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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Ok, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>So I need some advice. My vet says I'm over reacting, but I
think he is underreacting, so we are at an impasse. For the longest time now,
Drake has had VERY red eyes. HE has thick dark “eye boogies” and
very red eyes. I don’t know any other way to explain it. I thought it was
just a basset thing until this summer when Ahroo-ba came to us. His eyes are
normal clear and beautiful brown. Just like Drake’s used to be. But it
has been at least a year since Drake’s eyes were that clear and pretty.
The vet thinks maybe he just has seasonal allergies but its year round. Now I
know we live in MS, and there is always some allergen flying around, but could
it be something else? I don’t notice it all the time, but my mother has
been in town for a few weeks and points it out often (sometimes being rather
crude about it, but hey, she’s a good nana to the boys) and it reminds me
that it is there. This is not the first time my vet has told me to calm down
over something minor, wait until it is a problem before I panic. Drives me
crazy, as he is not the most reassuring sometimes. He is great with the kids,
but still, I have to catch things when they are small. So please, someone who
sees more bassets than just mine, what can this be?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Also, recently, Drake has become a very snarky little boy.
He and Ahrooba have always fought over food so they don’t eat together.
Sometimes they fight over attention from me and I have to separate. No big
deal. But in the past two weeks, Drake has been bowing up on Ahroo every time
he sees him. Cant put them out together, have to keep apart in the house. Once
night I was bringing one from the backyard and swapping them out. Drake bowed up
again. Then the fatal mistake, he bowed up and his lab brother Bo over some
food. Stupid idea little boy, Bo is alpha, and rules mighty softly until
provoked. Then he will take a plug out (hence the cute little white scar on
Drake’s nose). I know that Bo is getting up there in years, and perhaps
Drake is asserting his new pack order, but I'm not pleased with it. Since I
work and go to school, they are at home alone together a lot, and my mom can
only stay for a while at a time. I'm afraid to leave them together, any of
them, and don’t have the facilities to separate four dogs without one
being in the crate (and I'm gone far to long for that to be humane) So, any
suggestions?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Worried Bambi and boys<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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