This is Odin. I found him outside the gate of my house a few days ago, in a thunderstorm, soaking wet. When we first got him inside the fence, his remaining eye was so badly swollen, I thought he was blind in both eyes. Since then, he's improved.



Odin has a minor birth defect called Entropion. What happens is his eyelids are shaped wrong, and they push hairs into his eyes, damaging the cornea. It's an easy surgery, according to the doctors, but it's not cheap. There is also the matter of cleaning up and closing the other eye socket, which is ruined. And vaccinations. My best estimate, combined with the estimate from the Vet, is this is going to cost around 2000.00, all in.

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