Dog Cataract and Diabetes

Recently I have been noticing that Ting Ting's eyes have turned cloudy blue. At first I thought it was a reflection to the light,but now, it seemed to have taken over almost the whole eye.

So I did a little research on Dr. Goggle (Who else could give me free information and consultancy without charging a cent?!?!!?!?)

And this is what I suspect Ting Ting has got :

CATARACT.

Fuck me.

Ting's only a puppy and barely a year old. HOW CAN???????? She's still so young. So many more dog years, broken shoes, torn plants to live through.

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?

Sigh.

She's not blind though, she still reflects to movement, or rather shadow movements, if i dare say.

Anyway, here are the reasons why Ting Ting would develop a cataract.

Why did my dog develop a Cataract?

• Most cataracts in dogs are inherited. The cataract may develop rapidly over weeks, or slowly over years, in one or both eyes.
• Like humans, dogs also develop cataracts with age (often after 8 years of life).
• Cataracts can also develop in dogs with diabetes mellitus or in orphan puppies on an artificial milk replacer diet.

It may well be 2/3 reasons of the above. It might be inherited (which is sad, hai).

The last reason is also very possible.

It was adopted from the pound when it was just a ffew weeks old so i should assume that it has been on artificial milk :(

I did a research on Diabetes Mellitus, and here's what I got :

Some diabetes symptoms include:

• Frequent urination - it used to pee everytime we saw it, either out of fear or excitement we thought!
  
• Excessive thirst - always finding things to drink
  
• Extreme hunger - always so freaking hungry! we didn't understand why, we thought it was being a normal dog lah!
  
• Unusual weight loss - Ting Ting is nothing but a bag of bones now ... :(
• Increased fatigue - and it's always sleeping or tired and wouldn't respond to calls at the end of the day.
  
• Irritability - always bullying Winky, but we thought she was just being mean!
• Blurry vision - we wouldnt know that but oh well.
  

OMG MY POOR BABY HAS DIABETES :(

HOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW????


knnbccb. WHYYYYYYYYYY????????

My poor baby (although technically its' daddy's baby, mine's Rose n Winky)

So sad.

I guess we have to bring it to d Vets to get her better :(

Pray that she gets well soon.

She's really annoying, but we love her anyway.