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SAVE SIGHT TUTORIALS AN INTERACTIVE PROGRAM FOR NEW OWNERS.

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What is right ( healthy ) and what is wrong with the eye of this cat?

Eyes are very delicate. We need to know more about the eye health of animals in our care than our own. When our eyes or vision are in trouble we tell the doctor, but animals rely entirely on owner observation and training to identify early eye disease and take first aid action.


What New Owners/Carers Need To Know

Why this program about the eye?
Save the eye and save money, gain satisfaction of doing the best.

  • What keeps the eye healthy? And what can you do?
  • What are danger signs for horse riders?
  • Simple safety horse eye tests for the rider
  • What do you need to know before you buy a horse?
  • How does the eye work?
  • Before you buy a dog or cat, what is the best head design?
  • What are dangers of the prominent eye dog breeds?
  • What do I need to know about my cat's eye?
  • Inherited eye diseases, how is each breed doing?
  • Why must we care about our purebreds?
  • What about long hair near the eye?
  • What dangerous eye/ body signs warn of disease?
  • Immediately after an accident, can you stand in for the vet?
  • What can you do to examine the eye at home / in the field ?
  • What you can do to make eye examination easy?
  • When to call the vet / when to call the specialist
  • How to make the vet eye visit happy for the patient

The Must Know:

  1. What are common Eye Emergencies?
  2. What warning signs of an eye crisis?
  3. What hidden eye diseases are hard to detect?
  4. FIRST AID
  5. What do you carry in the first aid kit?
  6. Help !! my pet's eye is out of its socket !!
  7. Home care, simple hints
  8. How to treat the eye of a difficult patient
  9. Is there a special risk for the breed and your dog's eye?
  10. Eye pain, does an owner always know?
  11. How to clean a mucky eye
  12. What does a red eye mean? What does conjunctivitis hide?
  13. What is meant by uveitis, glaucoma, dry eye, retinal atrophy?
  14. What makes the eye cloudy?
  15. Is cataract ever an emergency? Is there treatment for cataract other than surgery?
  16. What alternatives are there for antibiotics, cortisone?
  17. How does UV hurt the eye?
  18. Animal vision, how is it different from ours?
  19. Are early signs of vision loss easy to detect?

Further Information:

Want to know more?
Think about small group teaching. Get friends together and in touch with the author. Dr Blogg is an American trained eye doctor and committed teacher.
Copyright blogg 2002




Dr Rowan Blogg. MS, Dip Am Coll of Vet Ophth
Dr Rowan Blogg. MS, Dip Am Coll of Vet Ophth
Veterinary specialist in eye diseases/ tutor
Malvern Vet Hospital, 547 Dandenong Road Armadale 3143
Tel: 03 9509 7611

Last Update: 03/03/07 10:28 Views: 2783

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