Blindness can come from any number of reasons

Blind and deaf pets can live happy, healthy, quality lives. In fact, sometimes it's hard to tell them from sighted pets. They do, though, have their own special needs.
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Blindness can come from any number of reasons

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Some of the more common are old age, glaucoma, SARDS, cataracts. Some of the congenital include all the defects found in the homozygous genetically defective pup, which would include microopthalmia, anopthalmia (complete lack), starburst pupils, PPMs (persistent pupillary membranes) and abnormal tissue growth.
Some of the medical aspects of these conditions are medically treatable. But on the whole, the blindness is irreversible.
But living in the blinddog world is to live with magic, love, ability, love, agility, love, and watching a life get on with the business of being a dog, without ever once sitting around saying "Why? Why me?" They delight, they overcome, and they exceed and excel.
BlindDogs are magnificent.
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Re: Blindness can come from any number of reasons

Post by Pam (Riley's mom) »

Hi Karen. I thought I would mention that while researching Baytril I discovered that it can cause blindness in cats and that there are a couple of suspicious instances where dogs went suddenly blind for no apparent reason other than having taken Baytril shortly before the blindness occured.
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Pam, the most amazing things were happening

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dogs have gone blind from the anesthesia... for no apparent reason...
There are old threads here where we discussed it and never ever found out the why...
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