[QUOTE=Lou;969964]She thinks the eye is going to have to come out. She also said that false eyes don't work with dogs. They are more trouble than they are worth. Is this true? QUOTE]
Did I mention already on this thread that I had a "one-eyed" poodle? He lost his eye in an accident with a German Shepherd. His case may be a little different than Cubbie's. The GS actually nicked him on the top of his head. The puncture severed the veins/nerves (not sure how to describe it) behind his eyeball. This caused the eye to lose blood flow. Dax (my poodle) went to an orthopedic surgeon at Texas A&M (we live close to College Station) and got a "false eye". It's not the kind of false eye you may be thinking of.... DISCLAIMER - if you get queasy easily, skip this posting!...... what they did was take out the eyeball, scoop out all the "innards" of the eyeball and fill it with a prosthetic. Then they reattached the eyeball. So he didn't have a glass eye or anything - it was actually his own eyeball casing with the prosthetic in it. As he aged, the eye membrane changed colors but we never had a single problem with the eye. That happened when he was about 8 months old and he lived a long 15 years. I actually took him back to the vet hospital at A&M when he was about 10 just so they could look at it and make sure all was still okay because with the heart condition he had later in life, I didn't want to take the chance of an infection coming up. They said all was still great. After the initial adjustment time in the beginning, he did great. He always turned real fast circles when he was happy and/or excited and he continued to do that - in the direction of his blind eye! He would bump into things while circling occasionally but I think he did great over all.
I'm not sure what kind of false eye your friend's vet is referring to but I thought I'd share more of our experience.
Good luck and yes, God bless Cubbie!
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