it loked great the day i got him....their was a little swelling but now you cant tell which eye had the cherry in it....

you can see is cherry eye on the left....
i have to get a after picture

Thanks for the post...and the compliment! Did your vet have you take any extra precautions to prevent dry eye since the gland was removed?

Tuffy's Mama

Hi Joe,

Glad to hear that the tacking is working out well for you! Thanks for sharing your story and for the feedback. It's much appreciated.

Tuffy's Mama

Thanks for the post! I will be seeing the opthamologist tomorrow....so we'll see what happens.

Hope your pups are all doing well!

Tuffy's Mama

We tacked. Figured we would pay once and if it came back out we would snip. Thought we should give Bella the chance to keep it. So far so good and looks great, it did take a few months to look good though.

I responded to your post yesterday on the general forum but I will respond again Oliver got his first one at about 9 weeks. I researched all options and many on this board also responded to my questions. We decided to snip it out. The main reason for me was that I didn't want to put my 9/10 week old puppy under anesthesia. It was very easy, we brought him in to our vet (VERY experienced and highly recommended bulldog vet), he took him in back, gave him a numbing eyedrop and snipped it out. They kept him back there for about 30 minutes so they could stop the bleeding and make sure he was ok. They had him in an e-collar when we picked him up. We actually took it off him when we got home and he never once seemed to be bothered by that eye. Unfortunately about a week later, the other eye popped. Again, we had it snipped out. If I were to do it all over again, I would still choose to have it snipped out.

We have bought 2 Bulldog's that came down with Cherry Eye.
Our Oldest of the bunch is now 7, she got hers snipped out when she was 14 weeks young and she has never had dry eye to date.
Our other girl also got it, It started in 1 eye so we got that snipped out then a month later her other eye started so she went back under and had it snipped also. She was 4 months young. And her eye's look beautiful, you could never tell anything happened to them.
We do use a very experianced Bulldog Vet though.

We tried massaging them back in only to have them pop out later, frustrating!
We do NOT regret our decision's and will have them removed in the future if it arises w/other Bulldogs.

my vet prefers to remove them as there is a 50/50 chance of popping back out....i would rater worry about dry eye then him going under a couple of times....

I have eight dogs. Three Chinese Shar-pei and five bulldogs. I had had a lot of experience with cherry eye. One that I was able to put back in myself, and four others that have had the eye tacking procdure done. I took them to an opthamologist and he did them as I had my first done by a vet and he did a terrible job. My dog ended up looking like an alcoholic dog. Never did any of them pop back out when the specialist did them.

If you have any questions about it just let me know. I know you had asked about recovery, with snipping there really wasn't any. They had the e-collar on him when we left the vet but we took it off as soon as we got in the car (he HATED it), and he never itched it or seemed to bother him at all. We tried to keep him from running around like a crazy puppy but really there is no recovery time. There are no stitches or anything to have to get removed. Also, our normal vet did it, by normal I mean bulldog vet, not an eye doctor or anything.

By the way, Tuffy is sooooooo cute!!!!!

Mary and Otto, Maisy & Apple
Marby Bulldogs

Thanks, Lona. Glad to hear you were able to massage one cherry I in. Our vet tried for two days and we did too but the darn thing keeps popping out. It seems that snipping is the way to go!!

Tuffy's Mama

Thanks for sharing your story. I kept looking for my original post but it disappeared!! Sorry I missed your first message. I also don't want to put my pup under G. Anesthesia and my breeder strongly advocates the snipping as well. I hate the idea of the ecollar too since my puppy is so active.

Glad to hear it all worked out for you!

Kim

Tuffy's Mama

Glad to hear you've had success! We have an appointment with an eye specialist tomorrow just to see what they have to say. Did a regular vet do your snipping or was it an eye doc? Our vet, who has a lot of experience with bulldogs says he's been doing the procedure for years and he doesn't even think an eye specialist will do a standard snipping.

Tuffy's Mama

Thanks for the advice! My breeder said she's seen a worse dry eye from tacking than she's seen from having it removed. How long was the recovering after Charlie's was removed...?

Tuffy's Mama

Glad to hear the second time was a charm for Lily. I can't believe her first family wanted to have her put down because of it! Thanks for sharing your story.

Tuffy's Mama

Lily had a large cherry eye when she was 6 months old, that is the reason her first family wanted to have her put down, when I adopted her the rescue group was having her spay before I got her, so asked them to do the cherry eye at the same time, it did pop 10 days later, also her spay opened---so I am thinking not a really good vet. so we took her to a eye specialist to have it tacked for a second time--- I have never regretted spending the money to have it done again by the specialist, never had a problem with it, I know that if you have it removed it can cause dry eye.

snipping.
Rocky, our first bulldog developed cherry eye as a puppy. Called our breeder and she suggested we take him to the Bulldog specialist she used. This vet is wonderful and we have used him ever since. At that time he was doing the snip procedure. Took less that 5 minutes. We were in and out. No recovery and no side effects. You could never tell he had anything done to this eye. As Rocky got older we did not notice any more dry eye issues with that eye then the other that had never had cherry eye.

Last year when we picked up Harley from our breeder he had developed cherry eye the night before we were scheduled to pick him up. I told breeder I would be most comfortable taking him to my vet. So we picked him up and scheduled appointment the next day at vets. Same vet, but now because of the "debate" he gave me options for both procedures. This time we opted for the pocket procedure thinking that preserving the glad was probably better. This required anesthesia, pain meds, lots of post op drops. This eye took months before the redness and swelling subsided and now although it looks almost normal we can still see a difference in this eye.

If I had it to do over I would opt for the snip procedure.

As a footnote - Harley had cherry eye pop out in his other eye and we caught it soon, were able to massage it back in. Happened for a few months every few weeks. Hasn't come out in at least 6-7 months so hoping he "out grew" it.

Rocky 1999-2009



Harley

All were done by an ophthalmic specialist, all were successful the first time, one dog did have a slight pink line (raised 3rd eyelid) showing her entire life but it caused her no vision problems..it was only cosmetic...and her prolapsed happened when she was just a few weeks old...had to wait until she was 16wks old before vet would do the surgery because of the anesthesia risk on young pup. He felt, and I agreed, that this was an optional operation and he would only anesthetize a younger-aged pup if the need was medical (versus optional).