Dry eye

You may remember that I had posted previously about Bear having some greenish drainage from his eyes. We'd tried the liquid and the ointment version of treatment for it with no results. Last week I noticed that he was squinting frequently and that made me call the ophthalmologist that we take Poochie to see, just to get it checked out. Well, turns out, he has dry eye caused by the colitis medication he was taking. The ophthalmologist is hopeful that now that he's off the medication his tear ducts will start working normally again. If not, he will need to be on medication for the rest of his life. I am frustrated that we took him to our vet twice with the same symptom and neither time was the possibility of this being an effect of the medication mentioned but at the same time I'm thankful that we caught it when we did. It's a good reminder of how important it is to know what your pet's normal behavior is like and to act on any changes that seem suspicious.

Jack has found a friend. We have a Cairn Terrier who lives at the end of our dead end road. When he is out, he and Jack have a great time sniffing each other, leaving pee-mail for each other and running to the extent Jack's leash allows. Now when we walk Jack down to that area he will turn and look at the door of the Cairn's house to see if he's coming out to play. He'll do it a couple of times before he gives up. But you should see the tails wagging on both ends if they happen to meet up.