disturbedmuffin
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- Dec 4, 2012
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- Bowser
Hello to all the bulldog mummies and daddies at englishbulldognews, I wasn't sure on where to post this but here goes nothing. My name is Carla, I joined about a week ago, Iām a bit of a shy person as well as overloaded with work/vet visits and havenāt gotten round to making a proper introduction yet, I've mostly been browsing the forums and reading all the posted articles, and I have to say this is an amazing site! You guys really love your doggies and know your stuff. This post is kind of like a merge of new member introduction/concerns about my dogs health.
Well a bit about me, my story is I have a beautiful English Bulldog name Bowser, I got him at 6 months old from a friend who I disappointingly have to say got him assuming having a puppy a piece of cake and then realized they didnāt have the time, but lucky me, I ended up adopting him. Now at 9 months he has matured into such a handsome little guy; with me, my bf, and our other boxer Jubba, our family is now complete.
But there are currently two things that are affecting Bowser's health right now, he seems to be suffering from allergies of some sort, and I canāt figure out what it could be, I live in Lebanon which is still a developing country, I know in the U.S. you have vets that specialize with certain breeds of dogs and itās all about finding a vet who has a lot of patients that are bulldogs. I wish I could say it was like that here but it isnāt, the bulldog breed isnāt too popular, and there are many bad practices in this country I have heard some horror stories, itās just terrible. Iāve been told by many people that the vet I am going to is one of the best, but I am feeling frustrated because there has been little improvement in his condition. As well as not having the luxury of being able to choose my vet, there is also little to no choice in dog food, mostly brands like Royal Canin dominate the dog food market.
Right now the vet told me to put him on royal canin (hypoallergenic) which is restructured protein, but we are 18 days into using it, and I have seen little effect on his condition, hes still has itchy paws, gets red easily, liquid shoots out from his nose when he breathes hard, and most recently a pimply rash on his tummy. I know Royal Canin is a real crappy food, but I just want to wait out a full proper month so I can say I fully gave it a chance, and move onto the next.
Ive already read about having allergy tests, and I would do it, I asked my vet but he said they used to do it but said they werenāt accurate and expensive so they stopped doing itā¦ despite what I have heard about the vets in this country, I was thinking of still going to check out some other animal clinics, and maybe there is another good vet somewhere out there, or at least one that can do allergy testing.
From what I know, he was originally on eukanuba when he started to get red at 4 months, there are been a 3% improvement since going on the royal canin hypoallergenic. Maybe in the future I can try a homemade option or even personally ship in a good dog food, but that is going to cost me twice the price in shipping fees, on this site I have read a lot of good things about fromms. So far I havenāt found any grain free dog foods in Lebanon.
The other thing that is bothering him is his eye, when he came to me he had a bad eye infection, and after the infection was treated and gone, he ended up getting cherry eye in one eye, and Entropion in the other, and he would continue to rub his eyes, maybe due to allergies? But he had his eyes fixed about 6 days ago, the one with the Entropion healed up perfectly, itās so clear and bright now, but the for the one that had cherry eye doesnāt seem to be getting better, the Vet didnāt remove the cherry but did the procedure where they stich it back in place.
Itās been 6 almost 7 days so far and it was looking better the last two days but now itās looking more swollen again, how long does it take usually to recover from that procedure? I told the vet and he told me to change the eye drops, but itās not looking any better yet. He also said if it doesnāt get better they will have to put him under anesthetic and remove the tear gland. But I really donāt want to put him under anesthetic again if I can avoid it. The only improvement I can note of is that there is a lot less discharge coming from that eye compared to the first few days, there is still discharge just a lot less of it, but heās been keeping his eye shut most of today.
I just feel like Iām doing something wrong and feel almost alone at times, itās just so frustrating when u want to make your dog feel better but you canāt, I realized I have just written a huge essay and I apologize, I just thought I should lay out all the details. Basically through all that rambling, the two core questions I want to know are:
1) Are the any recommendations on homemade food suitable for allergies? Despite not being able to find out what the allergies are?
2) What is the recovery time after the repositioning the cherry eye (tear gland)? When should I start to worry?
Im sorry if I posted this in the wrong place or anything like that.
