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   From: ThePuppyWizard@EarthLink.Net   
      
   Cataracts can be CAUSED by STRESS and CHOKING.   
      
   "Melinda Shore"  wrote in message   
   news:cs6gss$pnb$1@panix2.panix.com...   
   > In article ,   
   > shelly   wrote:   
   > >out of curiosity, can the cataracts be removed?   
   >   
   > I had them evaluated several years ago at Cornell.  The   
   > veterinary ophthamologist said that the cataracts wouldn't   
   > worsen (oops!), and from what she said I gathered that the   
   > cataract surgery (which would be one-eye only, for some   
   > reason) wouldn't improve the situation much.  I'm   
   > reconsidering now that he's clearly worse, but I'm still   
   > leaning towards not having it done.  In the meantime he's   
   > bumping into the other dogs, which pisses them off, and me,   
   > which I tend to think is funny.  I give him atropine drops a   
   > couple of times a week - that dilates his pupils and allows   
   > more light to enter around the edges of the cataracts.  It's   
   > uncomfortable for him when it's sunny so I give them less   
   > often in the summer, but this time of year it's a crapshoot   
   > whether or not we'll see the sun again until April or so.   
   > --   
   >      Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -   
   shore@panix.com   
   >   
   >                     Fibbers' forecasts are worthless   
      
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