My Dog Went Suddenly Blind Today

My dog went blind quickly, too, but was urinating a lot for the days prior. My dog had diabetes and was on insulin for a couple of years. If your dog has diabetes and it turns out that it has cataracts, you will likely need to either get surgery or run the risk of losing it in a couple of years. By surgery, I'm talking cataract surgery. I did not do that as my dog was old and we were not sure how well he'd do. That being said, when cararacts mature, at least in dogs, their eyes swell and are painful. When that happened, rather than take his eyes out, we put him to sleep.

Find out ASAP what your dog's problem is and go from there. Best of luck to you and your buddy.

Microwave radiation has been shown to cause cataracts and blindness in people. Some dogs will experience sudden health effects with exposure to RF emitting devices like wifi routers, DECT phones and smart meters. Neither people nor dogs evolved with the kind of EMR exposures found today in nearly every home. Unless your pets are making calls and surfing the web while you're away, there shouldn't be a need to leave these things on. If you had a smart meter installed recently, you may be able to "opt out."

Please take your animal to the vet. This really isn't something to ask or be answered on the intraweb.

Hope it works out.

I wonder what ended up happening with the OP's dog. Is she OK?

I've never had a dog go blind, but our 19-year old cat went suddenly blind shortly before having a stroke that put him into a coma, which he never woke up from. We had to put him to sleep.

has the dog ever gotten into large amounts of candy? Happened to my pug. She went blind litereally over night. She started having these weird spells and one time she suddenly froze solid for 10 minutes staring blankly into space. She didn't respond to us or anything. She ended up having diabetes and addison's disease.

Well, at least it will never see you put the shotgun to its head...

Last Edited by BRIEF on 12/07/2012 04:15 PM

Brief, you are so bad sometimes.

It's most likely SARDS, Sudden Acquired Retinal Deterioation Syndrome. The rods and cones of the eyes stop working overnight. It happens in pure breed female dogs after the age of seven. Sorry, there is no cure. The very same thing happened to our dog. She acquired glaucoma a bit later. Her eyes swelled up so bad, no meds helped. We had to have both her eyes removed because of the severe pain she was in. From the swelling. I say this not to upset you, but you need to know this is a distinct possibility. Your story sounds exactly like what happened to our baby.
You will need to retrain her. Get a clicker and have her follow you around slowly through the house. Talk to her and make more noise as she learns to memorize the layout. Do not move furniture. Instead, if she is about to run into anything, tell her to stop and turn as you gently prod her in a safe direction. After a few weeks, she'll be able to maneuver with little difficulty and much more confidence. Play with her, give her treats to keep her busy so she doesn't get depressed. And stay positive!
I would take her to an animal eye specialist. Most regular vets won't know what is wrong. And don't worry. With dedication and lots of love, she'll do great. Our baby did. Most people have no idea she's blind 'til they see she has no eyes. Best of luck to you!

The first thing that came into my mind when
I read your thread was: Insulin reaction.
Get your dog checked out for diabetes--
if it is caught in time, the eye problem
may be reversible.
I really feel badly that you are having
this problem. Please don't put the dog
down....You could work around this set-back.
Cheers!
SK

My pup had a rabies shot and went blind a day or do later. The fluid in the eye clouded up. It lasted about a week and then she was perfectly fine. Our vet, who is my sister, said that happened occasionally. She reported it to the vaccine maker and they gave her credit for the whole batch of vaccine.

Good luck!

FYI, she went blind at age 7, removed her eyes at age 11. She's 15 now and happy and healthy. Do not put her to sleep, there are many happy years ahead.

Your dog needs to be checked out by a veterinarian as soon as possible we had an elderly cat that went blind due to high blood pressure although it was not sudden perhaps your dogs blindness was not sudden.

Hi, We have a very similar problem to the ones above about our 6 year old Golden Retriever female.

About a week ago we noticed her eyes were looking more droopy than normal, so we took her to the vet.
The vet gave her some Atropine drops and we were told to go back a week later.
My dogs my best friend in the world and after 3 days she was not better, her eye looked cloudy and grey and my friends dog who was blind had looked just like it.
So I told my mom to go back to the vet, they weren't sure and told us to go to the medical center.

We got back from there last night and they told us one eye is infact blind, the other might go as well and I noticed it's looking like the first eye did a week ago.

Were going back today to do tests, I did not go yesterday, only my mom but the doctor suggested some pretty harsh diagnoses.

One was glaucoma, one was cancer.

The doctor did not suggest SARDS or IMR, so I told my mom to ask about that today.

Also, she has never eaten that much, and still isn't.

Altho she is drinking a lott of water, and she has been peeing in the house and where she lays..She never does that either and is extremely well trained.

My thoughts about her peeing was because she is just depressed and scared to move too much because she is becoming more blind by the hour.

She was always the most active dog ever too and playful, so maybe this is a huge shock to her and she is coping with it by not wanting to get out of bed.

Does anyone have any ideas on what else it could be?..I really find it disturbing that the doctor can write this off as cancer immediately but I guess we will know more after today.

For the love of god ^ THIS ^

Sorry to hear about that - our dogs are family to us, too. Let us know what the vet says...

My dog was diagnosed with diabetis 6 weeks ago and became blind over night because of the increased sugar get him checked out for a rise in sugar.

Don't waste big money on pets. If something like this occurs, just spend the fifty bucks and get it euthanized.

How old is your dog?

What did you feed your dog the day before this occurred?