely a poodle…

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