Good News For Buddy

Fortunately, when Sam bought Buddy down first thing in the morning his eye sight seemed to have returned. Good news.

8.30am. I called the eye doctor, they could see Buddy at 9.30am.

We left immediately, it was one of the outer eastern suburbs. We took Bruno he cuddled up to Buddy in the back of the car as if he was comforting Buddy. Buddy cuddled up to him too.

9.30am. The doggie eye vet was lovely, she reminded me of Jacinta Ardern. All the tests seemed to indicate Buddy was pretty healthy. He didn’t seem to have much wrong with him. No glaucoma, no detached retina. We already knew he didn’t have high blood pressure. We could have done tests for neurological problems, but, she found signs of infection in the back of his eyes, which is a good thing, in a sense, as infection can be treated.

She wasn’t a fan of the raw food diet. She said the thing they don’t really tell you is that if you are going to feed your dog raw food, it has to be human grade raw meat.

It seemed to be good news. A course of steroids and a course of antibiotics and it is thought Buddy will make a full recovery.

We can’t be sure what caused the infection, but it could be the raw meat we have been feeding him, which carries the risk of some kind of toxosis, especially kangaroo which we did give him from time to time as it is thought to be lower in fat. We may have done it to him.