Are there any recomendations for helping to remove red tear stains from a maltese .
I have been given eye solution but it is not for stains .
Thanks Sally

hi Sally
have a look at this click link to eye envy
and little dabs of vaseline (waterproofing) under eye area help too :)

Thankyou for the great advise Huskygal
Sally

Now, not that I've tried this or would recommend it yet, until I've heard if it works or not....

Apparently, so I've heard somewhere, used teabags reduce tear staining?????

Anyone else heard of that or am I just on glue? :-)

I give my show bichons a product called angelsglow, they have pure white faces now, if I stop giving it the staining starts to come back after a few days so highly recommend it www.angelsglow.com - although I usually get it from ebay at a reasonable price.

Linsxxxxx

I've used Eye Envy with 100% success, a friend of mine also used it recently with success, I would recommend it!

I've heard good things of Eye Envy but haven't used it myself. I find the best way with my Cav girl is just to wipe the eyes at least once a day so that the crusting and staining doesn't form. :-)

What I want to know is WHY some dogs get such bad staining. Is it like in Persian cats where the tearducts are bent? My Papillon (who of course does NOT have a flat face though!) is terrible for staining and I have often wished I had not picked the pup with the MOST white on the face, if I had picked one with more black it would not show up. It's such a shame because it makes him look dirty even after a bath and NOTHING will shift the stains no matter what I do. He was fine during the summer but now has got bad again and I'm wondering whether it is partially weather related, but also his eyes start to run when he gets excited and plays a lot, and so today after the kids playing with him all day and all the excitement over Christmas dinner and Christmas presents, he virtually has a brown face instead of a white one! It won't wash off and it doesn't dry like it does in my cats -with them you can comb it off with a flea comb as it turns to crust. He's been to the vet, his eyes are not infected or anything and we even had his tear ducts flushed out in case that was it, but no, nothing. It looks so ugly with big brown stains. Thank goodness he isn't a show dog!

My sable and white papillon also has very bad eye staining;  the tri, no problem.  I use Kleen Face from Dog's Stuff, which I found out about on the bichon frise website.  It does work but you have to use it daily.  I tend to forget and then almost wash my dog's face with it.  It then takes a few days to whiten up.  I also asked my vet about tear-staining and he said there was nothing wrong with my dog but that it was probably just sort of deformed tear ducts.  (http://www.netconnected.com/dogsstuff/index.htm)

Thanks, I shall check that out! Much appreciated.

Yes its not a breed thing, my year old bichon has quite bad stains when I don't use the angelsglow, my pup at 6 months still has none whatsoever. When I collected him from his breeder all other pups bar one had quite nasty staining at 9 weeks old. With my last set of bichons, two were 'angels with dirty faces' and one was a little toad with the whitest face you've ever seen! :D