Puppy with damaged 3rd eyelid,thanks to the cat!!.

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Evening all.I wondered if any of you have had any experiance with this before??.I have a ten week old Border Collie pup who has steered clear of my mothers cat untill last night.The pup was winding her up and she took a swipe at him and caught him in the eye.She has torn his third eyelid ,so that it is a flap that is now sticking out of his eye.Dont worry i have taken him to the vets tonight and they will operate in two weeks when he is abit bigger and older.They have given me drops to put into his eye to stop any infection.The two options are.....the eyelid/flap will die off and will then be snipped off or they will try to re-attatch the eyelid.Have any of you had the same similar.I'm abit worried about the knocking out of said pup with him being so young.Any advice help would be great.Thankies.
 
No experience with flaps in the eye, sorry that it happened to you. And I'm not going to lie about that anaesthesia could be dangerous, but the % of cases where there's any problem is very low, and there's many times that the vets manages to solve the situation, even when problems do show up.

And they're getting better and better on adapting the anaesthesia to different situations, I wrote recently in a reply to another thread, about how the vets had been able to operate one of my late dogs. She was 14 years and had a bad liver count, but she also had three old tooths that had to come out or euthansia weren't far away.
Since all the superflous drugs have to pass through the liver, the vets had to be very careful with the anaesthesia, but it went so well that later the same day she was more vital than she'd been for weeks (came home and went straight to the basket with chewies).

I think I've heard that Border Collies also sometimes could be sensitive to anaesthesia, just like Rough/Smooth Collies could be. But I know that as far as the Rough and Smooth ones go, at least the different vets I've met, have been aware of that risk, and adjusted the anaesthesia to it (probably = using more costly drugs).


As long as you give the eye-drops, serve a healthy food (make sure the B-vitamins are about the right amount, since lack of them can make the liver sick) and provide suitable exercise, especially for the brain, I think that's all one could do. + Not being nervous when taking puppy to the vet on surgery-day, if that's possible.
If possible make plans to go and sit in the vets waiting room for 15, 30 minutes with the pup a few times after surgery, so that your pup doesn't get any bad ideas about going to the vet in the future.


Good luck from Sweden.
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Poor puppy!! Our old farm dog had to be operated on at 15 weeks after she was attacked by the farm cats. There was an initial problem when they discovered she had a heart defect but she came through fine
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Thank you both for your help and advice.Sorry for the delay in replying.I was totally zonked last night and went to bed
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.He does not seem bothered by his eye at all and has not try to rub or scratch it thankfully.Getting drops in his eye are a whole new kettle of fish,little s*d.
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