[Engel]

As if we didn't have enough issues with little Beau Sheep, now we have issues with Pebbles.

Going back a few weeks ago her depth perception is terrible. I know dogs depth perception isn't as good as ours but not this bad.

She had a eye infection starting so we took her to the vets and discussed this with the vet.

She looked into her eyes and said she can't be certain that there isn't something going on with the retina and brought up progressive retinal atrophy (PRA). We may need to be referred to an eye clinic.

With PRA I know there's nothing they can do about it and that it always ends up in blindness. We found out that she has conjunctivitis in both eyes so was on eye drops 3 times a day.

Vet also checked tear production which was very low but she can't say for certain that it is the fact she has dry eye OR if it's because of the infection, she had to take the infection into account. So during the next 2 weeks we've had to lubricate the eye 4 times a day and go back to her after the 2 week mark for her to recheck tear production.

On top of this she has a patch of really dry itchy skin. Despite change of diet, omega oils added to food, piriton, more brushing and moisturizing her coat it's not going away.

Since then, the conjunctivitis cleared up very quickly and we continued with lubricant for a while after as instructed by the vets.

We stopped it on the Thursday and by Friday her eyes were all gunky like before (no infection). We got another appointment as vet wanted to see Pebs in 2 weeks time which was this morning.

Tested for dry eye now there's no infection and Pebbles does indeed have dry eye (KSC) in BOTH eyes. As she's had no trauma to the glands it's highly likely that she has an autoimmune problem. She has got eye drops to stimulate the glands which she'll probably be on for the rest of her life as well as some more eye lubricant to go alongside until the optimmune starts working properly which takes a few weeks.

Pebs has another appointment in a few weeks time to see if the year stimulant is working or of it needs to be changed.