Dog color
Hazel
A light-brown iris with green or gold flecks, between amber and green.
69 Dog breeds list Hazel. It is in a club standard for 66 breeds.
Breeds whose standards accept Hazel
| Breed | KC | FCI | AKC | UKC | KUSA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Cocker SpanielEyes | Standard (“In reds and browns, dark hazel”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
| American FoxhoundEyes | No ruling | Standard (“brown or hazel”) | Standard (“of a brown or hazel color”) | Standard (“brown or hazel”) | No ruling |
| American Hairless TerrierEyes | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“from darkest brown to amber and hazel”) | Standard (“Hazel eyes are acceptable in dogs with lighter coat color”) | No ruling |
| American Water SpanielEyes | No ruling | Standard (“a light yellowish brown to brown, hazel or dark tone”) | Standard (“a light yellowish brown to brown, hazel or of dark tone”) | Standard (“hazel or brown”) | No ruling |
| AzawakhEyes | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“hazel to dark brown”) | No ruling |
| BarbetEyes | Standard (“dark hazel to dark brown”) | No ruling | Standard (“dark hazel to dark brown”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| BasenjiEyes | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Dark hazel to dark brown”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Basset Fauve de BretagneEyes | Standard (“hazel”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
| Basset HoundEyes | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“they may be hazel in light-colored hounds”) | No ruling |
| BeagleEyes | Standard (“Dark brown or hazel”) | Standard (“Dark brown or hazel”) | Standard (“of a brown or hazel color”) | Standard (“brown or hazel in color”) | Standard (“Dark brown or hazel”) |
| BeauceronEyes | No ruling | Standard (“never lighter than dark hazel”) | Standard (“never lighter than dark hazel”) | Standard (“never being lighter than dark hazel”) | Standard (“never lighter than dark hazel”) |
| Bedlington TerrierEyes | Standard (“livers and sandies have a light hazel eye”) | Standard (“livers and sandies have a light hazel eye”) | Standard (“sandies, sandies and tans, light hazel”) | Standard (“Sandy- and sandy and tan-colored dogs have light hazel eyes”) | Standard (“livers and sandies have a light hazel eye”) |
| Berger PicardEyes | Standard (“never lighter than hazel”) | Standard (“never lighter than hazel”) | Standard (“never lighter than hazel”) | Standard (“never lighter than hazel”) | Standard (“never lighter than hazel”) |
| Black and Tan CoonhoundEyes | Standard (“Hazel to dark brown”) | Standard (“from hazel to dark brown”) | Standard (“from hazel to dark brown”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| BloodhoundEyes | Standard (“dark brown or hazel”) | Standard (“Dark brown or hazel”) | Standard (“The hazel color is, however, to be preferred”) | Standard (“dark brown or hazel”) | Standard (“Dark brown or hazel”) |
| Border TerrierEyes | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Eyes dark hazel”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Braque du BourbonnaisEyes | No ruling | Standard (“hazel or dark amber depending on the colour of the coat”) | Standard (“hazel or dark amber depending on the colour of the coat”) | Standard (“Hazel or dark amber in color, depending on the coat”) | No ruling |
| BullmastiffEyes | Standard (“Dark or hazel”) | Standard (“Dark or hazel”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Dark or hazel”) |
| Cairn TerrierEyes | Standard (“dark hazel”) | Standard (“dark hazel”) | Standard (“hazel or dark hazel”) | Standard (“dark hazel”) | Standard (“dark hazel”) |
| CanaanEyes | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“varying shades of hazel with liver-pointed dogs”) | Fault (“hazel ... eyes are serious faults”) | No ruling |
| Caucasian Shepherd DogEyes | No ruling | Standard (“different shades of brown from dark to hazelnut”) | Standard (“different shades of brown from dark to hazelnut”) | No ruling | Standard (“different shades of brown from dark to hazelnut”) |
| Central Asian Shepherd DogEyes | No ruling | Standard (“from dark brown to hazel”) | Standard (“from dark brown to hazel”) | No ruling | Standard (“from dark brown to hazel”) |
| Cirneco dell’EtnaEyes | No ruling | Standard (“ochre, amber or hazel”) | No ruling | Not recognized (“they should never be brown or dark hazel”) | No ruling |
