Dog Tear Stain – An Easy Solution to Tear Stain Removal
Dog Tear Stain on your canine is not only unsightly and often smelly – if you have never seen it before it can be quite alarming.
I know for me when I saw my little maltese puppy start getting these red stains down her face from the inside corner of her eyes to her chin, it freaked me out a bit. I was thinking how do I go about cleaning tear stains on dogs?
I was worried that she might have allergies or a bad infection or something worse.
I took her in to my vet and found out that dog tear stain on certain breeds of canines and felines is actually very common and nothing to get freaked out about.
It turns out that because certain breeds have excessive tearing in the eye region this leads to a wet area on the face that breeds bacteria and causes dog tear stain. Thus you will often smell a foul odor from the stained area and you will see the area where clear tears are draining become reddish and turn your pet’s fur and hair a rusty dirty color.
Some dog breeds that tend to have a predisposition to excessive tear duct wetness which leads them to get eye stain or dog tear stain are: maltese, cockapoo, poodle, bulldog, american eskimo, bichon frise, chihuahua, shih tzu, terrier, westie, lhasa apso, coton de tulear, havanese – just to name a few.
There are quite a few things that you can do to lessen the tear staining and my vet gave me some good advice about how to remove the dog tear stain entirely.