Head size in puppy

A grand pup! If you get fed up with her, you can put her in the post! :D

Just one tiny point, it's only a pic and I may well be quite wrong, but do have the vet check that she isn't slightly entropic. If I'm right, it's no big deal and fairly easily managed as she grows.

Thanks for the pic C_t! :)

Alec.
 
A grand pup! If you get fed up with her, you can put her in the post! :D

Just one tiny point, it's only a pic and I may well be quite wrong, but do have the vet check that she isn't slightly entropic. If I'm right, it's no big deal and fairly easily managed as she grows.

Thanks for the pic C_t! :)

Alec.
Thanks Alec - sorry I don't know what entropic means.
 
Entropia is where the bottom eyelid has a 'tendency' to turn in. Again, it could well be the photo and it may well be nothing but it wouldn't hurt to ask the vet.

Alec.
Thanks Alec - which eye do you think it is? I would be very loath to turn her down unless this was really serious as she comes from super healthy stock and has a lovely nature - and that has taken some finding. How is this condition treated if she did have it?
 
Now all of this is assuming that I'm right and I very well may not be!! How it's treated would depend upon on the severity. One year, and why I never discovered, I had quite a few lambs which were affected. For them I had a pair of purpose made tweezers and stapled the eyelid down. As the head shape develops, so it would mostly right itself but until then I would put in liquid paraffin drops and 'pop' the bottom lid out the right way.

I've never had a dog which was affected, but would imagine the same or a similar process for them. 'IF' the vet decides that there are grounds for treatment, then they will probably offer a very expensive course of drops. Liquid Paraffin works just as well, and as I say, as the head shape develops, so the problem would most probably rectify itself.

She'll be just fine!! :)

Alec.

ps. it's her Right eye (left on the pic) which has we wondering.
 
Now all of this is assuming that I'm right and I very well may not be!! How it's treated would depend upon on the severity. One year, and why I never discovered, I had quite a few lambs which were affected. For them I had a pair of purpose made tweezers and stapled the eyelid down. As the head shape develops, so it would mostly right itself but until then I would put in liquid paraffin drops and 'pop' the bottom lid out the right way.

I've never had a dog which was affected, but would imagine the same or a similar process for them. 'IF' the vet decides that there are grounds for treatment, then they will probably offer a very expensive course of drops. Liquid Paraffin works just as well, and as I say, as the head shape develops, so the problem would most probably rectify itself.

She'll be just fine!! :)

Alec.

ps. it's her Right eye (left on the pic) which has we wondering.
Thanks Alec - think it must be the light in the photo as I have another couple showing the right eye and to be honest it looks fine.
 
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