Well, it seems like only yesterday that I was writing about the importance of consulting a specialist, and here we have a case in point. Jack looks a lot like the cat in one of our favorite pictures, “The Favorite Cat”. A print hangs in our family room. He’s an older cat, and he has […]
Category Archives: Eye Problems
The appointment schedule says, "Check Eyes". His owner says, "He was just fine on Friday, and on Saturday he started bumping into things. He falls off the curb, he can't find the steps. I put his treat on the floor and he couldn't find it until I put it up where he could smell it." […]
I've posted on bug-eyed dogs in the past, and you may recall (or it may be intuitively obvious to you) that they are more susceptible to eye injuries than a dog whose eye is nice and protected back inside the socket (instead of bulging out of it). This is a rather extreme example. We did […]
I never thought we'd get to this point. As I wrote previously, I thought he would lose his eye. This guy's owner thinks he can see out of his bum eye. I'm not convinced that he can see much, maybe light and dark. The good part is that it doesn't seem to be bothering him. […]
There are still plenty of ways and plenty of time for this eye to go south, but (incredibly) the dog is keeping his eye open, even in bright light, not squinting, rarely even trying to rub it. The cornea is not ulcerating (at least it's not taking up fluorescein dye), and the sutures are holding. […]
A corneal laceration is a cut or tear through the cornea, the clear part on the front of the eye. A cat's claw could do it. Cut all the way through it, and the inside of your eye starts going outside your eye. Not good. Stuff outside the eye, like bacteria, can go inside your eye. Also […]
Cats and dogs have a third eyelid. Normally you don’t see it, as it stays tucked down in the corner of the eye. There are tear-producing glands on the back side, and periodically it sweeps across the eye like a windshield-wiper, spreading the tears during the blinking process. When the outer lids droop, they close […]
I must say, that though I was a champeen speller in 1967, I’m not even sure that Bug-Eyed is a word. Maybe a superfluous apostrophe would help it out: Bug-eye’d? …Nah. I talked a bit about Bug-eyed dogs in a previous post. I addressed some of the hazards of the condition, and how to recognize […]
I touched on this problem when I discussed weird-looking dogs some time back. After looking at little Buddy the Boston Terrier today, I feel a need to talk more about it. Buddy, like most Boston Terriers, is exophthalmic, or "bug-eyed", as I like to say. Boston Terriers are not as extreme in this respect as […]