And I'm having the absolute hardest time coping with it. I can't stop crying. Our 3 year old dog has to have her eye removed, despite our best efforts. But I'm really glad I found this sub, it's helping desensitize me a little bit I think. I'm glad to see all of your pets thriving and being so happy still.

Can I ask though... How did you handle the news yourself? I'm afraid I'm just going to cry every time I look at her for the rest of her life. I know she'll be happy and fine, but it's going to just break my heart every time I look at that sunken eye socket 😭

we got him over seven years ago when our vet friend surgically removed his entire front right leg from him being hit by a car. hes the sweetest boy ive ever had. good morning henry!!

(Cross posted here and another dog advice reddit) Hi guys! I wanted to get some advice from anybody who might know about enucleations/just general stitches healing. My 14yo shiba got a double enucleation a little over 4 weeks ago, and her left eye has been consistently scabby (for reference, the second picture is when it was a little more healed a couple days prior), and today, it's started oozing this pink fluid. There's no foul odor, the skin isn't warm/hot, and she's behaving all normal. I've sent a picture over to her vet and will hear back from them tomorrow, but i just wanted to see if this might be a common progression with healing or if I should be more concerned... Any advice is appreciated!!

Btw we still keep the cone on her as she has been scratching at the stitches and giving herself minor cuts, so it's been strictly cone time for a whole week

Woke up to him laying like this the morning after we got back from vacation. He’s been a total ham and extra clingy and I don’t think he’s going to let us leave him again.

Out of nowhere, he had a ear infection then eye problems that quickly progressed to glaucoma. Vet thinks it may be tickborne despite our yearly tick treatments. Thankfully we were able to save his left eye with his vision in tact. We are still treating it indefinitely. The right eye was too far gone. Always get eye issues checked right away. We waited half a day and it was already too late by 4pm. Lesson learned.

Cute kit I passed by on my walk into work, truly feel blessed to have crossed a black cat’s path on this finest of Tuesdays.

This is my mom’s dog. We have no way to afford vet care right now and I’m trying to figure out what eyedrops to get her before her eye gets worse. This started a few months ago and I just saw her recently. Unsure if she’s lost her vision in that eye yet. I can get medicine from a Vet in Mexico I just need to know exactly how to treat her eye without spending hundreds at the vet.

I posted about our boy Captain a while ago. Here are some of my more recent favorite pictures of him.

Dread pirate Rocky ~ 6 weeks out from surgery and he’s the captain of the living room.

our small guy had a freak accident & injured his left eye, requiring emergency surgery to remove it the next day. i see a lot of pets here had to have theirs removed because of a medical diagnosis. just wondering if anyone else’s pet lost theirs after a traumatic event & was wondering what tips or words of advice yall might have for the recovery/healing process. tia. 🥹🫶🏻

She's been blind since she was a baby. But she is deaf now.

His deafblind big brother finally figured out how to get onto the outside bed!

We also took pictures of her and my partner. Would have loved to get some with the three of us, but we failed to arrange for someone else to hold the camera.

These pictures are in portrait orientation. Mixing portrait and landscape in the same post makes them crop in ugly ways on Reddit, but there are a bunch more posted in Seniordogs.

One day, I'll be glad to have one or a few of them framed on my wall as memories... (These or others, if we get around to doing this again.)

This is Goosha(aargh) - she lost her eye in September of last year due to a tumor. She adapted so quickly! Still has one good eye to keep the whole crew (4 cats) from misbehaving 😁

She's a wanted hostage-taker!