A cherry eye is not life threatening
but can cause irritation
and other medical problems
such as inflamed nose wrinkles
due to excessive teary eyes.
This way it becomes infected
and causes injury to the eye.
The cause of cherry eyes
is not yet determined with certainty.
Some think due to the hereditary predisposition
and the degree of folding in the face is a possible cause
Appearance
If a dog has a cherry eye,
you can see a pink lump
in the corner of the dog’s eye.
The size of the lump differs
between 0,5 and 1,5 centimetres.
The English Bulldog is known for
his unique face, a flat nose and wrinkly face.
These adorable characteristics
gives the Bulldog his unique appareance.
But unfortunately these cute wrinkles
can get moisture in them.
This causes the skin to get irritated
and when not treated it will get infected.
The area will become messy, dark and moist.
Also the infected area will stink,
which can really effect your cuddle time.
To prevent this you have to clean these wrinkles.
How often you clean them depends on the dog.
Some do very well if you clean the wrinkles only once a month.
Some need it on a daily basis.
Here are some tips
on how to clean those wrinkles
and what type of products to use.
Supplies Needed for Cleaning your English bulldog:
• Cotton balls or dry dog/baby wipes
• Sterile Eye Wash available at pet or drug stores
• Ointment for the nose
• Dry towels
Instructions Bulldog Wrinkle Cleaning
1. Clean your Bulldog’s wrinkles and skin folds with a cleansing wipe designed for dogs. Make sure the brand you use is soap and scent-free
2. Make sure the eye and nose area is completly clean
3. When you dry cleaned the wrinkles, wash it’s nose
and apply a good rub of ointment to keep it soft
4. Give your Bulldog a shower or bath using a hypoallergenic, soap-free cleanser. Pay special attention to those bulldog’s skin folds and wrinkles, rub your soapy fingers into the wrinkles, making sure to avoid the dog’s eyes.
5. Rinse your dog thoroughly to make sure that all soap and dirt are washed out from his wrinkles, then dry your dog with a towel. Make sure the skin folds are dry, trapped moisture can become a breeding ground for bacteria.
6. There are a lot of different products available, from shampoos to creams, sprays and tissues at the petstores, if you are unsure which products to use, consult your veterinarian.
Star Wars, the film series began on May 25, 1977 with the release of the film Star Wars. The movie became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon and after the 1st movie many other followed.
Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope
Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens
I think we can all agree that Star Wars is a movie with a major impact and a huge worldwide fanbase. I think there is just one thing that can make Star Wars even better …
How? Well ..duh… with Bulldogs of course. The Star Wars movies are known for all the different characters and there is no creature on this earth with more character than the Bulldog.
Below a couple of auditions for the next Star Wars movie 😀
Walking the dogs is fun
but weatherconditions like
ice and snow in the winter or
heat in the summer,
can cause damage to your dog’s paws.
Winter
Snow and ice can get stuck
in between the pads on your dog’s paws,
causing cuts and uncomfortably cold toes.
Even a small amount of build-up
under your dog’s feet can
pull the sensitive hairs underneath
and cause a noticable loss of traction.
In addition, rock salt, anti-freeze
and other sidewalk treatments
can leave your dog with painful, sore feet.
During the winter, you’ll need to take extra steps
to prevent problems like cuts, infections, sores and painful paws.
When you’re just coming in from a snowy walk
and wonder how to free your dog’s feet
from caked snow, the best way is to simply
dry of your dog with a towel
and clean your dog’s paws with a clean rag or dry wipe,
give special attention to the areas between the toes.
If salt is stuck in the fur
or ice between the pads
don not try to pull it of
this will be hurtful for the dog,
try to soak the paws in some water
and try again with some tissue or wipes.
To prevent these painful paws
you could also consider dogboots,
especially when you live in a climate
with regular snowfall this is adviced.
Dogs will have to get used to wearing dogboots
but it can be a prevention and solution
for problems with snow or in summer with hot pavements.
Some funny video examples here: Bulldogs in Boots
Instructions on how to Care for your Dog’s Paws:
Wash the paws with slightly warm water after going for a walk. You want to wash off harmful irritants like salt and prevent your dog from ingesting any of the chemical de-icers by licking their feet. This also eliminates any ice or snow that has built up between your dog’s toes that could make walking painful.
Inspect your dog’s paws after every walk, particularly when you’ve walked in areas treated with salts or other sidewalk treatments. Be sure to check between the toes and look at the pad for any cracks or sore spots.
