Rolling Dog Farm Blog

I took this photo today of Alayne with blind Stoney on the left and blind Allie on the right.  Both Labs are wearing cones for issues that cropped up over the weekend.  Allie developed what I thought was a corneal ulcer on her left eye.  We took photos Saturday morning and emailed them to our vet in Helena, Dr. Brenda Culver, for review.  Brenda agreed it looked like a corneal ulcer, and she gave us a treatment plan for the weekend that included, yes, the cone.

Here’s one of the photos I emailed to Brenda yesterday morning.  The irony is that we had been treating this same eye with medication for the past week because it was bothering Allie, and thought we had it under control.  It actually looked really good through Friday, and then bang, this thing erupts.  The white stuff is an edema, or fluid under the corneal surface, surrounding the actual ulcer.

On Saturday afternoon we noticed Stoney was licking and worrying her left rear foot … for what I suspect is an abscess that’s beginning to heat up. There’s no break in the skin, no blood, no thorn, but the skin between her paw pads is warm and looks red, and it was tender to the touch.  So we put her on some medication and fixed a cone on her head, too.

I’m taking both girls to the vet clinic on Monday.  In the meantime, it’s conehead city around here.

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On Saturday I took this wonderful photo of one of our awesome volunteers, Katie R. from Helena, who had just come back from walking Claude the blind Great Dane puppy.  (Yes, still a puppy!)  Katie had scrubbed and filled water tanks and mucked out barn stalls, and then finally got a chance to do something fun, like take Claude for a walk.  Thank you, Katie!

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