Animal Eye Care - Wilmington

👀 Help us celebrate with Hattie who is 16 years old today! Happy birthday!🥳

👀 Later this summer we are on the move to our new office located at 1337 Military Cutoff Road. More details headed your way soon!

👀 Bebe has his own pep squad! Bebe’s family loves him so much he has a t-shirt made just for him. He has done great following cataract surgery and is seeing well! Go-Bebe-Go! 📣

👀 Remember our rabbit friend that sustained a perforating injury? Well she looks great today! The cornea is all healed up and she is feeling so much better. She got a clear bill of eye health from Dr Fisher today with minimal scarring and good vision! She is such a sweet rabbit and we are so glad we could save her eye and vision.

👀 Exciting news! Follow along for more updates and information.

👀 Hey everyone, we’re twinning today! Coco and Lexi are here for their routine check ups for relative dry eye. Did you know that tear film issues can come in many different forms? With relative dry eye, the pet makes enough tears but has a poor quality of tear film. They essentially break up too quickly. To help this, we boost their tear production with tear stimulator medications such as cyclosporine or tacrolimus. You could even call them the tacro twins! 😂 They are such good little patients!

👀 Happy birthday to this wild child! Gatsby is 8 years young. He came in for a follow up appointment after a parotid duct transposition on his right eye. This bizarre surgery transports the salivary duct from the mouth to the eye to help keep it lubricated. This is our best therapy for dogs that do not respond to standard tear stimulator medications with chronic dry eye. You can barely tell anything was done to his right eye! Good job Gatsby 👍

👀 Did you guys know we see species other than dogs and cats? Pretty much anything that has an eye problem we got you covered! This is Pippin and he came in for emergency surgery to fix a laceration of the right eye. Ouch! You can see on the picture where the iris is starting to protrude through the cornea. He is doing wonderful and already on the road to recovery.

👀 Now what is this dark spot? This disease is unique to cats and is called a corneal sequestrum. A sequestrum is an area of dead or degenerative tissue on the surface of the eye. This cute patient is a Sphynx cat. Did you know Sphynx cats are 8 times more likely to develop sequestrums than non-Sphynx cats? Also, did you know that the Sphynx cat originated in Canada in the 1960s? The weather in Canada is a bit chilly for hairless cats! Go Maple Leafs! 🍁 🇨🇦

👀 Ouch! What’s that dark spot? Shooter came to see Animal Eye Care for a dark spot on the surface of his right eye. A thorough investigation revealed it was a piece of plant material stuck to the surface! We were able to remove the material with a little bit of hydropulsion therapy and he is healing uneventfully. Plant foreign bodies are fairly common in dogs and usually represent some sort of seed stuck on the surface. We were happy to help this kid out!

Excellent pharmacy to get your compounded medications!

On this last Saturday in April we celebrate
🐾 World Veterinary Day! 🐾

Because we fill, compound, and flavor pet medications often, we are lucky to know and work with so many amazing vets in our area. We see firsthand their tireless commitment to and care for the animals you love. A big THANK YOU to all our Wilmington veterinarians, for all you do!! 🐕🐈🦜🐇🐁🦔

Port City Animal Hospital College Road Animal Hospital North College Road Animal Hospital Needham Animal Hospital The Sound Cat Veterinary Hospital Dineen Animal Hospital LaCroix Veterinary Hospital Eastern Carolina Veterinary Referral and Animal Emergency and Trauma A Country Vet Clinic Atlantic Animal Hospital & Pet Care Resort
VCA Wrightsville Beach Animal Hospital Coastal Carolina Animal Hospital Pine Valley Animal Hospital Leonard-Sykes Animal Hospital Wellspring Holistic Veterinary Care Sandy Paws Animal Hospital Myrtle Grove Animal Hospital No Place Like Home Mobile Pet Vet Highsmith Animal Hospital Animal Eye Care - Wilmington

👀 Dudley and Fennec came by styling in their matching polo shirts today! Too cute! We saw Dudley today for evaluation of early lens changes. Turns out all he needs is some reading glasses! Fennec was along for moral support. We love it when patients come dressed for the occasion. A big thank you to their mom for bringing them by today!

👀 Meet Grandpaw! He is sweet and has a grand personality for sure!! Grandpaw is here for evaluation of entropion or rolling inwards of the eyelids. Did you know that certain breeds such as Shar-pei, English bulldog, and mastiffs are predisposed to this condition due to weak connective tissue? Thank you for bringing this grand guy to see us today!!!

👀Chloe is ready for Summer! She loves riding in style and keeping her eyes protected. Thank you to Chloe’s mom for bringing her to see us today. She had a wonderful check up!

👀 Grace came in today for a recheck of her left eye after cataract surgery. She’s doing fantastic! She has a smaller non visual right eye that we also monitor. What a gorgeous girl she is!!

👀Zeus came in for his recheck and is all healed from his ulcer. He was very excited and loves giving hugs to the staff, especially Jennifer!❤️

Please bear with us as our incoming email has been down all day. We are working to fix it and apologize for the inconvenience.

👀 Lyra is ready for her close up! This photogenic little sphinx cat is seeing Dr Fisher for chronic squinting in the left eye. This can be frustrating in some cats and can be caused by anything from viral infections, bacterial infections, or even mechanical irritation from something rubbing on the cornea! She is a sweet little girl.

👀 Thomas came to see Animal Eye Care for a small and squinting appearance of the left eye. He was diagnosed with symblepharon, which is scarring of the tissue around the eye. Dr Fisher was able to trim the scarring and open up his eyelid to near normal! These are some great before and after pictures. Thomas is also up for adoption with the Purring Angels pet adoption. He is great with cats, and dogs, and can be delivered to his new forever home. Look at that face, he is a very sweet guy!

👀 Simba and Benji came to see us in all their Christmas cheer. Their mom was so kind and brought a Christmas gift basket for the staff to enjoy! Thanks for stopping by for a visit!🎄

Due to a traffic accident, we are without phones and internet. We will let you know when these are back up!

👀 Elmor Bleu is helping us open up and unlock the doors this morning! He just picked up the keys and went with it. We have been monitoring his eyes over the past few years for a congenital defect called an optic nerve coloboma. This is a picture of the back of his eye and the large white area is the coloboma. Bleu doesn’t let it slow him down!

👀 We got a visit from a Holiday Elf today! Lacey is very festive in her holiday attire. She lost her right eye to glaucoma, but doesn’t let it slow her down. She is ready for the Howliday Season and her left eye is doing great.

👀 Happy Holidays from Gizmo and Pixie! This cute pair came to see us for their yearly recheck. Shih-Tzus can have lots of different eye issues including extra eyelashes (distichia), keratoconjunctitivis sicca (dry eye), or even age related cataract. Thanks to their Mom for bringing them to see us today!

👀 Meet Finn! He has a little extra friend growing next to his eye. This is what we call a dermoid. Dermoids represent normal haired tissue in an abnormal location. They are present since birth and can sometimes cause irritation. Finn doesn’t seem bothered by his!

👀 Maverick came to see Animal Eye Care for his cherry eye surgery. Cherry eye is fairly common in bulldogs and other brachycephalic dogs. It is recommended to reposition the cherry eye to help prevent other problems down the line. He is a handsome guy and his brother Goose is waiting at home for him!

👀 Bridgett Kay came to say hello today! She has recovered from her cataract surgery and is ready for her close up. What a good girl!