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What kind of cherry eye surgery does the breeder have in mind, there is removal and there is the 'pocket' proceedure.  We just had one done a month ago. We had removal, but first tried massage therapy to get the cherry eye to go back in.  That worked 3 times, the 4th time it was not going to go back in.  She plays rough (7 month old) with out male Boston, and that rough horsing around seemed to make the cherry pop out each time.

Her recovery was a matter of 24 hours at the most.  We had her sedated, not put under....extremely important for me. She was at the vet for a total of 3 hours, groggy for 6 hours at home, and feeling all better by the next morning!

I would not turn down a puppy for cherry eye.  While it looks awful, once it is fixed, either by removal or surgical replacement, it should not ever be a problem.  It does not recur except sometimes when tacked instead of replaced in a pocket, and the vet would re-do it usually at no addition cost.  So I would go for the removal or replacement.  Removal, if you're lucky enough to have a vet who does it, is usually done with local anesthetic and the whole procedure takes about 10 minutes.  Replacement requires general anesthesia.   I wonder why the Breeder hasn't had it taken care of yet.  Good luck.

With our 8 year old Bullie girl that stress brings on the cherry eye syndrome. Matilda had cherry eye surgery in one eye back when she was about 7 months old (all sorts of ailments were happening then), the other eye membrane only blows up when she is stressing. Weird, but sometimes Matilda will hold her poop back, like squeezes her butt cheeks (lol) she really hates to go outside when it's raining and if she holds it too long this cherry eye thing happens. I'm not I am explaining this very well. It's Weird! Lol