OPHTHALMOLOGY RESOURCES

How to tell if your pet’s eye problem is urgent:

• Your pet’s primary care veterinarian recommends urgent referral or seems concerned
• Your pet is squinting (a sign of irritation or pain) and you don’t know why or you don’t already have a prescribed treatment plan in place
• Your pet is squinting and the treatment plan already in place has not led to improvement in the time interval you were told to expect
• Your pet has suddenly lost most of his/her vision (is bumping into things)
• Pus-like, green discharge, or blood-tinged discharge is coming from the eye
• Frequent rubbing/pawing at the eye
• Swelling of the pink inner eyelid tissue that is preventing normal eyelid movement or is becoming moderate to severe
• The surface of the eye has suddenly become moderately to severely cloudy
• If more than one of the above are true, then that usually constitutes an emergency and you should bring your pet to PETS ER asap.