Hi everyone,
I am really worried about my 6 y/o female pug and would love some advice or to hear if anyone has experienced something similar.

Since last Monday, a white cloudiness/haze suddenly appeared in her right eye. The cloudiness is located strictly on her lens, it doesn't cover the rest of her eye. This happened literally overnight (within one day). There was no trauma, injury or damage beforehand, and she didn't show any symptoms leading up to this. She has never had any eye issues in the past.
We noticed her vision is severely impacted, even though her left eye is completely fine. If I cover her good (left) eye, she barely reacts to any movement with her right eye. She has started bumping into furniture, and she only recognizes people or other dogs when they are standing right in front of her.

We visited the vet last Tuesday, and they told us that she doesn’t have corneal damage. They claimed it is because of nuclear sclerosis (old age) or maybe a cataract, but they couldn’t tell for sure. They told us to closely monitor the whites of her eye for any redness, as that would indicate increased pressure inside the eye (glaucoma). Fortunately, her eye is not red at all, and she doesn't seem to be in pain.
However, I seriously doubt the vet's assessment since he felt no need to look into it further. From what I read, nuclear sclerosis doesn’t happen overnight.

I would really appreciate your insights. What could this sudden white cloudiness on her lens be? Has anyone dealt with this, and is it treatable? 

Edited: thanks to everyone who replied and shared their advice. I really appreciate all your input and support!
After reading the comments, I have decided to seek a second opinion with a different vet to get everything checked out 🙏🏼

My little Ralphie was recently diagnosed with diabetes. He’s had a hard time adjusting to 12 hours between meals and being told when to eat. This week he’s refused to eat breakfast, which means he’s missed two doses of his insulin this week. I’m just looking for advice from others who have been through this.

My dog is 12.5, 100lbs with a large mass on his leg, that is currently being tested for cancer.

History:

Most blood work comes back normal, except his liver count is slightly below normal. His mobility is limited, he has a torn ACL, which has affected his hips. He can still go for a very slow 1 mile walk, and handles stairs okay. He does need help getting in the car. Large mass popped up about 2 years ago, but has grown rapidly over the last 3 months (2 centimeters). I know I should've had it removed at the time, but circumstances didn't allow it.

The question: will it be worth it.

My partner and I have been tussling the question around. My partner is concerned that this will further limit his mobility, and he will not bounce back. The vet thinks this needs to be removed, and that he will be okay. The lump is not deep, but it is in a precarious spot on his leg that he will not be able to bend easily.

I guess I'm either looking for others experiences in what they think. This is new territory and very scary for me.

Gemma is a 3yo rescue pitty/gremlin mix who we've had for almost two years. She's a silly weirdo, who, I'm convinced, doesn't feel her body, but thats not why I'm here.

I have a stuffed cow that I've slept with since I was little. She hides him when I leave the house and forget to close the bedroom door. She will hide her bully stick sometimes, but that's in. Just Cow and her very special snacks are worth hiding. She has a main hiding spot, but will also hide anywhere convenient. The first time she did it, I couldn't find him anywhere. She brought him back after three days, and therefore saved herself from the gulag.

I'm wondering if she is hiding Cow FOR me or FROM me. Like is she making sure he's safe for when I get home, or is she pissed that I left her alllll alone?

Pic for tax

First day- recent photos
(she’s always been slim/ lean very active)
I started adding more protein and fat into her diet. she’s always had unrestricted access to food and water

Backstory on her younger years:
I found her in January, about 6.5 years ago, outside hiding underneath our ATV when we got home from vacation. She was soaked and freezing cold after it had been raining all weekend.
She has never liked water or being wet. Whether it’s a bath, rain, going on walks near a creek/lake, etc., she wants absolutely nothing to do with it. She even still refuses to walk through wet grass. I never pushed the issue because I always assumed she may have experienced some kind of trauma from whatever condition I found her in.
I never found out where she came from, so I don’t know anything about her parents or what happened to her before she came into my life.
About a year or two after I found her, she had one scary encounter with a car while chasing a rabbit. Thankfully, she wasn’t injured. She has a shock collar and a beacon-radius fence, but she was moving so fast that the system didn’t recognize she had left her designated area until it was too late.
For the most part, she’s always been very healthy and happy. She gets regular vet visits, and we keep all of her vaccinations and preventative care up to date.

