Mysterious min-pin eye issue

So you already know I have a min-pin, her name is Alexis.  She just turned 10 a couple weeks ago.  Min-pins are known for having eye problems, and I've always known this but have not experienced it before.  She does have a white dot in the center of her right eye though that she's had for many years.  Vet said it was probably "fatty deposit" and it could be there forever, it could move around, even go to the other eye (how is that possible?).  So we've lived with this for years and it's never affected her at all.

Saturday morning, she wakes up and is unable to open her right eye.  I look at it and I see what looks like a scratch right above the white dot.   Her eye is all puffy and draining... and she keeps rubbing it.  So I call my vets and naturally, they were already closed.  I called the after-hours Emergency Vet and I get this voicemail that says they are closed and "do not leave a message". ??   So I ended up just rinsing her eye out myself with saline throughout the day and it did seem to ease her pain a little.  She already had an appt for Monday at her regular vets with a tech to get her nails done and I thought for sure I'd be calling in Monday AM to change that to a Dr. visit instead.

Anyways, Sunday her eye seems better but she's still got her eye closed a lot but she can open it.  And she was still rubbing it.   I kept rinsing it out with saline, much to her dissatisfaction.

Today I wake up and voila!  Eye is COMPLETELY FINE!  No scratch, no puffiness, no redness, no nothing.  I'm eyeballing her eye and she's looking at me like, what are you looking at??

Take her to the vets today and they said her eye looks completely fine.  So what do you think it could have been?  It looked like a scratch on her eyeball, and if it was something ON her eyeball, it wasn't moving.  Could it have been allergies?  Vet didn't have any idea since her eye was completely fine when they saw her.  Maybe it was God answering my prayers all weekend!

All I know for sure is I'm relieved and very thankful that she's ok.  Had me worried out of my mind all weekend!  I think worrying about her is going to be the death of me someday... lol

Doggy Futon!

I was out and about today and decided to make a quick trip into a second hand thrift store.  I love finding things I can recycle and do fun things with.  Today I found this black metal "thing".  What it is, I have no clue!  It almost looks like one of those log holders you put in a fireplace.  If someone knows what this thing actually is, please let me know.

Anyways, you know where my mind goes first as soon as I saw it.... Doggy Futon!!  I swear, my dogs have more furniture in the house than I do.  Anyways, it was marked only $3.99.. so I could not pass it up.

I brought it home, and gave it a good cleaning in the tub.

Then I made this cute little stuffed fleece cover for it.

Alexis had been sniffing it and checking it out as soon as I brought it in the house.  I finally let her at it.

I think it passed her inspection, what do you think?

And yes, Sammy checked it out too and gave it a test drive.  But his bed is higher up and he likes it better up there.  But this is perfect for Alexis because she can get up here all by herself!

If you have recycled something for your pets, please post a link!

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UPDATE

I'm unsure where the official "home" of this new futon is going to be (they have 8 beds in this room alone!) so I just had it on the floor next to me in my sewing room - and I just happened to look down and she's sound asleep on it.  She looked so cute I just had to snap a couple more pictures of her in her new little futon :)