at least thats what they look like... Tio regularly gets some gunk come out of his eyes that look like snotters. it doesn't seem to irritate him at all and mainly appears after he's been sleeping, he's got no problems with his eyes and no damage at all.  has anyone else had experience of this and is there a way to stop/reduce it? is it just the doggy version of sleep? he's got quite 'loose' eyes round the bottom lid

One of my American Cockers has dry eyes and gets alot of mucus. I put hypromellose eye drops in a couple of times a day, and it helps quite alot. He's had his tear production measured by the Vet, and we were advised that this was the treatment.

Dawn R.

I buy visco tears from superdrug, boots- any chemist for about a £5 for my dogs eye problem, use it about twice a day. :-)

did he have any other symptoms? tios totally fine appart from these, he doesn't seem to have any other problems with it, he just ignores them.

did he have something similar? they are rather yucky!

It was diagnosed as dry eye...so with keeping the eye with artificial tears makes the eye not get all snotty.

I had real trouble though when i left him at a kennel, most annoying thing is that I told the owner that it was vitally important to give him his eye gel, and that his eye can become infected and he still wasn't looked after properly, I noticed as soon as I came to collect him, so off to the vet and had to give him antibiotic eye drops after, lucky his eye was not permanently damaged as it did ulcerate!  Ive realised no more sending him away to private kennel- only going to stay at friends who look after his eyes properly.

The only thing I noticed was the eye discharge and the white eye ball had become rather red and sore looking.

This condition has never bothered my Snoop once- even when his eye was real bad from the 13 day kennel visit?

hmm. his eyes not blood shot but i might give them a go then. thanks for the tip.

what a horrible kennel! :(

Have you ever had a swab sent off as ' green ' usually means infection , even if it's low-grade and not causing too many problems .

its not green (sorry, snot must have suggested that lol) its off white to grey, never green. it doesn't seem like an infection, it just doesn't look like one if you know what i mean. it really looks like a gooey version of sleep.

anyone with loose eyed dogs seen something similar? calling sam and mastiff lover and other droopy folks lol!!

both of mine wake up with eye bogeys, I usually give them a wipe with salt water.  Occasionally Fagan will rub his eyes on the furniture to get it off - or sometimes they shake and it ends up half way up the wall

> both of mine wake up with eye bogeys, I usually give them a wipe with salt water.&nbsp; Occasionally Fagan will rub his eyes on the furniture to get it off - or sometimes they shake and it ends up half way up the wall <IMG alt=eek src="/images/eek.gif">

bingo! sounds exactly like it! so its nothing to be worried about?

my breed arent typically loose eyed although the one who gets it worse does have quite droopy eyes - I think its where he needs to put weight on in his head ;)

One of my little cavalier girls has the job of going round the whole dog family and removing all unwanted 'stuff' in eyes. She takes it very seriously and does an incredibly good job. :-)

Rent her out for a small fee :-)

>bingo! sounds exactly like it! so its nothing to be worried about?

I dont know to be honest, its just something I am used to, it doesnt really seem to bother them.

I call it eye peeps :-)

Some dogs have it some don't I've never worried about it

lol, how much?

thats good to know then, seems to be fairly common.

> I call it eye peeps

'Candle wax' in this house.

Picture the scene...You're late for work, rushing like crazy, grabbing your bag, heading out the door when you notice...from the knee down you have eye snot all over your nice clean trousers...sound familiar?

> from the knee down you have eye snot all over your nice clean trousers...sound familiar?

not at all, i have a dribbly beast, he goes with the jowl not the eye lol ;)

yeah she was a rubbish kennel she charges top whack for the pleasure of your dog staying there too- it was £25 a day plus £10 for second dog so £35 a day. On her web site they go on about their amazing walks and you can take in a armchair from home if you want for your dog to be happy & settled all I wanted was my dogs eyes cleaned daily!

To think I left Snoop for one night & day as had my fathers funeral in a local cheap kennel (£8.50 for 2) and came back to him with his eye's all gunky plus he did a poo after only taking 4 steps out of his kennel, so I know he had not been let out that morning for a walk & toilet! so vowed to myself then that when I booked a holiday 2 years later to pay for the best kennel around or so I thought. I told this owner about his eyes and the previous kennel but believing you get what you pay for, and this is why I am travelling 40 miles away from home for him to stay at the 'best'. I was crying on my drive home looking how bad he looked from his stay. The vet cost me £400 for his eye problem and then his neck problem- I thought he might have to be pts because of it all well his neck injury not his eyes. Well never again is my lad staying with strangers as he is good as gold having his eyes done.

thats awful! i hope you sent them the bill and a nasty letter!

No.... I know I should of.... I did talk about it on here at the time.  I was so upset and angry that I was just glad my dog came through OK put me off kennels for life....not sure if it was his breed as my Tinkerbell was with him both times and was great shes a cute little terrier mongrel? so anyone thinking of getting a bully think about what its like for kenneling them first if you like to holiday a lot- I think people who have never been around that breed namely kennel staff take them in the wrong light and don't trust them??

