There have been poodles and penguins with cataracts, a walrus with a corneal ulcer and a black rhino with an orbital abscess that seemed to want to kill anyone who touched him.
Dr. Daniel Priehs, a 30-year veterinary ophthalmologist in Maitland, has treated them all.
“You’d have a hard time naming an animal I haven’t,” he said. “Living here in Central Florida, we have SeaWorld, we have [Disney’s] Animal Kingdom, we have the Central Florida Zoo. And so there are a lot of animals that have eye problems.”
At his office — Animal Eye Associates, one of the largest such practices in the state — he and his two partners mainly treat dogs and cats for most of the same problems people have: cataracts, glaucoma, infections, injuries, genetic defects.