I’m pretty sure he’s an arctic pup. they start out dark like that, despite season, and then get lighter later on. they’re also all born with blue eyes. that’s afaik.

Their eyes don’t start out blue, they have no pigmentation in the eyes right away, then it forms. The ‘blue’ is just a reflection off of the cornea. same goes for human babies!

zoozoo, thanks, now I have to move to Russia!

BTW- I’m not denying eye color changes after time. But saying that ALL babies are born with blue eyes is incorrect.With blue, black, or brown eyes? Yes.
However, far more babies are born with brown and blue eyes than with blue eyes. The contention was over whether human babies are born with eyes of any color other than blue- they usually are. Blue eyes at birth happen frequently- but at nowhere near the same rate as brown or black. It wouldn’t even be as high as ‘often’, except in certain parts of the world where the alleles make that more likely. In those places it might even feel like it’s ‘all the time’ or ‘often’, but only if one ignores or is not exposed to human diversity. Sorry to get so picky- but I’m an anthropologist.
But back to snorgling the anerable little foxy…

oh, BTW, I’m Indian, and my eyes were blacker than black when I was a joey. (sightly browner now …)

Oh, and I said ‘joey’ coz ‘baby’ graduates from descriptive term to pick-up line as you get older. (As in “How ya doin’, baby?”)

No Meg, you’re kinda right. I read somewhere that ALL humans are born with either blue or brown/black eyes which gradually change colour.

Sooooo cute, btw.

I’m with madamesmartypants. The vast majority of Indian people (of which I am one) are born with brown eyes.

I have to say that the way some posters used “all people” and “all white people” as though they were synonyms just seemed…well, very white of them.

I used to take care of baby foxes at a nature center. They cry almost just like human babies. It it HEARTbreaking. I wish I’d had a big pocket to put them in!

Theo: ok, you can make a den out of the couch, but do you also have strong scent glands in your tail??
On second thought, dont’ answer that. TMI : P

Hey.
I published at what must have been the same moment as Theo- there were no posts when I started writing my posts. Therefore, I thought I was first.
But I looked for evidence that all humans are born with blue eyes- according to numerous sites I found through Google that cited scientific info, it’s not true. Plenty of humans are born with brown and black eyes. In fact, from the sound of it, most of them are, because most humans don’t come from Europe or other parts of the world where people are born with a low amount of melanin. While one can be mostly African, Asian, Amerind or of Australian extraction and be born with blue eyes, it’s a lot less likely. Primarily it happens among people who are primarily from Northern, Eastern and Western Europe- and people from those areas do not make up most of the world’s population. Even many people in Southern Europe have a lot of melanin at birth.