Pot belly pigs eye is watering

Question
My pot belly pigs left eye is watering a brownish-reddish fluid and it's excessive.  The other eye doesn't so much.  I took her to our vet and he said because PBPs have "inset" eyes, they tend to do that and he told us to wipe it clean daily and apply an antibiotic ointment around the eye once daily. Any thoughts on this?  Her eye isn't getting better but we did lose the ointment!  I've got to find some someplace closer to us since our vet is 1 hour away.  Please let me know if you think this is normal or give me any advice that you can.  Also, white dogs usually have the same color of fluid coming out of their eyes, but like I said, my pig's is excessive.

Answer
Pot belly's do have eyes that are a lot of trouble, especially with watering. They get hair in them a lot, maggots now and then and all kinds of crud if they are not cared for daily.

You can get some eye wash like you use for contact lenses and rinse out the eyes daily with that. You do need to start her back on the same kind of ointment as it probably has an antibiotic in it as well as a steroid or another drug to help with the tearing.

The color of the fluid from the dog's eye and the pigs is from iron in the bloodstream. In animals it will come out in the body fluids, saliva, eye moisture, urine even, and cause a red stain around the area that leaks.

Some dogs get red hair around the vulva for this reason and white dog's get it around the eyes and vulva (in females) and the males will get it on the end of their sheath.

Bacteria also forms in the wet areas which adds to the stain and is why your vet gave you the antibiotic ointment for her eye.

So call your vet and ask them to mail you a tube or send in a prescription to your local pharmacy to pick up.
:-) Oink!