Hi All, Thanks for your kind thoughts. Its just nice to know other people care and can understand what you are going through when something like this happens. We appreciate your thoughts and comments.
I'm kind of keeping an open mind on getting a second opinion as the eye specialist said that he is almost 100% certain that she has PRA - he offered us the test to confirm it but he said that all that it would confirm is that she had the genetic version - she may not she may have a mutated version which the test would not pick up on but he said that its not going to offer us any form of options or treatment etiher way. He said that at the moment her retina is showing signs of deterioration which is outside the "normal" scale which means she has some vision at the moment. She has very slow blink reflexes already though and she has very dilated pupils.....
The place that we have been referred to regarding the Ocuglo is this place in Frodsham
http://www.eye-vet.co.uk/contact.html so I think we will try her on the supplement for a couple of months and then go in and see if they have gotten any worse. Lets hope this is something that can be slowed a little if nothing else.
I've already ordered a couple of books on living with blind dogs but it also might explain some of Poppys more recent behaviour where she has got more nervous about meeting new people (she was always the bravest of little dogs!).
To be fair I'm holding my hopes on the fact that she has always liked sniffing more than anything else (she does not like to chase balls) so I'm hoping she will be happy sniffing away just as much.
The vet said to us that she does not know that anything is wrong and that not all other dogs can see either. Thankfully its not a sudden lights off situation and as everyone has said she will have time to adapt. You know cockers though they can put on that sad face and then we get all upset and they get sad becuase your upset and round and round it goes so we just have to treat her like normal otherwise she is going to pick up on us changing the way we treat her.