Cut your dog’s nails and trim the hair on his feet regularly. Hair that is too long attracts snow and slush which can cause problems. Keep from cutting the fur too short, however, as it offers protection for your dog’s feet.
Apply some oil to your dog’s paws to help sooth irritated feet. Be careful not to apply too much or too often as pads that are too soft can also lead to irritation. You can also apply just before going outside as it can help protect your dog’s feet but take it off when you get back inside. Pet stores also sell special wax or other products that work the same way.
Purchase dog boots for your pet if you live in an area that gets a lot of snow and cold or if your dog is susceptible to problem paws. The boots fit over your dog’s paws and offer warmth and comfort. You may want to look for some that have added traction on the bottom so that you’re dog has an easier time walking on the snow and ice.
Treat any cuts, sores or infections that develop according to your vet’s instructions. If you notice that your dog seems to have painful feet even without sores, take a day or two off from walking in the snow.
Dogs need dental care! Unfortunately, dental hygiene for dogs is sometimes overlooked. Many people seem to just expect dogs to have bad breath, and few people brush their dog’s teeth frequently or do not brush at all. Dental hygiene is just as important to your dog’s overall health as things like nutrition or proper exercise. Help keep your dog healthy and pay attention to those pearly whites!
1. The Breath Test Sniff your dog’s breath. Not a field of lilies? That’s okay, a normal doggy breath isn’t particularly fresh smelling. However, if his breath is especially offensive and is accompanied by smell or iron (blood), a loss of appetite, vomiting or excessive drinking or urinating, it’s a good idea to take your dog to the vet.
2. Check the Mouth
Once a week, with your dog facing you, lift his lips and examine his gums and teeth. The gums should be pink, not white or red, and should show no signs of swelling. His teeth should be clean, without any brownish tartar.
3. Signs of Oral Disease
The following are signs that your dog may have a problem in his mouth or gastrointestinal system and should be checked by a veterinarian: Bad breath, excessive drooling, inflamed gums, tumors in the gums, cysts under the tongue or loose teeth
4. Tooth Decay
Bacteria and plaque-forming foods can cause build-up on a dog’s teeth. This can harden into tartar, possibly causing gingivitis, receding gums and tooth loss. Only way to prevent this is by regular teeth cleanings.
5. Canine Tooth Brushing Kit
Get yourself a toothbrush made especially for canines or a clean piece of soft gauze to wrap around your finger. Ask your vet for a toothpaste made especially for canines or make a paste out of baking soda and water. Never use human tooth paste with dogs. Special mouthwash for dogs is also available at the vets or petshops.
6. How to start brushing
Taking these steps will make brushing a lot easier for the both of you:
First get your dog used to the idea of having her teeth brushed. Massage her lips with your finger in a circular motion for 30 to 60 seconds once or twice a day for a few weeks. Then move on to her teeth and gums.
When your pooch seems comfortable being touched this way, put a little bit of dogtoothpaste or a paste of baking soda and water on her lips to get her used to the taste. Next, introduce a toothbrush designed especially for dogs. Toothbrushes that you can wear over your finger (or a clean piece of gauze) are also available and allow you to give a nice massage to your dog’s gums (see video).
7. Brushing Technique
Yes, there is actually a technique! Place the brush or your gauze-wrapped finger at a 45-degree angle to the teeth and clean in small, circular motions. Work on one area of your dog’s mouth at a time, lifting her lip as necessary. The side of the tooth that touches the cheek usually has the most tartar, and giving a final downward stroke can help to remove it. Once you get the technique down, repeat this once or twice a week. When you give raw foods you will have to do this more often if not every day.
8.Mouth Disorders
Getting familiar with the possible mouth problems your dog may encounter will help you determine when it’s time to see a vet about treatment, the most common dental problems are:
Periodontal disease This is a painful infection between the tooth and the gum that can result in tooth loss and spread infection to the rest of the body. Signs are loose teeth, bad breath, tooth pain, sneezing and nasal discharge. This can cause infection of the heart valves (endocarditis), liver, and kidneys.
Gingivitis
An inflammation of the gums caused mainly by accumulation of plaque, tartar and bacteria above and below the gum line. Signs include bleeding, red, swollen gums and bad breath. It is reversible with regular teeth cleanings.
Halitosis Bad breath, can be the first sign of a mouth problem and is caused by bacteria growing from food particles caught between the teeth or by gum infection. Regular tooth-brushings are a great solution.
Swollen gums
Develop when tartar builds up and food gets stuck between the teeth. Regularly brushing your dog’s teeth at home and getting annual cleanings at the vet can prevent tartar and gingivitis.
