This morning while sitting with Dylan on the sofa, the sunshine shone onto his eyes, and I could see a white spot on one. I thought it was mucous first of all, but on examination it was fixed in one place. I bathed his eye, to no avail. So after visiting Mr Google I phoned the vet, and within an hour was in the surgery. He put orange dye in his eye and examined it, and explained the dye shows whether the spot is on top of the cornea or inside it. Apparently the cornea is only five or six cells deep so is easily damaged. He said it could be trauma, but it is inside the layers of cells, so might be a leakage of water or fats into the cornea, which apparently is not uncommon. We have some steroid drops, and a visit in Two weeks. Have to monitor it, and the other eye as well.
Poor Dylan 😢. He was very good in the vet. He's only five. The vet said if it was the latter problem he wouldn't go blind, but could see through it. I've got floaters in my eye after a torn retina and laser surgery, and generally they don’t obscure my vision, so fingers crossed. When we got home he had a good roll around in the snow, it made me wonder if he had hurt his eye doing that, it has been icy here for a couple of weeks.
Lesley