Hi everyone. I've got a 5 year old Yellow Lab male and when he came in
from outside this morning, I noticed his left eye is red and a little
puffy. I also noticed some wetness around the eye, so I tried to wipe it
with a washcloth but he kept closing his eye and squinting.

Any ideas what this could be?

Thanks

-Mark

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:49:51 GMT, Mark , clicked their
heels and said:

Hi everyone. I've got a 5 year old Yellow Lab male and when he came in
from outside this morning, I noticed his left eye is red and a little
puffy. I also noticed some wetness around the eye, so I tried to wipe it
with a washcloth but he kept closing his eye and squinting.

Any ideas what this could be?

Thanks

-Mark

most likely a foreign object of some sort - either he poked himself in
the eye with it, something poked him in the eye, or something is still
in the eye.

Unless you know what you're doing, you can make matters much worse my
mucking with the eye yourself. You can usually safely flush the eye
with saline, but any cloths or such could embed something further. A
vet call, if not visit, is definitely in order if you can' tell what
this is. If the eye itself is red, even more so.

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Janet B wrote:
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:49:51 GMT, Mark , clicked their
heels and said:


Hi everyone. I've got a 5 year old Yellow Lab male and when he came in

from outside this morning, I noticed his left eye is red and a little

puffy. I also noticed some wetness around the eye, so I tried to wipe it
with a washcloth but he kept closing his eye and squinting.

Any ideas what this could be?

Thanks

-Mark


most likely a foreign object of some sort - either he poked himself in
the eye with it, something poked him in the eye, or something is still
in the eye.

Unless you know what you're doing, you can make matters much worse my
mucking with the eye yourself. You can usually safely flush the eye
with saline, but any cloths or such could embed something further. A
vet call, if not visit, is definitely in order if you can' tell what
this is. If the eye itself is red, even more so.


Thanks for the reply. I don't see anything in the eye, but the eye
itself does look somewhat red.

I didn't touch the eye with the washcloth. I meant on the area below the
eye there was some wet fur. I just tried to wipe that for him without
touching the eye itself. In the process of looking at it and doing that,
that's when I noticed he was squinting (and he continues to do so even
while just walking around or sitting).

Another question I forgot to ask in the original post was if dogs can
catch colds from humans? I had a cold over the last few days and maybe
he caught that somehow?

Thanks.

-Mark

"Mark" wrote in message
. ..
Another question I forgot to ask in the original post was if dogs can
catch colds from humans? I had a cold over the last few days and maybe
he caught that somehow?

............no

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