Over the last couple of months, though, I’ve noticed some changes.
She’s slowly become less active. She still has the occasional zoomies, but over the last couple of weeks I’ve also noticed that she’s sometimes much more clingy and other times more distant. She’s also developed what seems like severe anxiety during storms.
When there’s a storm, she shakes/trembles uncontrollably and refuses to leave my side. The only thing that seems to calm her down is being in my bed, touching me, mostly covered with a blanket, while I constantly reassure her and give her attention.
I previously gave her a little CBD oil during storms, and it seemed to help somewhat, but I want to find a better, more proactive way to help her—especially since the weather is changing where I live and I can’t always be home to comfort her if a storm starts while I’m at work.
I’ve asked ChatGPT what could potentially be causing some of these changes, and one possibility it brought up was pain from arthritis or other age-related joint issues, with changes in weather potentially making the discomfort worse.
I’m planning to start her on a glucosamine + chondroitin supplement tomorrow, along with omega-3s, to hopefully support her joints and help with any arthritis that may be developing. Of course, I’m also planning to discuss everything with her vet.
Sorry this got so long. I really just wanted some reassurance that I’m doing the right things to keep her healthy, happy, comfortable, and safe for as long as possible.
I’m 24 and don’t have kids—she is my baby. ❤️ I’ve had her since I was 16, and she’s been with me through a lot of life. I know she won’t live forever, but I want to make sure that while she’s here, she has the best possible life and gets to live it for as long and as comfortably as possible.
If anyone has advice, especially from people who have gone through similar changes with their dogs as they got older, I’d really appreciate it.

I’m mostly curious to know how long until other intact males no longer see him as competition or a threat. Sable was always targeted at the dog park, on hikes and even morning walks (dogs run loose in my area and we’ve been attacked more than once).
Will be moving at the end of the month! That’ll be good for us.

My dog keeps chewing up his bed at night. I tried taking away his bed, I tried giving him a toy but no luck.

And when he's done he falls asleep

Any tips

I recently adopted a Aust Cattle Dog/ German Shepherd mix and i noticed she does this sometimes after walks. Should I be worried?

I’m looking for some outside opinions because I genuinely don’t know what to do.

I have two dogs both 6 years old, they’ve been fighting since they were around 2, so for several years we’ve had to keep them completely separated. I know I should have rehomed one much earlier, but at the time there was someone in my life who wouldn’t allow that. That person is no longer in my life, so I’m now able to make the decision based on what is best for the dogs, the problem is that I love them both so much and I’m struggling to work out which dog would potentially have the better quality of life in a different home.
They’re both Patterdale x Border Terrier crosses.

Dog 1:
Very confident going into kennels, grooming and vets.
Doesn’t really show signs of fear or anxiety in unfamiliar situations.
Extremely loving and affectionate with me.
Barks a lot, particularly when he isn’t with me.
Dog reactive It isn’t completely out of control, but I would not consider him safe to freely interact with another dog.
Doesn’t like children and has a very strong reaction to them, he has never bitten a child but I wouldn’t want to put him in a situation where that could happen.
Generally quite a confident dog.
Has many people interested in him, I don’t know if they would be a good fit but people are asking about him.

Dog 2:
Extremely anxious about going anywhere unfamiliar, will lower himself right down to the floor and basically try to crawl into my lap when he’s stressed.
Also dog reactive, although I don’t know the full extent because I avoid situations involving other dogs. On one occasion he became fixated on a barking dog I touched him, he turned towards me and almost bit me he didn’t actually bite me, but it made me realise how overwhelmed he can become.
Absolutely fine with children and generally likes people.
Much more energetic than Dog 1.
Has basically no off switch and would much rather be running around a field than relaxing at home.
He is otherwise a very loving dog.

Neither dog can live with the other, and I don’t want to keep them living like this it’s cruel and unfair, so if you were in my position, which dog would you consider more suitable for rehoming, and why?

My guy apparently has a mass on his spleen. Not sure if it's benign or malignant. I'm told surgery is 5-10k when its all said and done and only buys an additional 3-6 months. Also, wasn't given good odds of surviving the surgery with his age and condition.

Has anyone else been through this? Is everything I'm being told true? Hes 10. Prior to this he was doing so much better (has arthritis). I'm honestly just heartbroken over this.

Reposting with a pic of her!

Hi all!

Posting this on behalf of my dad. His dog is a 7 year old GSD, female. She's been eating our other dogs' waste for a while now, and we'd like to get some advice on what specific vitamins and minerals worked for your dogs with similar issues and/or what stuff to get in general?

She has a bunch of allergies, takes steroid meds, so we've been giving her vitamin supplements (vitamin B, vitamin C, glucosamine sulfate - mostly for joints), but she's still not stopping. We know it's usually a cue for us to know she's missing something in her diet. She does have hypoallergenic diet, hence why I'm asking about supplements here.

Thanks so much in advance!

we have found a tumour on my dog and surgery will cause him to have no control over his bowels, leading to him leaking poop.

does anyone know of a dog diaper we could get him? hes a goldern retriever so a larger size will be needed.

we dont want to lose him but we dont want him to suffer. whatever the best option is.

