How does your dog reacts to painful things?

With Duncan going through his allergy situation I have been giving him medication and eye drops. He has always been a trooper and let me give him the drops with almost no resistance but I can see he gets upset over it. Well last week I got a bad chemical burn in my left eye and was prescribed the same exact eye drops to aid in healing. I managed to get the eye infected and spread it to my other eye as well.
This stuff burns like hell when you first put it in and makes your eyes blurry for about 5 minutes.

This brings me to the question, how does a dog feel about his human when his human is causeing him pain 3 times a day. I feel real bad for Duncan because he must think I am punishing him for something, but I don't want to stop until his eyes completly recover.

 

I can't say for sure, but it's my opinion that it doesn't change their opinion of you! They might see the eye dropper and run for cover, but put that eye dropper away and they will be right back at your feet waiting to have their tummies scratched.

 

ahhh poor duncan, I dont have an answer for that. I think about that when Jake had to wear his helmit for almost 3 months. it wasnt painfiul, but look he would give me when I would put it on.

curious same drops what was the price difference??

I remember once I thought what I had in the fridge were prescription eye drops, it was for an infection, kept it there because cold drops felt good. well I also had a bottle of prescription ear drop in there, must have thought they were the eye drops and put them in, bottles were almost identical. I put them in my eyes OMG the most excrutiating pain. I thought I blinded myself since the ear drops had acid in them

 

My drops only cost 3 bucks but insurance coverd most of it. Mine are Bausch and Lomb and Duncans are Butler. Both have the same identical ingrediants, his were $20.00 or so.

 

I think as long as the good associated with you outweighs the bad they don't change their minds about you.
I have a cat that has to get meds, usually eye drops several times daily. He did start to hide from me in the begining but I made sure that lots of good things were associated with me....far more than the bad. He seems very forgiving even though he hates the drops.

 

I try and make medicating my dog as quick and easy as possible. Like when her ear infection flares up, I smother her with kisses and love while someone drops the fluid in her ears. She might twitch alittle, but then we rub her ear nice and firm so it feels good. She used to fight hard, but now she just knows the drill.
Dogs have a higher pain tolerance than we do, so the drops may not have hurt Duncun that badly. And maybe in his doggy mind he's thinking, mom knows best.

 

I never realized how painful eye drops were until after I had a 'mishap' with an American Eskimo that had some major diarrhea and wagged its tail in my direction!!!!...I ended up at the human emergency room....the bill...almost $900 to have a doctor look at my eye and give me a tiny tube of Gentamycin with instructions to 'place a quarter inch in eye every 4 hours'..... I could have got that from the animal hospital and told myself those instructions for free :shock: It was painful though and I couldnt see for about 20 minutes each time...no wonder dogs squint a lot with eye ointment/drops.
As for them relating pain to you, I have to say that when one of my own pets has needed anything painful doing, more so if it involves surgery or sedation I wont 'inject them' with anything (associate me with a needle sticking in their leg)...Ill play the 'nice one' and hold them, talk to them etc. I had to give my Rott shots twice a day and do regular BG tests for her diabetes, the insulin shots she didnt mind but as soon as saw the BG monitor she'd do sommersaults to get away from me....once that was put away though she 'loved' me again.

 

Eye drops aren't always painful. It probably depends on what is in them and how sensitive your eyes are.

 

Yes...I think so, Gentamycin does sting, probably for only a minute or 2 but it seems like much longer, Ive used BNP w/out cortisone for a scratch in my eye from my cat, my eye was extrememly painful through that but the drops didnt make it any worse.