Proliferating gum disease
Occurs when the gum grows over the teeth and must be treated to avoid gum infection. An inherited condition common to boxers and bull terriers, it can be treated with antibiotics.
Mouth tumors Appear as lumps in the gums. Some are malignant and must be surgically removed.
Salivary cysts Look like large, fluid-filled blisters under the tongue, but can also develop near the corners of the jaw. They require drainage, and the damaged saliva gland must be removed.
Canine distemper teeth Can occur if a dog had distemper as a puppy. Adult teeth can appear looking eroded and can often decay. As damage is permanent, decayed teeth should be removed by a vet.
9. Chewing Toys
Chew toys can satisfy your dog’s natural desire to chomp, while making his teeth strong. Gnawing on a chew toy can also help massage his gums and help keep his teeth clean by scraping away soft tartar. Ask your vet to recommend toxin free nylon and rubber chew toys. Gnawing also reduces your dog’s overall stress level, prevents boredom and gives him an appropriate outlet for his natural need to chew.
10. Diet for Healthy Teeth
Ask your vet about a specially formulated dry food that can slow down the formation of plaque and tartar. Also, avoid feeding your dog table scraps, instead giving him treats that are specially formulated to keep canine teeth healthy.
Dental Cleaning by Your Veterinarian:
To prevent dental disease, your dog needs routine dental care at home. But to perform good home care, you need to start with clean teeth. Brushing will remove plaque but not tartar. So if your dog’s teeth have tartar, it is necessary for your veterinarian to remove it and polish the teeth. This professional veterinary dental cleaning is often called a prophylaxis or “prophy.”
A routine dental cleaning consists of:
Anesthetizing your dog.
Taking radiographs (x-rays) to assess the health of all of the teeth and bones of the mouth.
Flushing the mouth with a solution to kill the bacteria.
Cleaning the teeth with handheld and ultrasonic scalers. All calculus is removed from above and below the gumline. This is extremely important and can only be done if the animal is under anesthesia.
Using a disclosing solution to show any areas of remaining calculus which are then removed.
Polishing the teeth to remove microscopic scratches.
Inspecting each tooth and the gum around it for any signs of disease.
Flushing the mouth, again, with an antibacterial solution.
Optionally, applying a dental agent to retard plaque build up.
Recording any abnormalities or additional procedures on a dental chart.
Determining the best follow-up and home dental care program for your dog.
Very important for Bulldogowners:
Most Bulldogs can not tolerate certain methods of anesthesia, due to their flat faces they need more monitoring and need special sedation procedures (like having the dog tubed all times). Always ask your vet about this! It happens to often that a Bulldog dies because of wrong anesthetics, make sure you go to a vet who is specialized in brachycephalic breeds (shortnosed/flat faced dogs). The best way is to prevent, clean your dog’s teeth daily so a visit to the vet and anesthetics are not necessary
An example of a vet cleaning bulldog’s teeth without anesthesia
Tear stains are a common problem in the Bulldog breed. Most short faced and wrinkled breeds will need daily care for their wrinkles. Most of the time a soft tissue will clean the wrinkles from any dust or dirt. But sometimes the stain will not go away and the wrinkles can become irritated. The wrinkles will become a red/brownish color and their fur will be wet.
Important
A very important sidenote on this subject: In a lot of cases the wrinkles are not just dirty from playing outside or from active tear glands.
They can be irritated from eyeproblems, (like cherryeye or entropion), minerals in the water or allergies (like polls, grain or other food allergies).
In these cases no cleaning or cream will solve the problem. So if you are in doubt or when the methods mentioned below don’t work make sure to visit a veterinarian for advice.
Daily Cleaning Routine
So the first thing to do, is to adress the source of the problem and than you can begin to clean and prevent the tear stains.
Clean the wrinkles with an eyecleaner daily, get all the filth out those wrinkles and really rub your fingers trough their wrinkles, wipe away from the corner of the eye.
When the filth is gone, there will still be a stain make sure to completly dry the area after you cleaned it, this is really important!
Some people rub ointment on it after cleaning but my advice is to only do that when the wrinkles are clean and stainfree already and or when the fur needs to grow back. When their wrinkles are still irritated it is better to keep the area dry and clean.
Intensive Cleaning
When a general eyecleaner doesn’t work you can try a eyecleaner with antibiotics in it, make sure to ask your vet for advice.
You should only use cleaners with antibiotics for a short period of time. Use it to remove the stain and than proceed with a general eyecleaner and unscented cleaning wipes to keep it clean.
