Arf Arf

These past few weeks, every time I’d call my dog, he’s not as jolly as he used to be. Normally he would run towards me, do a stand and kiss me all over. Then I noticed that he’s starting to lose his vision – he can’t walk straight and he uses instead his sense of hearing and smell when being called or when finding his food. My initial suspicion was that it has something to do with his age – old age perhaps that is why he’s not that playful anymore. Just that thought made me sad -- not seeing him running around the backyard, peeing on our gate and on our visitors.

Then last Sunday I noticed his right eye is all red. Sore eyes? Nuh, I don’t think so. Later during that day I noticed blood coming out and that really bothered me. I kept on thinking of him while I was out and I talked to my mom and asked her to please bring our dog to the veterinarian. I am willing to spend just to make sure he gets well.

We were told that our dog developed glaucoma. Unfortunately it may be genetic. Since he has blurred vision, perhaps he bumped into something sharp and that hit his eye which is why it was bleeding. He was confined for further observation and since he is an obedient dog, the operation was also performed yesterday. As to the glaucoma, there’s nothing we can do about it.

Last night while I was watching him inside his cage (yes, we decided to bring him back to his cage to avoid the same incident), he seems to be drowsy. The doctor said effect of the medicines. He is now under medication and once his wound has healed (from his eye operation), he can start walking around the house again but this time someone has to guide him.