| Dandie Dinmont TerrierEyes | Standard (“Rich dark hazel”) | Standard (“Rich dark hazel”) | Standard (“a rich dark hazel”) | Standard (“a rich, dark hazel”) | Standard (“Rich dark hazel”) |
| Deutscher WachtelhundEyes | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“brown to hazel”) | No ruling |
| Dogo ArgentinoEyes | No ruling | Standard (“dark or hazel coloured”) | Standard (“dark or hazelnut in color”) | Standard (“very dark brown to dark hazel”) | Standard (“dark- or hazel-coloured”) |
| Dogue de BordeauxEyes | Standard (“hazel to dark brown”) | Standard (“hazel to dark brown”) | Standard (“hazel to dark brown”) | Standard (“Color ranges from hazel to dark brown”) | Standard (“hazel to dark brown”) |
| English Cocker SpanielEyes | Standard (“in the case of liver, liver roan and liver and white, dark hazel to harmonise with coat”) | Standard (“in the case of liver, liver roan and liver and white, dark hazel to harmonize with coat”) | Standard (“except in livers and liver parti-colors where hazel is permitted”) | Standard (“except in livers and liver parti-colors, where they are hazel”) | Standard (“in the case of liver, liver roan, and liver and white, dark hazel to harmonise with coat”) |
| English FoxhoundEyes | Standard (“hazel or brown”) | Standard (“hazel or brown”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“hazel or brown”) |
| English SetterEyes | Standard (“Colour ranging between hazel and dark brown”) | Standard (“Colour ranging between hazel and dark brown”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Colour ranging between hazel and dark brown”) |
| English Springer SpanielEyes | Standard (“Dark hazel”) | Standard (“Dark hazel”) | Standard (“preferably dark hazel in the liver and white dogs”) | Standard (“preferably a dark hazel in liver dogs”) | Standard (“Dark hazel”) |
| Entlebucher Mountain DogEyes | Standard (“dark brown to hazel”) | Standard (“dark brown to hazel”) | No ruling | Standard (“dark brown to hazel”) | No ruling |
| Field SpanielEyes | Standard (“Dark hazel in colour”) | Standard (“Dark hazel in colour”) | Standard (“dark hazel to dark brown”) | Standard (“dark hazel, brown or nearly black, depending on the color of the dog”) | Standard (“Dark hazel in colour”) |
| Flat-Coated RetrieverEyes | Standard (“dark brown or hazel”) | Standard (“dark brown or hazel”) | Standard (“dark brown or hazel”) | Standard (“dark brown or hazel”) | Standard (“dark brown or hazel”) |
| German Wirehaired PointerEyes | Standard (“hazel or darker”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
| Greater Swiss Mountain DogEyes | Standard (“Hazel to dark brown”) | Standard (“Hazel to chestnut brown”) | No ruling | Standard (“hazel to chestnut brown”) | Standard (“Hazel to chestnut brown”) |
| HarrierEyes | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“brown or hazel color in darker dogs, lighter hazel to yellow in lighter dogs”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Irish Red and White SetterEyes | Standard (“Hazel or dark brown”) | Standard (“Dark hazel or dark brown”) | Standard (“dark hazel or dark brown”) | Standard (“Dark hazel or dark brown”) | Standard (“Dark hazel or dark brown”) |
| Irish SetterEyes | Standard (“Dark hazel to dark brown”) | Standard (“Dark hazel or dark brown”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Dark hazel to dark brown”) |
| Irish Water SpanielEyes | No ruling | Standard (“dark amber or dark hazel”) | No ruling | Standard (“dark amber or dark hazel in color”) | Standard (“dark amber or dark hazel”) |
| Kerry Blue TerrierEyes | No ruling | Standard (“dark hazel”) | No ruling | Standard (“dark hazel”) | No ruling |
| Labrador RetrieverEyes | Standard (“hazel”) | Standard (“hazel”) | Standard (“brown or hazel in chocolates”) | Standard (“brown or hazel in chocolates”) | Standard (“hazel”) |
| Lagotto RomagnoloEyes | Standard (“ranges from ochre to dark hazel and brown”) | Standard (“ranges from ochre to hazel and dark brown”) | Standard (“ranges from ochre to hazel to dark brown”) | Standard (“Color ranges from ochre through hazel to dark brown”) | Standard (“ranges from ochre to hazel and dark brown”) |
| Lakeland TerrierEyes | Standard (“hazel”) | Standard (“hazel”) | Standard (“In liver or liver and tan dogs, the eyes are dark hazel”) | Standard (“In liver colored dogs, the eyes are dark hazel”) | Standard (“hazel”) |
| Lancashire HeelerEyes | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“liver dogs, which may have lighter hazel colored eyes”) | No ruling |
