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Eye Gunk Bentley keeps getting more eye gunk! I clean it almost every day or every other and it keeps coming back. When it dries and we comb it out it is this dark brown. Is there something wrong or is this normal? |
unfortunately, it's normal..just clean it everyday, if it stays on there too long, it will rot the hair |
I clean my pups face every day. I get a washcloth with warm water and she likes licking it while I clean her face. lol |
yeah, thats what we keep doing. I just didn't know yorkies had that so much. Thank you! |
I usually take my finger and pick mine out everynight at bedtime..the biewer and shih tzu get it also...4 dogs, 2 eyes each, you get the picture, bedtime is NOT fun...LOL you can also take a warm cotton ball and clean them out...helps to soften it to where you can pick it off easier.. |
Yeah, Pixie gets alot of it too, I clean the area everyday, I wet the hair with a little water then use a small eyelash comb to pull the boogies out! it works really well!;) |
I use warm washcloth and/or eye cleaner and cotton ball to moisten the area and then I use a flea comb and comb it through area and it gets all of the crusty's out...have to do it daily though or Bella gets some buildup...I have also made sure I take her regularly to have hair cut around eyes so that strays to do poke her in her eye and make tearing worse. |
Cooper has the same deal. I did a little research and found out that it was normal. Although, when I took him to the vet recently she said he had a touch of pink eye. This made his "eye gunk" worse. He is not fond of me wiping his face, so it is quite the challenge. |
thanks. i might check with my vet then. did he give meds or anything? |
Have you ever noticed how bad that stuff that comes out smells??:confused: |
haha. no i try not to get to close to any of his body fluids. lol. by the smell of his poop 2 rooms away. I will keep my distance. lol |
I often damp the area with a wash cloth, then use a toothbrush to comb out the goop....it's definately not a fun task! ;) |
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How do any of you guys get your furrbuts to SIT STILL? Franklin would never let me do that. I've tried every single night. Any ideas? |
Im always picking out Bianca and Gino's...they are used to it LOL |
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Yep, an every night thing for one of my Yorkies. Water and a comb. Chipper's pretty accepting of the whole ordeal. For some reason the other two hardly have any buildup.:confused: Joanne :aimeeyork :aimeeyork :aimeeyork :dog: |
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Chachi has it every day it drves me nuts. I take a warm wet cloth to it then a flea comb |
thats what I have been doing as well |
I just had it for the first time today with Nolee. He always had the brown tear stain, which I clean daily also, but today it was the hard, brown,crusty, uch!! So this is normal??:eek: |
Thats what someone had told me. Bentley has it everyday. We try to clean it while it is still wet but we don't stop time to clean up his hair. We dampen it and use a flea comb. |
There was a thread on here the other day about giving them only distilled water and that somehow helps?? I know both my babies have horrible gunky eyes. |
Wow...this is cool. The first really cool thing I learned on YT was how to get rid of eye gunk. One of those little finger toothbrushes is PERFECT! Just dampen the area first and comb it out. Voila! :thumbup: I bought a package of two. One I use for his teeth and the other one for the eye gunk. :) |
Oh we have the same thing here. I clean it with a cloth and it comes out while its still wet. If it goes under his eye and stains I use Crystal Eye it helps to clean the dry stuff out and clean stains. What it does is it softens the gunk and its easy to get it if it is right under the eye and I cant reach it with a brush :) |
I heard that there are some drops to prevent this. Don't know what they are called, or where to get. Worth looking into though. |
reading this gave me some good tips that im going to try out thanks i like the toothbrush idea i never thought of it and i think its great i cant wait to try it...shes so cute and then shes got this crap in her hair uggg it drives me crazy n she hates when i try to clean her we fight lol |
Just wanted to say if you use cotton balls, you may want to consider wash cloths... even better baby wash cloths. When my baby (skin) had an eye infection the dr. told us to use cotton balls.. since you can just throw them out and they are one time use "sanitary".. this went on for 4 months.. he finally got old enough for the EYE dr.. and he said never use cotton balls or anything of the liking.. even if you don't see it, the fibers can get in the eye, irritate it, and just make it worse. Could be the same for dogs?? Their eyes could produce more "gunk" to help protect them from foreign objects?? |
I always heard that if you feed them food or treats that have the red dye in it or orange in color it will make it stain worse. I read this on a breeders site for maltese puppies. Also they said certain types of water can cause it to get worse with the water has a lot of mineral in it? So i always give Maddie bottled water and all natural treats. |
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