my oldest dog has a ulcer on his eye
 

I guess its common on bostons, now they want me to go to the eye specialist.Why do I feel a fuckin coming lol

i hope he turns out to be ok man, vet bills can suck but always great to get to keep an old friend for a few more years, moeny well spent..!

Awww, poor baby :( Hope he gets better.

We have 7 cats, vets love us :Oh crap :1orglaugh

Sorry to hear about that Tony - hope it all works out for ya' man. Hopefully it'll be a simple inexpensive fix!

Thank you.My Vet gave me two meds for him, so I started him on that and tomorrow I will call to get a appointment with the eye doc. I read horror stories about these ulcers when people ignore them, dogs eyeball collapsing scary shit.Im extra sensitive with him so got it way early. It must hurt like a bitch, the old bastard has such a high pain tolerance.I got one of those shock collars so he wouldnt eat his brothers food (it was causing fights)and it would beep and he would keep eating. So I think it doesnt work, I put it on my wrist and go pass the beam and it hurt like a fuck but didnt phase him so I returned it. lol

Poor doggie, how old is he? My dog is getting old and sick.

He is 9 will 10 in july. He was 8 when I got him from the pound, he wasnt taken care covered in sores and bad dry skin. Believe or not his former owner was a sheriff and neglected this poor dog.I happen to go there the first day he was there and he licked my face and won my heart.

My Pomeranian is 12 now. They get more and more expensive, but they are worth it.

sorry to hear that :(

So sorry to hear that, best wishes.

:1orglaugh The best :thumbsup

I have one but all i ever did at the vets was castration. :( I still need to vacinate him....

7 cats ? You must have a big house. I only have one cat but I care for him very much :)

Pugs get them a lot also. Most of the pugs in rescue start out on drops and are on them their entire lives. So far, mine haven't had that problem (knock wood) but know that IF he loses the eye, they are still DAMN good at getting around. My 14 year old is deaf with cataracts and can still see a deer outside :)

If the specialist is on Abernathy, get your checkbook out, lol.

I'm in the process of getting my 11 year old used to diapers. It's not fun. It would be easier if the younger pups weren't ripping them off him every 5 minutes.

You're a good man, hope the pooch is ok.

poor little guy, lucky he has a daddy like you! he will be ok thanks to you but i will still say a doggy prayer for his recovery. btw, a man that loves his dog this much and is not afraid to show it is fucking hawt! just sayin.

aww. :(

i hope it is able to be taken care of and everything is okay!

oh! poor doggie...hope that will still be get rid.

He is very lucky to have you:) Hope he is ok!

My dog (collie-husky cross) is now 17 believe it or not. He's been getting quite a bit of eye discharge lately, gooey stuff and dried crusties after sleeping.

I take a warm wet cloth and clean up his eyes every time I see it, which at the moment is every 2-4 days. No sign of sores or anything, looks to be just irritation from his cataracts, which is what the vet told me last time I had him there.

I'm interested to see what eye drops you guys are using on your dogs, and what tricks you might be using to be able to administer them.

oh! i'm sorry for your doggy!

Had to laugh at that - the collar on the puppy is twisted. And it took me an hour to trap the little bastard just to get it on in the first place!

The vet actually gave me a prescrip for Xanax for the dogs so I can trim their nails. There's ONE place in North GA that will do my older male's and it's 60 miles away. He goes through a lot of "Howard Hughes" phases.

The two things are prescription, first of it is gentamicin sulfate those are drops and the neomycin which is like a jelly. I hold his face and eye open talking very calmly to him what a good boy he is and its a piece of cake. You might want to get:
http://revivalanimal.com/product.asp...almic+Ointment
they also have a puralube which I will get for him after his eye heals.
I was reading what can cause this on bug eyed dogs, is their eye lids dont close all the way.So while sleep they get dry eye and add rapid eye movement while sleeping, the eye gets irritated and it eventually become a ulcer. Puralube would keep the eye moist at night its a jelly.

awww sorry to hear that...poor doggy

I lost my 13 year old Aussie Cattle Dog to tumors a few months ago. I wish you all the best for yours.

My dog used to sit quietly while I trimmed his nails, but now that he's much older he's gotten all crotchety about having his paws fiddled with, and he tends to want to bite. I had to go get a muzzle for him, something I've never had to use on him ever... but the damn thing works. He doesn't like it much (the muzzle), but he becomes so absorbed with it that it's a LOT easier for me to trim those nails of his.

His eyesight has faded a little as well. Not super badly, but some.... enough that he sometimes steps in his own poop if I don't watch him every second of the day. I keep a bucket of lightly soapy water near the door, with a tiny bit of chlorine bleach in it, and I wash his paws before he enters the house... and again have to apply the muzzle now in order to accomplish that.

I hate putting it on him probably as much as he hates having it, but damn... I have to do something, right?




Thanks, good info there.

Best wishes to your pooch!