Alayne drove new arrivals Nevada the blind puppy and Brody the blind Lab to our vet clinic in Helena today. We took these photos shortly before Alayne hit the road.
Nevada is going in for an eye exam, general medical check-up, blood work and a spay. We are a bit concerned about the chronic discharge from her eyes. We’ve had puppies born without eyes before, but have not seen this kind of discharge.
So our vet Dr. Brenda Culver will be figuring out — probably through either exploratory surgery or ultrasound — what’s going on behind Nevada’s sealed eyelids. But otherwise Nevada is healthy, happy, and playful. Her eyes don’t seem to bother her at all.
(In the photo behind me are two of our three barns — that’s Lena’s Barn on the left and Scout’s Barn on the right. Beauty’s Barn is about 150 yards down the drive to the right.)
Here’s a close-up I took of this little girl today before she went to
the clinic. It’s hard to get a good shot of Nevada because she’s
always swirling around our feet and trying to climb up our legs!
Brody, on the other hand, is clearly having some kind of problem with his eyes. He seems uncomfortable, squinting at times, occasionally rubbing his eyes with his paws. He’ll lie on the floor with his eyes mostly closed … not dozing, he’ll be wide awake … but looking like they’re bothering him. Even in some of these photos I took today he was squinting. Yet they don’t seem red or inflamed.
During her eye exam on Brody a couple of weeks ago, Brenda detected through ultrasound that his retinas were detaching. We could be seeing complications from that.
Alayne left both Nevada and Brody at the clinic this afternoon, and we’ll post an update on these two adorable animals as soon as we have any news.
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