These methods can also be used for irritated nosewrinkles. If your Bulldog does not have any medical reasons for the tear stains they will be easy to remove with a couple of cleanings.
I clean my dogs daily with unscented wipes (their ears, nose wrinkles and corners of the eye) and they have no tear stains or dirty wrinkles.
When we get Bulldogs in the Rescue that have serious infected wrinkles, I use the wipes below I get from the vet and clean their wrinkles up to 3-5 a day. Once the infection is gone I use the regular cleaning routine.
Summary
• Make sure the tearstains do not have a medical reason (like eye problems or allergies)
• Clean your dog’s wrinkles on a daily basis
• Always keep the wrinkles dry, you can do all the cleaning but if they aren’t kept dry it will not work!
• Consult a vet before to exclude any medical reasons and before starting any kind of treatment
I also asked our members what their experiences were with cleaning tear stains. Since I have no experiences with the methods mentioned below I can not vouch for these methods
Here are some of the tips our members shared with us:
Thea van Oosten van der Wulp, Ali Bourdeau: Douxo pads
Sherri Holman-Griffin: I use baby wipes daily and a little hibiclens if they get irritated. My two love to lick each others faces and ears, so sometimes it’s twice a day cleanings from mom to get the extra slobber off. I also use coconut oil orally and topically
Michelle Allison: Diluted hibiscrub washed in the channels everyday keeps bacteria at bay
Kelly Adamchak Durdan: I thought i would never get rid of my Guys tear stains. I tried every thing under the sun, till my vet gave me Pharmaseb wipes.. these wipes have been heaven sent they cleared up there wrinkles took away the tear stains no more stinky faces..love these wipes
Dorinda van Kessel: Just a cottonball drowned in milk. It’s a wonder!
Betty Davey: I used plain old desitin for diaper rash.
Carry Vrolijk: I use Malaseb shampoo (available at the vet), Anointing pure, leave for 10 minutes and then clean with water (so get off) Then a thin layer sudocreme So I do it with my bulldog Ozzy, and it works
Paula Waterbeek: The stains can you remove with cooked water and betadine shampoo. The stains by the eye dont clean more than twice a week because when je remove the stains daily the tears production activaded its a normal proces off the eyes When the stains are verry wet , only dry tthe stains and clean only 2 times in a week.
Sebastián Trujillo: My bully had bad tear stains and a very bad soaring inside the wrinkle over his nose. I tried everything until a vet told me to use Savlon liquid. I used it once a day cleaning gently with cotton. Those tear stains disappeared.
Kimberly Simmons Daily: Antifungal wipes work best for us
Vanessa Hinojosa Eubank: Mal-A-Ket Wipes by DermaPet works wonders!
Inedabully Million: I use stridex medicated pads under the nose stock and for the tear area. The stridex kills any fungus, yeast and bacteria. I use it daily if there is a problem and then a couple times a week after that or as needed.
Sian O’Brien: Sensitive baby wipes, allow to dry then sudocrem or sensitive diaper rash cream, careful to avoid the eyes. Irradiates the yeast, soothes redness, smells good, reduces the swelling and works!
Shannon Haley-Anderson: Apple cider vinegar in their drinking water helps with tear stains also, but the root of the problem stems from what the dog is fed.
Sandra Bryant: Filtered water in a stainless bowl is what I used and Annabella’s tear staining disappeared. I clean her folds, ears and entire body with unscented baby wipes daily
Vonny Robertson: I bath my babies with Douxo antiseptic shampoo, plus have the Douxo pads. Tear stains are just from active tear glands, which can be that way from wind/dust/ my one puppy had tears already at 6 weeks old. Just got to keep the face clean firstly, but more importantly -dry. If you keep putting ointments or wet creams on, it’s just going to create a bacterial infection in the facial wrinkles. My bulldog vet says his motto is “clean and dry, clean and dry!”. Can’t make the tear production stop. Just got to keep it clean and dry
Jenna Adriaenssens: I use baby wipes to clean and baby powder to dry.
Jennifer Palacios: Baby wipes on the daily. Fragrant free of course. And I make a solution of part vinegar (small amount) with distilled water and clean the areas if needed once a day when it calms down every other day to weekly using a cotton ball pad.
Christina Smith: I also put couple tablespoons of braggs raw apple cider vinegar in my bullies water.
Annah V. Luker: I have a cat that cleans them daily! Highly recommended to get your bully a pet cat. For companionship & cleanliness. They are good friends
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