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The Maltese has pink eyelids

There was a knock on my consultation room. A thin young man said, "The ticketing man is here." I had never met him although he was working with metal work three doors from my practice.

It was really kind of him as the traffic warden, a retired man employed by the authorities would use his portable digital assistant to produce a ticket with a $30.00 fine for not having a valid car parking coupon. Actually, this retiree will make at least ten times his remuneration just by being diligently checking on cars and commercial vehicles in the industrial parks at odd hours and even overnight.

"Don't you drive here?" I asked the young couple of the Maltese bitch as they did not seem to worry. It is extremely costly to own a car in Singapore and I was not surprised that this young couple did not possess a car. 

"No," Mrs Chin said. "We took a taxi." I was surprised that the taxi driver did not mind the white dog with red eyelids being ferried in his taxi in an open bag. 

A large number of Singapore's taxi drivers are notorious for not wanting to transport dogs as they feel that the dog may vomit or dirty the taxi. For the Malay Muslim taxi drivers, dogs are not permitted on religious grounds. The subway train and bus operators prohibit the carriage of dogs and cats too although a small dog can be secretly put into the bag. It is really hard on the pet owners.

This had led to a new business opportunity for the pet-taxi entrepreneurs who use vans to transport dogs and owners at charges of around $50 per to-and-fro trip. This could be quite expensive and hopefully the economic recession and the impending relaxation of the number of taxi licences may provide more taxi drivers who don't discriminate against pet owners as customers in 2003.

I excused myself and rushed out to display a valid parking coupon just in time. My neighbours had a good watch group. 

As to why the Maltese had red and swollen eyelids, the cause was not obvious. She scratched her ears frequently for the past few days but the ear canals were clean. Mr Chin had used tissue to clean the ear flap but had not put anything into the ear canals. 

When the ears were itchy, he sprayed some anti-itch products purchased from the pet shop onto the ears but it did not help. Could the chemicals have been inadvertently sprayed onto the  eyelids causing an allergic reaction?

Mrs Chin had said that the bitch was around four months of age. Yet, the bitch had light brownish discharge from the nipples. This was a sign of false pregnancy and this bitch must be at least six months old.  

Some sellers do under declare the age of puppies as older puppies are not so valuable. 

Could the false pregnancy cause this bitch to hide under the beds to "give birth" and in the event, injuring her ears which became itchy? The dust and wooden splinters may also spread onto the eyes making them itchy too. 

Was food or the bleaching shampoo used be the cause too? Her back thighs were very red with inflammation due to her licking.  

This was a memorable case because the Maltese looked as if she had put on eye pink shadows to attract attention to the big black eyes, like some nineteen year old junior college girls going to the discos.

The cause of allergies in this bitch's eyelids could be due to the feed too but I suspect this could be due to the spray. False pregnancy would be a separate finding and would not cause pink eyes in this bitch. In any case, an anti-allergic injection would resolve all itchiness within 24 hours if treated early.

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