Squinty Minty

Sunday I was just laying around, watching Friends reruns and Lifetime, when I noticed 2 things about Minnie: 1.) She wasn't pestering me/getting on my nerves and 2.) Her right eye was half shut and she kept blinking it. As the day went on the eye got worse...then yesterday she couldn't open it at all! We knew she especially wasn't feeling well when she voluntarily put herself in her crate in the middle of the afternoon.

So last night we took Minnie to the vet and it turns out her eye was scratched by something and then it got infected. Poor little girl!  So for the next 10 days she gets eye drops and medicine...and she gets to wear the Cone of Shame!

Although we feel bad for her and know she's not feeling well, it is pretty funny watching her try to do normal stuff with that cone around her neck - especially when she keeps crashing into the walls. She also found out that she can't chew any of her bones because she can't get her paws around the cone to hold them.  Of course I feel bad for her, but she just looks so funny wearing her "bonnet!" 

I have no idea how long this cone is going to last, but it's probably good she's wearing it because she keeps trying to paw at her eye. I don't really feel like paying $112 again for another vet visit/medicine, so Minn is going to have to put up with that dang cone!

I am a sad, sad girl with a squinty eye and a stupid cone around my neck!