A few months ago, I noticed that my dog Marley was tearing from her right eye. It had made a stain below the inside corner of the eye. Her eye was not red and she didn’t seem bothered by it at all.
I suspected that her tear duct may have been blocked. We applied a fluorescein stain to the eye and failed to see any evidence that the tears were draining through her tear duct into her nasal cavity.
Marley was due for her annual dental cleaning. While she was under anesthesia for the cleaning, we flushed the tear duct.
I am happy to report that her eye returned to normal.
No more crying for my little girl!