One of my puppies has scratched his conjunctiva and i was bathing it twice daily and keeping an eye on it, if it showed any signs of infection I would have been to vets asap, this was sat and on monday i was struct with a terrible DV bug and tuesday in hospital. Leaving my OH a 2yro with chicken pox and 6 adult dogs 4 pups to care for as well as tooing and froing to hospital and relatives houses and child couldnt come onto the ward due to CP. Pups were cleaned and fed but his eye was overlooked. Fri morn when i got back noticed his eye straight away and booked him in at vets. Eye is very cloudy, swollen and vision is minimal, bit of discharge and slightly painful.

Vet was very pessimistic (not that the loss of his eye wasnt my main concern anyway) but ive spoken to Gwen who gave me advice but im wanting some more reassurances of sorts to his prognosis. Hes on drops and im giving him noroclav, eye cleaned and then drops applied every 2 hours, hes in a buster collar and separate from his litter mates so nothing catches the eye. Hes not in any pain although i have been given metacam, its hard to keep an 11 week old still and he doesnt stop but is happy to be about with us.

The vet wants him to be starved sunday pm and vets first thing monday to sew his 3rd eyelid together. I have no experience of eye problems what so ever, but i really dont want him to lose his eye!!

I don't know about a young pup, but I had an old dog that I adopted who had a corneal ulcer which had been untreated for a long time. The poor girl was always blinking and had that eye half closed. We tried treating it with drops and ointments but those didn't work, as it was too deep. She eventually went in and had the surface of the eye debrided, and then had to have the drops for several weeks afterwards.  Her eye went almost completely white afterwards and I thought I had made a terrible mistake, but in a few weeks it cleared beautifully and the ulcer had gone and her eyesight was fine.

Hope this helps.

Big round protruding eyes are always more at risk, and therefore I've had experience of ulcers and punctures and ruptures in both several cats and one of my Cavaliers -plus one Papillon, but that was due to a cat's claw. Stitching the third eyelids shut is usually a very good idea. So far I've only had one animal -a cat- lose the eye, and that was after a bad rupture that left absolutely nothing but gunk of the eye. I lost him this week to cancer aged ten years. The others have all healed well. Only one cat (who was born with cat flu and seriously infected eyes, was rejected by her mother, premature -long story) lost some vision in the eye. So it can turn out really well. Sticking to the strict treatment is the key.

The initial injury was just a small scratch and it does look to be clearing a little the cloudiness, hes no longer in pain but wasnt really anyway nor is it watery. Im abit more hopeful that it will heal fine and have no long term affects. My OH was going to make up that it was a war wound from hamzas hook and hes a military pug, and lost it in the line of duty lol.

My staff (10 years old so not a pup) has ongoing problems with eye ulcers.  she has now had one for around 9 weeks and it isn't getting any better.  Over the years and many ulcers later we have tried all the usual remedies -
painkillers and antibiotics - no difference
regular debriding - very little improvement
serum made from her blood and put in eye every hour for days - limited success
grid keratotomy - some success
3rd eyelid sewn up and a deep grid keratotomy - still in the process of this which is proving to be a miserable existence for her but worth it if it works.  she also has an eye infection at the moment so puss is oozing out the space between the stiches.

My dog has the added complication of not having many blood vessels near the surface of the eye so healing is very slow.  I feel like I am never out the vets at the moment and treatment alongside being sent to a specialist with suspected glaucoma and uveitis (sp?) has taken the costs to nearly £1K.

On a positive note, many dogs without the complications mine have respond very well to antibiotics.  The antibiotics should apparently heal any scratch at around 1mm per day so even quite big scratches can be fully healed in a week - allegedly! 

He has gone in for his op this morning, vet pessimistic again. Shot down any hopes I may have had :-( and said it looks worse. I don't know what to think now

My dog also had dry eye as a complication so it might be worth asking them to do a tear swab as this can delay healing and viscotears would be prescribed to help avoid friction.

Fingers xed for your pup, if it doesn't clear quickly it is a total nightmare to shift.

Our terrier X had the same sort of problem. Originally the vet thought it might be a growth inside his eye and he had to go in for an op so they could look at it properly. He had the surface of his eye scraped to remove some granular growths and then had the third eyelid sewn across his eye to protect the eye whilst it healed. He had to wear a buster collar to not only prevent him from being able to scratch his eyelid but also to help prevent him banging his eye on surrounding objects. Having the third eyelid sewn across his eye helped to prevent infection and if I remember rightly it also had something to do with the blood supply to the eye but I can't quite remember how it was explained to me.

Have to say I was really worried he would catch the eyelid on something or damage it so it wasn't an easy time for any of us. After seven days he had the eyelid stitches removed and his eye had healed really well. Our vet is still unsure as to what the exact problem was and we have to keep a close eye on him - no pun intended - and take him straight back if we notice anything out of the ordinary. That was a good few months ago and so far so good.

Fingers and paws crossed that your pup's problem can be sorted quickly and easily.