Our new arrival, little blind Briggs, is having a terrible flare-up with his eyes today. We had noticed yesterday that he was sleeping a lot, more so than the other dogs, but we thought it was probably just because of the trip. Yet this morning it was clear his eyes were suddenly very painful. He was squinting a lot and had a lot of tearing, sure signs of ocular pain. I called our primary care vet, Dr. Brenda Culver, first thing. She suspected, as we did, that he’s going through a pressure spike with his glaucoma, so Brenda had me put him on some pain and anti-inflammatory medications. I took that photo above of Briggs this afternoon, and you can see how painful those eyes look. I bet he was probably sleeping a lot and was more subdued yesterday because he felt the pressure spike coming on.
In this next photo he’s not sleeping but actually rubbing his eyes repeatedly:
I had earlier scheduled an appointment for Brenda to see Briggs tomorrow morning in Helena, so we’ll have a much better idea then of what’s going on with him.
As much as his eyes were hurting, it didn’t keep him from looking forward to his dinner tonight. While I was writing this, Alayne was in the dining room filling the 23 dog bowls, and Briggs heard the food being stirred and came to life. He raced into the dining room and stood next to Alayne, baying at her until she finally gave him his bowl. A hurting Beagle is still, well, a food-motivated Beagle!
(In case you’re wondering, the 23 bowls are for the dogs who stay with us in our house and the cottages next to our house; the rest of the dog family is over at Widget’s House.)
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