Different coloured eyes?? cancer

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Last week i took a photo of our shetland

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as you can see her eys are two different colours. If you look at them normal they look fine. A few months ago i read in a mag about a child been saved from cancer of the eye because of a photo, the child had his photo taken and his eyes were different colours and it turned out he had cancer. Do you think i should get the vet to look at her eyes? She is in perfect health and her vision seems fine.
Hope it makes sence thank you x
 
Hmmm thats a new idea to me
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You could call the vets up and ask for advice. They would rather be bothered now by nothing, than later when it is too late. I knew a horse that had one blue and one brown eye, but you could see it. He was PTS a year or so ago but not cancer related. Could you please PM me when you find out if that is true, Id be very intrested. Thanks in advance ...x
 
How weird- I've seen this in a horse that was known to be blind in one eye because of an accident; he had scars on his nose but his eye was undamaged externally, and looked normal in normal light. However, I saw him in the halflight in his box one day & one eye reflected green, one red. (Think the red was the good eye; something to do with blood supply? but I'm not sure).

Are your pony's pupils diferent? (Would have expected the one towards the wall to be the bigger one as less light from this direction, but here it looks the other way round?)
 
I don't know what advice to give except to say that my horse's good eye appears to glow greenish in photos and her blind eye (caused by an injury many years ago) glows with a blue cast to it.

I would give the vet a call, even if just to discuss it over the phone, in case it is a signal of changes in the eye. Are both the pupils the same size?
 
I would definitely have a word with your vet. My old dog had a tumour in one eye and had to have the eye removed. Some time after this I was looking at some photos taken just before the op and the reflection from the flash was different in the bad eye. I hadn't thought anything of it before, but afterwards remembered reading that article about the child. Hopefully it will be something and nothing with your lady but would put your mind at rest to have it checked.
 
It the tapetum that you see which is the part of the eye that helps the horse see in the dark, you are probably just seeing different parts of it. Not sure if that is true
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But thats what my 'research' told me
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