> think people who have never been around that breed namely kennel staff take them in the wrong light and don't trust them??

thats ridiculous still, if you agree to take the dog you look after it!

>> I call it eye peeps

> 'Candle wax' in this house.

Ooogie googies in ours, Sometimes they come out of the eye and sometimes sit in the corner.

Yes, my fox terrier has this all the time. I even found an old book on fox terriers that says that their eyes collect a lot of dirt, and the owner needs to remove it from under the lids daily!! She just has mucky eyes a lot of the time. When the muck reaches the corners I get it out with my fingers (eewww, as my family say, but I do wash afterwards!!) We use eye ointment if there is any sign of yellow in the discharge. She does have allergies, as I'm sure you all know by now, and this makes her eyes a bit bloodshot at certain times of year (now for example), but the muckiness continues the same regardless. I only have a test population of one, and no one in the family can see the need for two fox terriers, so I have no idea if it is really true that they often have mucky eyes!

Claire

> anyone with loose eyed dogs seen something similar? calling sam and mastiff lover and other droopy folks lol!!

HI :-D
Eye-boogers, yep, Buster has them!
Buster's eye's lids are very loose & droopy. I've never had his eye-boogers checked out by the vet (only a passing comment to the vet about them, vet wasn't concerned).
The colour of Busters eye-boogers is a sort of grey/brown, he isn't bothered by them, they are not little hard nuggets in the corner of his eyes, it's more like stringy stuff, more watery than snotty, if you get waht I mean? (sorry for the grossness). His eyes don't look sore and don't itch him or bother him atall (he only gets bothered with me wiping them, he hates his face being wiped and considering that is done many times a day for slobber-ridding, you'd have thought he would be used to it by now).
Oh, Busters eyes were checked thuroughly when he had a problem with them (thought to be from an insect bite), and there was no finding of dry eye/eyelashes growing in etc.

> from the knee down you have eye snot all over your nice clean trousers...sound familiar?
> not at all, i have a dribbly beast, he goes with the jowl not the eye lol ;-)

LOL, and if he did get you with his eye juice, it wouldn't be seen under the giant 'snail trails' that the slobbery chops leave all up the side of your thigh.

I generally have clean clothes from the knee down, from the knee up I tend to be slimed in at least 4 places, including elbows, bum and occasionaly a flicked slinger on the forehead

How old is Tio?
There is this condition, especially with young dogs that creates little blister looking things on their eye lids.
It makes the eyes water and sometimes they do scratch them as well but not always.
I'm afraid I'm not going to be very helpful as I do not know the english name for the condition!

It is pretty common in Leos(well not very common but common enough for me to know about it) and other big breeds, quite often loose eyelids have something to do with it as dust etc collects in the eye(this is what I have noticed about cases I know and what others have told me, not scientifically proven theory:) ).

Treatment for it is to give antibiotics and something vets used to do many years ago and have started to do again (at least in Finland) is scratch/scrape the blisters off and often this sorts out the problem. Sometimes the blisters come back but the cases I have heard most often than not, this has sorted out the problem especially if the dogs head shape changes while it grows as often this makes the eyes change as well.
I do know of older Leos who have had it reoccuring but again scraping the lids has sorted it out. I also know of dogs that have had this probably for many years but general vets have just been treating eye infection and told the owners the dog must just have sensitive eyes.
If his eyes have always been like this it could be he has had it since puppyhood as it really seems to be more common in young dogs.

If you look in his eye lids you might be able to see this uneven,"cobblestone" surface, but it is not always visible to the bare eye.
It depends how bad the case is and where the blisters are located and you obviously need to know what you are looking at!
Have a look in your own eye first as this will give you an idea of what the pink parts are supposed to look like.
Of course this might not be what he has but it is worth to have a peek in his eyelids as it might just be listening what you have told.

I shall try to google it and find out english name for it would probably be little more helpful to know the name of what I'm talking about!

Mr Beastly has eye bogeys every morning and sometimes makes them through the day too. He loves to snuggle his head into my chest and I always have to check for eye bogeys before going out :-)  Other than that there's nothing wrong with his eyes, and he's had them all his life. Tchi's look like jelly, little translucent globules :-D

> it's more like stringy stuff, more watery than snotty, if you get waht I mean?

the very things.

i am very reassured now. we have got them from time to time with the others but his eyes are much looser (as his head believes he a mastiff and not a bullmastiff lol) and he gets loads!

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pmsl

he's three. i'll have a good look tonight but i've had a shifty at them anyway to check it wasn't his eyelashes or anything and nothing like that was apparent (though as you say they are not always visable). his eyes aren't watery, just snottery at times. i'll have another look though, thanks for the suggestion.

these do sound a lot like t-pots, i think he's just boogery.