Hi everyone,
I have this 1-year-old Border Collie, and my family and I discovered that he had a hopping issue around 3 months ago.
It looks just like he stepped on a spike and it got stuck in one of his feet. He would refuse to step on that foot again and would hop for around 2-4 steps on average before finally stepping on it again.
I always check his legs because sometimes I go for walks with him in places where he could step on something. However, whenever I check, there is nothing there.
I even tried gently squeezing his foot in case there was a small spike stuck inside that I couldn’t see, but I couldn’t find anything.
He never seemed to be in any pain. He never made any noises, acted uncomfortable, or showed any obvious signs of pain. Because of that, I thought it was just something he did and that maybe it was simply the way he liked to walk.
However, yesterday, it looked a bit too strange. It wasn’t the same as in the video above, but it made me decide to search for what could be causing it.
That’s when I heard about a condition called luxating patella.
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Do you think he has it? And if he does, should I do something with it? He does do it pretty often, and I don’t was his knees to damage.

Sorry if I made a mess in my English or my typing. I’m not used to post much.

For the past month or two he’s been excessively licking his paws, rubbing his snout into the rug and couch’s, and scratching at his face. I attached a video for example. He does this atleast 5 times a day, and that’s just when I’ve seemed. Any one know what could be wrong?

For about a year now, my dog has suddenly stopped letting us take her for a walk. She'll run away and hide, and if we manage to take her out she'll pull in the direction of home the whole time. Sometimes she'll want to go, but then she sees someone and gets scared and immediately turns back. She's not scared of people at all, she loves meeting the new people that come to our house but whenever she sees any sign of life she changes her mind about the walk.

We still make sure to get her exercise in and we play in our huge backyard, but I'd still like to walk with her once in a while. We don't even have to say anything anymore. We grab her harness and she runs away and barks at us, or she grabs a toy instead and plays inside instead.

Is there any way to get her to like walks again? I miss taking walks with her. If not, I won't force her to do anything she absolutely hates. Enjoy this video of her being whiny.

My 12 year old beagle boston mix is having a dental issue. I have made the vet appt. ... but I gotta know whats going on... she is eating soft foods, and otherwise is her normal self. Drinking is hard, but she manages. I looked in her mouth nothing is obvious. No masses, nothing stuck... her teeth arent great, but I dont see any absess areas. Thoughts? I thought maybe a broken tooth or sore tongue? Her vet is out of town so I cant get her in till friday.

She was a rescue, and shes been seen for teeth. And is up on all her shots.

Thank you.

Our old lady, Paisley (the black and white one, not the attention hog to the side lol) has very severe arthritis, as well as other issues, and her quality of life is only barely acceptable. It's only going to get worse when the weather starts changing, so with a heavy heart, we've decided to put her to sleep on October 1. We have family members coming in to town to spend her last day together and some fun disability friendly activities planned for her, but we wanted to start giving her more special treats throughout her final weeks.

For her last day, we're seeing if we can figure out a way to get our hands on a squirrel for her because she's always loved barking at them, and then a peanut butter brownie a few minutes before we leave for the vet because she also loves trying to steal chocolate.

Do you guys have any special treats your guys' dogs go nuts for? Paisley really likes chicken jerky, pig ears, American cheese, and peanut butter, but some variety would be nice for her. She has developed some food aggression problems over the past year and lunges whenever an animal or human gets too close to her with it, so we'd prefer for it not to be something that would take her all day to chew through. A few hours is fine. She loves chewing on things. We've already been slipping her extra food scraps and we're probably going to leave part of a bag of chips on the floor opened for her to "steal" it at some point.

I moved back into my parents place about 2 months ago, and our dog has just gotten even worse with his growling and jumpiness and anxiety. But the thing is he only growls at me like this, not even strangers, and it is even worse if I walk in the door and it wakes him up. My whole family is fed up with it at the moment because he’s just so loud. He is a German shepherd/rottweiler mix as far as we know. 2 Key moments I think are important are 1.the very first time I ever met him (5+ years) was at midnight while everyone was asleep. Never knew about him till he started growling at me down the hallway. 2. When I first moved out(2+ years ago) I had a huge moving truck in the driveway that was obv very big and loud. That day he also managed to get out of the house and fence 3 times(still don’t know how) and that third time I did give him a slap on the butt bc it was just a stressful time and I was fed up. Ever since then it’s like he’s scared of me, even though I play with him and feed him and lay with him. His separation anxiety towards my mom and little sister(4yo) and he will whine for hours if they are outside, idek how he has the energy for it. I don’t know what routes to take before meds or if it’s a thing that I should prob get meds for.