Clean his or her own eye boogers?
We got my dog, Maxx, just after 8 weeks…so you’d think he would’ve learned the skill, but he will not touch them, or clean his face and lick his paws like most other dogs do. Is this an instinct that he just lack or are puppies taught this by their mothers?
The only time Maxx MIGHT attempt to free the eye booger is if the eye booger becomes insanely long and folds back on itself and irritates his eye…
Is there a remedy or should I stock up on Brawnys for the DIY?
Thanks!
Are dogs supposed to do this?
Honestly, I have a 6-year-old golden retriever and I have to pull the “sleep” out of her eyes every day. No big deal, just when I go to give her a hug or a kiss I say “hold on let mommy fix your eye” and I grab it and put it in the trash.
She rubs her face on the ground and with her front paws and for some reason the “eye boogers” hang on. I figured it was my job to clean them.
I used to have two chows. Both of them, much like cats, would take about 3 minutes, several times a day, while lying down, and rub their faces with their paw and lick their paws and clean their faces…including the sleep. Chows are notorious for having eye-lid issues, adding to an increase of eye boogers…but they didn’t know that!
Two springer spaniels here . . . At least once a day I have to grab each of them and say (in silly dog-talk voice, of course), “You got goo in your eye, we get rid of it.” On one of them it really shows because her face is half brown, half white.
If it stains their fur, there are cleanup pads you can buy.