The bulging eyeball
Pug eyeballs are very exposed. In fact, when I feel around Shelby's eye, very little of it is protected by the skull. Poorly bred pugs sometimes do not close their eyes entirely, and develop cataracts, and when they get over-excited, I have read that their eyeballs can possibly pop out.
I do notice that sometimes Shelby sleeps with her eyes partially open, and so I close them for her.
March 24, 2004 | Permalink
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Great site, Shelby is a cutie pie! I have pug pup also, his name is Hoagie. Just thought I would mention here that I had heard of the possibility of a pug's eye popping out as well, and asked my vet about it. He informed me that it can only happen if there is trauma to the eye, being over excited cannot cause this to happen. Thank goodness! I heard a story of someone shutting the refridgerator door on a pug pup's head and causing the eye to pop out. Ouch! I always door a "Hoagie Check" when I shut doors.
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Posted by: Lizard Princess | May 26, 2007 6:48:27 PM
Does anyone elses' pug have this eye problam...My pug, Knuckles, has his eye lid and lashes, fold into his eye, and I have to gently pull the lid back to fix it! I heard there is a surgery to remove the eyelashes, but this seems so mean!
Posted by: Theresa | Jul 1, 2007 8:39:27 AM
have recently adopted two beautiful pugs.
penelope is 7 and winston is 6. i have had pugs before but winston has a straight tail! never seen this before..does anyone know why?
Posted by: sharyn | Jul 7, 2007 2:28:48 AM
Mushu does that too! I found it quite strange and kinda freaky whenever I saw that. My friend used to have a pug, and he had to get surgery to close that part, because his eyes would dry out.
Now that Mushu is older, I don't notice his eyes being like that.
Posted by: Ana | Jul 11, 2008 1:15:16 AM
One of my pugs, Bella has a condition were her eye lids are too small for her eye balls. She repeatedly suffered from eye ulcers & always slept with her eyes open. Were she couldn't blink she never moistened her eyes so they got very dry & she couldn't blink away dust in her eyes as normal. After surgery to permanantly half close her eyes & artificial tear drops twice a day she is much better, thank goodness!
Posted by: Rebekah | Jul 4, 2010 7:51:49 AM
One of my pugs, Bella has a condition were her eye lids are too small for her eye balls. She repeatedly suffered from eye ulcers & always slept with her eyes open. Were she couldn't blink she never moistened her eyes so they got very dry & she couldn't blink away dust in her eyes as normal. After surgery to permanantly half close her eyes & artificial tear drops twice a day she is much better, thank goodness!
Posted by: Rebekah | Jul 4, 2010 7:51:49 AM
It is such a cute brand of dogs, my girlfriend have one of these cuteness.
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