Well a bit about me, my story is I have a beautiful English Bulldog name Bowser, I got him at 6 months old from a friend who I disappointingly have to say got him assuming having a puppy a piece of cake and then realized they didnāt have the time, but lucky me, I ended up adopting him. Now at 9 months he has matured into such a handsome little guy; with me, my bf, and our other boxer Jubba, our family is now complete.
But there are currently two things that are affecting Bowser's health right now, he seems to be suffering from allergies of some sort, and I canāt figure out what it could be, I live in Lebanon which is still a developing country, I know in the U.S. you have vets that specialize with certain breeds of dogs and itās all about finding a vet who has a lot of patients that are bulldogs. I wish I could say it was like that here but it isnāt, the bulldog breed isnāt too popular, and there are many bad practices in this country I have heard some horror stories, itās just terrible. Iāve been told by many people that the vet I am going to is one of the best, but I am feeling frustrated because there has been little improvement in his condition. As well as not having the luxury of being able to choose my vet, there is also little to no choice in dog food, mostly brands like Royal Canin dominate the dog food market.
Right now the vet told me to put him on royal canin (hypoallergenic) which is restructured protein, but we are 18 days into using it, and I have seen little effect on his condition, hes still has itchy paws, gets red easily, liquid shoots out from his nose when he breathes hard, and most recently a pimply rash on his tummy. I know Royal Canin is a real crappy food, but I just want to wait out a full proper month so I can say I fully gave it a chance, and move onto the next.
Ive already read about having allergy tests, and I would do it, I asked my vet but he said they used to do it but said they werenāt accurate and expensive so they stopped doing itā¦ despite what I have heard about the vets in this country, I was thinking of still going to check out some other animal clinics, and maybe there is another good vet somewhere out there, or at least one that can do allergy testing.
From what I know, he was originally on eukanuba when he started to get red at 4 months, there are been a 3% improvement since going on the royal canin hypoallergenic. Maybe in the future I can try a homemade option or even personally ship in a good dog food, but that is going to cost me twice the price in shipping fees, on this site I have read a lot of good things about fromms. So far I havenāt found any grain free dog foods in Lebanon.
The other thing that is bothering him is his eye, when he came to me he had a bad eye infection, and after the infection was treated and gone, he ended up getting cherry eye in one eye, and Entropion in the other, and he would continue to rub his eyes, maybe due to allergies? But he had his eyes fixed about 6 days ago, the one with the Entropion healed up perfectly, itās so clear and bright now, but the for the one that had cherry eye doesnāt seem to be getting better, the Vet didnāt remove the cherry but did the procedure where they stich it back in place.
Itās been 6 almost 7 days so far and it was looking better the last two days but now itās looking more swollen again, how long does it take usually to recover from that procedure? I told the vet and he told me to change the eye drops, but itās not looking any better yet. He also said if it doesnāt get better they will have to put him under anesthetic and remove the tear gland. But I really donāt want to put him under anesthetic again if I can avoid it. The only improvement I can note of is that there is a lot less discharge coming from that eye compared to the first few days, there is still discharge just a lot less of it, but heās been keeping his eye shut most of today.
I just feel like Iām doing something wrong and feel almost alone at times, itās just so frustrating when u want to make your dog feel better but you canāt, I realized I have just written a huge essay and I apologize, I just thought I should lay out all the details. Basically through all that rambling, the two core questions I want to know are:
1) Are the any recommendations on homemade food suitable for allergies? Despite not being able to find out what the allergies are?
2) What is the recovery time after the repositioning the cherry eye (tear gland)? When should I start to worry?
Im sorry if I posted this in the wrong place or anything like that.
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Is it possible he scrached his eye. If so that can be painfu and if he caught his eyeballl and cause an ulcer...which can be treated with lots of eyedrops. 
you r in the right place or sure so try and not be too anxious although I know that isn't easy. Miila had her eye tacked down and for her the swelling was gone almost immediately. I had been told by the vet that the swelling can even look worse than the cherry eye but in her case there wasn't much of it. She did have it pop back out 2 times while healing but that is all. Knock on wood, but so far it aunt come back and it has been over a year. She did scratch her eye while healing from the surgery. She was blinking a lot, like aging a hard time keeping it open. The vet put those drops in so they can see if there is a scratch and sure enough there was. If there is a scratch it needs to be looked at cuz from what the vet said they can heal fast but also get ugly fast as well. Might want to ave that ruled out now at her than wait, just to be safe. 
