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Canine puffy eye???

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Question
Sadie is a 4 year old Lab, Collie mix.  While letting her in this evening, I noticed that her eye looked weird.  Her eye looked bigger at first, but at closer look it was like the flesh on the bottom of her eye was all puffy.  It is late on a Friday night, what should we do until we can find a vet open this weekend.  She doesn't seem to be irritated, but are there any eyedrops we can use until we can get her in????  Any idea what is wrong by my description???  

Answer
she could have conjunctivitis. Though I cannot diagnos her- for 1, I am not a dr.

what you can do for now is use eye wash to cleanse her eye out to help soothe the irritation and use warm compresses.

please bring her to the vet on monday if she is not better.