Animal Eye Center

09/19/2025

Meet Ms. Brown! 🐕 She’s ready for her night out on the town. 🪩 When we first saw her, both eyes 👀 had green discharge and she had an eyelid mass. We removed the eyelid mass and started therapy for dry eye. Now she’s feeling great and ready to live her best life❤️.

05/03/2025

This cute kitty has a manifestation of feline herpes keratitis called eosinophilic keratitis. The white plaques you see on the surface of the cornea are clumps of eosinophils. While this condition can be difficult to treat, with the right cocktail of medications, we can usually reduce flares. This patient received an injection of steroids under the skin and topical steroid therapy. 

03/14/2025

PLACERVILLE LOCATION COMING IN JULY 2025! 😻🐶👀

Also, we still travel to Chico once every few weeks :)

01/23/2025

This beauty presented for vision loss. West Nile Virus was the culprit, but the good news is we can halo manage the inflammation and help prevent further vision decline. Hopefully this eagle 🦅 will be back to catching rodents in no time!

12/13/2024

Check out this sweet girl, Gracie. She is rocking her Namsam goggles. She has Pannus, an inflammatory corneal condition that is very common in German shepherds and Greyhounds. UV light ☀️ can make this condition worse, which is why all of these patients, if they tolerate it😎, are recommended to wear UV goggle protection when outside. Gracie is doing fantastic! 

12/04/2024

This guy has cataractsssssssssssssss🐍. Fortunately he is still able to eat and navigate his enclosure ❤️.

11/21/2024

Eyelid masses can be painful and rub on the corneal surface. The technique of removing an eyelid mass under sedation is a less invasive way to treat this condition and doesn’t interfere with the eyelid margin. We use liquid nitrogen to treat the area after mass removal to prevent the mass from coming back. Good as new!!🐶

11/01/2024

Welcome Dr. Hurwitt! Dr. Hurwitt is going to be with us for one year and we are so happy to have her as part of our team!

09/25/2024

This photo is depicting fibrin (consolidated inflammation) inside the eye. This is sadly a common finding in Golden Retrievers with a highly aggressive inflammatory condition called Golden Retriever Uveitis. If you have a Golden and they have red eyes make sure to get them checked out! 👀🐶

08/08/2024

Animal Eye Center

08/08/2024

07/28/2024

Sometimes you’re born without hair! But this little nugget was born without hair AND tears! 😭. Fortunately, with some topical tear stimulants and lubrication these eyes are glimmering better than ever ❤️.

Congenital lacrimal aplasia and hypoplasia are conditions that prevent the patient from producing a normal amount of aqueous tears. The response to medication can vary, and occasionally these patients need surgery to re-route their salivary ducts to their eyes 👀.