| MastiffEyes | Standard (“hazel brown, darker the better”) | Standard (“hazel brown, darker the better”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“hazel brown, the darker the better”) |
| Miniature American ShepherdEyes | No ruling | Standard (“hazel”) | Standard (“hazel”) | Standard (“hazel”) | Standard (“hazel”) |
| OtterhoundEyes | Standard (“a blue and tan hound may have hazel eyes”) | Standard (“a blue and tan hound may have hazel eyes”) | Standard (“those with liver or slate pigment may have hazel eyes”) | Standard (“Those with liver or slate pigment may have hazel eyes”) | Standard (“a blue and tan Hound may have hazel eyes”) |
| Plott HoundEyes | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Brown or hazel”) | Standard (“brown or hazel in color”) | No ruling |
| PointerEyes | Standard (“Either hazel or brown according to colour of coat”) | Standard (“Either hazel or brown according to colour of coat”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Either hazel or brown according to colour of coat”) |
| Polish Lowland SheepdogEyes | Standard (“colour hazel to brown”) | Standard (“hazel colour”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“hazel colour”) |
| Portuguese SheepdogEyes | No ruling | Standard (“may be hazelnut or amber in brown and yellow animals”) | Standard (“may be hazelnut or amber in brown and yellow animals”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Pyrenean MastiffEyes | Standard (“hazel in colour”) | Standard (“hazel colour”) | Standard (“hazel or brown color that range from light to dark”) | Standard (“hazel in color, the darker shades preferred”) | No ruling |
| Rat TerrierEyes | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“from darkest brown to hazel”) | Standard (“Hazel eyes are acceptable in dogs with lighter coat color”) | No ruling |
| Redbone CoonhoundEyes | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Dark brown to hazel in color”) | Standard (“brown to hazel in color”) | No ruling |
| Romanian Mioritic Shepherd DogEyes | No ruling | Standard (“the color is hazel, dark brown or slightly lighter”) | Standard (“the color is hazel, dark brown or slightly lighter”) | Standard (“hazel or brown in color”) | No ruling |
| SalukiEyes | Standard (“Dark to hazel”) | Standard (“Dark to hazel”) | Standard (“Dark to hazel”) | Standard (“dark to hazel”) | Standard (“Dark to hazel”) |
| SchipperkeEyes | No ruling | Standard (“hazel eyes still acceptable”) | No ruling | No ruling | No ruling |
| Scottish DeerhoundEyes | Standard (“Generally dark brown or hazel”) | Standard (“Generally dark brown or hazel”) | Standard (“generally dark brown, brown or hazel”) | Standard (“dark brown or hazel”) | Standard (“Generally dark brown or hazel”) |
| Soft Coated Wheaten TerrierEyes | Standard (“clear, bright dark hazel”) | Standard (“dark hazel”) | No ruling | Standard (“hazel”) | Standard (“dark hazel”) |
| Spanish GreyhoundEyes | No ruling | Standard (“preferably dark, of hazel colour”) | No ruling | Standard (“preferably dark hazel”) | Standard (“preferably dark, of hazel colour”) |
| Spanish MastiffEyes | No ruling | Standard (“preferably dark, of hazel colour”) | Standard (“preferably dark, of hazel colour”) | Standard (“dark hazel in color”) | No ruling |
| Spanish Water DogEyes | Standard (“Hazel or dark brown, depending on coat colour”) | Standard (“of a hazel to chestnut colour”) | Standard (“from hazel to dark chestnut”) | No ruling | No ruling |
| Sussex SpanielEyes | Standard (“Hazel colour”) | Standard (“Hazel colour”) | Standard (“hazel in color”) | Standard (“hazel in color”) | Standard (“Hazel colour”) |
| Welsh Springer SpanielEyes | Standard (“Hazel or dark”) | Standard (“Hazel or dark”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“Hazel or dark”) |
| XoloitzcuintliEyes | Standard (“black, brown, hazel, amber or yellow tones”) | Standard (“black, brown, hazel, amber or yellow tones”) | No ruling | No ruling | Standard (“black, brown, hazel, amber, or yellow tones”) |
Breeds where Hazel is a fault
| Breed | FCI | KUSA |
|---|---|---|
| BorzoiEyes | Fault (“light (all shades of hazelnut)”) | Fault (“light (all shades of hazelnut)”) |
Breeds where Hazel is disqualified or not accepted
| Breed |
|---|
| Andalusian PodencoEyes |
| Hortaya borzayaEyes |
Color changes
How Hazel can appear or change over an animal's life.
Bluechanges toHazel
Eyes · With age · from 2 weeks