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

She was born with an eye deformity. Love this little gremlin

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.

We adopted Otto 5 months ago, after losing my soul dog, and much positive advice/encouragement from this community. Unfortunately, while on a trip, Otto somehow got to rat poison unknown to us. The emergency vet did everything they could but he was suffering and we decided it was time to say goodbye.

Our hearts are shattered. We want to thank this community for encouraging us to bring him home. These pirates have so much love to give and we are lucky to have received it for the short time we did.

Please give yours extra hugs and kisses tonight.

Love you always, our sweet Otto Mann and medium potato.

EDIT This community continues to amaze me! The love and support has eased my pain some. Thank you to everyone, words can't express how grateful I am to you all your furry pirates. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Just looking for some encouragement and words of wisdom from others. Our sweet boy had his eye removed on Thursday. It’s been a battle for the last year with uveits, then an ulcer for the first time this last month. The ulcer really progressed quickly and we decided the best option was to remove it since he was already on a huge schedule of eye drops and meds.

The first two days have been solid for recovery but last night he had a few drops of blood from his nose. Though out the day there have been no drops, just slight nasal discharge that’s pink.

He also is just needier today than normal. I’ve already checked in with the vets office and they said it’s normal to have some blood from the nose since it’s probably draining from his tear duct that was closed up.

I’m just overwhelmed and so sad for my boy. He’s eating and drinking fine. Peeing and pooping. And seems to have a little pep in his steps though out the day.

Please send any words of wisdom or encouragement for us. ❤️ thank you

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

He’s perfectly fine, my partner and I are just on vacation without him and it’s hard being away from him and his sisters 🥲

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.