We want answers: dog owner’s anguish over pet’s eye injury

A DISTRAUGHT woman is demanding answers after her pet returned from dog daycare with her eye hanging from the socket.
Lesley Elder has launched a desperate appeal for information and wants to find out what happened to her beloved Winnie who has had to undergo surgery to remove her eye.

The dog carer says shih tzu Winnie was mauled by a mystery runner’s staffie-cross dog on Sunday evening at Canford Heath before she dropped her home.
However the vet has told Lesley the injury to the six-year-old dog’s eye was not consistent with an attack.

Certain breeds of dog with shorter faces or bulging eyes are susceptible to their eyes popping out under trauma, known as ocular proptosis.
And now Lesley is desperate to know how her dog’s eye came to fall out and if it was caused by an aggressive dog, she wants to warn the public.
The 49-year-old mum-of-two said: “My heart is broken. They are my life saviours.
The pair rushed Winnie to an emergency vets where she stayed overnight to have her right eye removed at a cost of more than £800.
Lesley said: “We just want to raise awareness and find out exactly what happened to her.
“When you pay for a dog carer, you put your trust into them and don’t expect this sort of thing to happen. I feel totally distraught.”