Dog eye sight question.

[doghouse]

Dang it, sucks watching them age. I feel the same about this guy. Might cost me a leg to keep him around but oh well. If all that's wrong is his eye sight we're gonna consider ourselves lucky.

I had a younger small dog go blind and she did great as long as you didn't move the furniture around. Good luck.

[okrattler]

I've known a few blind dogs. They got around pretty good considering they couldn't see. My mom runs a dog rescue so she gets discounts at the vets office. She's gonna get him in there and see if they can prescribe something for him. She confirmed there are eye drops for dogs that are supposed to help with cataracts. That'd sure be awesome. He'll feel like a new dog once that haziness goes away.

[okrattler]

Good grief, getting pictures of a dog aint as easy as it sounds. The puppy is going nuts and gets him stirred up. Neither one holds still long enough for nothin. I'm trying to get one to put on here. The puppy thinks it's time to play. That little crap head tore a pillow up yesterday.

[Leverhunter]

Wife's last dog got cataracts when he got older, looked like cloudy eyes. He was able to get around ok, other issues got him.

[PYBUCK]

My wifes little JRT got a cloudy eye and we took her to the vet, they told us she had a luxiated lens in her eye from Glycome. They ended up removing her eye. They gave us some drops for her other eye to help prevent the same thing from happening. We put them in for 2 years until her other eye did the same thing. She now has no eyes but still gets around surprisingly well. They told us terriers were suspectable to this problem. Take your dog to the vet and make sure he does not have glycoma. they can operate to repair a luxated lens if they catch it in time.

[okrattler]

I'll get him in to see the vet. His one good eye I think we can probably fix. Maybe that's just me being hopeful but I'd rather take care of it now before it gets any worse if they can.

[BigRed323]

Rattler, really need to get him checked out in person. So many different possibilities that can range from cataracts, lenticular sclerosis (normal age change), corneal edema (this can be caused by variety of things), and many others.

I will say, I know some vets are not the most comfortable with eye disease diagnosis so you can always request to be referred to an ophthalmologist if you want to make sure and do everything possible. If surgery or something is needed, most of us don’t do eye specific surgeries and we refer out to a specialist.

[okrattler]

Rattler, really need to get him checked out in person. So many different possibilities that can range from cataracts, lenticular sclerosis (normal age change), corneal edema (this can be caused by variety of things), and many others.

I will say, I know some vets are not the most comfortable with eye disease diagnosis so you can always request to be referred to an ophthalmologist if you want to make sure and do everything possible. If surgery or something is needed, most of us don’t do eye specific surgeries and we refer out to a specialist.

I think the vet I'll end up taking him to is a few hours away. They may just be able to diagnose what's going on with him but I don't know that they'll necessarily be able to fix the problem there.

[Clearfork51]

Sounds like beginning to mid stages of cataracts. I was in the vet pharmaceutical business for 45 years. There are some eye drops that can help slow the progression of the disease or, in some cases clear the cloudiness, but it’s a rest of their life treatment. If stopped the cloudiness returns. Sorry I can’t remember the name of the drops, but your vet should be able to find out.

[okrattler]

Sounds like beginning to mid stages of cataracts. I was in the vet pharmaceutical business for 45 years. There are some eye drops that can help slow the progression of the disease or, in some cases clear the cloudiness, but it’s a rest of their life treatment. If stopped the cloudiness returns. Sorry I can’t remember the name of the drops, but your vet should be able to find out.

Hopefully it's as simple as putting drops in. That won't be a problem. Well, he won't like it. I'll likely get bit sometimes but that's okay. I'll be happy if that's all it takes to clear up some of that. Because like I was saying earlier on that's really the only thing he's got wrong with him. He's in great shape for an older dog. He eats regularly and stays active and gets around good. Poor guy just can't see too good.

I'll tell you what made me notice it was affecting him at first was we were playing fetch. I was throwing tennis balls against the fence and they'd run and get them. He'd see me throw his tennis ball and hear it hit the fence but he couldn't find it. That made me feel bad.

[brokeno]

Did he take the shot

[Dusty Britches]

My 10 year old Lacy has cloudiness developing but this last weekend he seems to have slipped dramatically in his eyesight and hearing loss. He growls and barks at every new sight (mostly people) and every non routine sound. He's also grumpy all of the time, except when he sees me.

[dclifton]

My dads lab was pretty dang blind. his was due to messed up thyroid. He took medicine for it but never seemed to help. he was a machine thought luckily his nose was amazing. What was funny was my dog had great eyesight and he watched birds. But was to lazy to use his nose. So they made a great pair hunting together. They are both gone now but dang they where good. Its tough but sometimes there isnt much that can be done.

[DoveBlaster]

We just took our 18 year old Staffordshire Terrier to the Vet with a red eye, he wanted us to go to an ophthalmologist. Anyone had a dog with red eye?