The Eyes Have It!
Fighting Ocular Disease and Preserving Terriers’ Sight
Prepared by
Jim R. Hulbert and Jeanne R. Mortenson
Your terrier’s eyes are its windows on its exciting, vermin-infested world; they are two of your dog’s most precious tools. Healthy eyes are crucial to its life as an alert, playful, energetic purebred terrier. These magnificent animals need to avoid eye injuries, infections, and genetically transmitted conditions. Breeders, owners, and handlers do their best to prevent eye injury and infection. But we do need to know more about controlling serious and inherited disease. We need to be able to recognize symptoms of serious conditions, to seek proper treatment if they occur, and, most important to the breed, we need to prevent these conditions.
In this brief review, we list conditions that affect most terriers, we give descriptions of procedures of eye examinations conducted by a specialist in veterinary ophthalmologist (VO), including some terms to help you speak your VO's language, we include a summary of the current treatments for common conditions, and we offer some thoughts on breeder responsibility.
Eye Conditions That Frequently Threaten Terriers
Ocular diseases found in terriers can attack structures in the front-
Article Concerning Terrier Eye Health
Reproduced here by kind permission on the
The Greater Twin Cities Su-Mac Cairn Terrier Club
Reproduced here by kind permission on the
The Greater Twin Cities Su-
