Melbourne EyeVet

28/08/2024

Introducing Dr Lizzie our new intern!She is holding poor Indy from who is blind from dry eye and pigment and has serious skin disease. Joanna from will be making sure that Indy’s problems get the treatment they need so she can have a happy life.

28/08/2024

Bentley, Buster, Norbert and Finn from Each has pigmentary keratitis and Dr Allyson has commenced therapy to improve their tear production and vision.

08/08/2024

Happy birthday to our wonderful nurse Maria!!

31/07/2024

Good luck Ieshia! Our beloved young nurse, who finished her training with us, is heading into general practice. We’re sure she will train the vets and nurses with all she has learned here!

30/07/2024

Happy birthday Dr Allyson! Her daughter was home from school today unwell. She had a horrible day with birthday cake, iPad in staff room and even patted a kangaroo!

25/07/2024

Great clip on dog vision (cats likely almost the same!).

Take a look beyond the myths and misconceptions of dog vision to learn how richly dogs perceive the world around them

16/07/2024

Congratulations Dr Tom on passing his membership examinations to the ANZ College of Veterinary Scientists in GP. He will now be commencing his residency program in Ophthalmology! 🙌👏🏻💪

02/07/2024

Japanese Chin day on our calendar yesterday. These are Gabby’s two Sunny and Leo 🩷💙

29/06/2024

28/06/2024

We wish Dr Hayley lots of love and luck with the upcoming birth of her second child. Have a restful maternity leave. We hope your new baby loves quick feeds and long sleeps!!

28/06/2024

Birthday blessings to nurse Leanne for Monday. It’s her last day before annual leave and we couldn’t miss out on a cake!!

26/06/2024

Melbourne EyeVet’s phones are playing up. Please email your query to [email protected] We are really sorry for any inconvenience and are working to resolve the problem ASAP. And gorgeous Brax says hello!

24/06/2024

Bee, Luna and Sven the Hungarian Pulis all aced their ACES eye exams today. Sven’s puppy also got some cuddles 🥰 🩷🩷💙

24/06/2024

Frankie had her 2 year post cataract checkup today 🩷

17/06/2024

15yo Schipperke George and 6yo Groodle Oliver came in with 12yo Poodle X Charlie as his support team. They made themselves right at home on the sofa in the waiting room.

30/05/2024

We welcomed Toby into care as an emergency intake last night…
He has eye ulcers and everyone was worried that he might lose his sight…

Our eye specialist friends at Melbourne EyeVet thankfully were able to see Toby today as an emergency case…
Toby was a very good boy and stayed still for Dr Allyson, Dr Chloe and Dr Casey to examine his eyes which is ace..
Toby needs several types of eye drops plus frequently oral meds..
And crate rest with a cone on his head…

Hopefully with intensive foster care nursing treatment we can avoid surgery…
We say thanks heaps to the Melbourne EyeVet Team for seeing Toby today as an urgency..

Toby ###
In Pug Rescue foster care

14/05/2024

Sweet Old English Sheepdogs for today’s cuddles!!

14/05/2024

Happy Birthday to our wonderful practice manager Gabby! 🥳💚

02/05/2024

All smiles for Wonky Georgie this morning in Bendigo with Dr Chloe. Her dry eye is very stable and doing well. ✨💚

26/04/2024

Wishing all our vets, and those all around the world, a wonderful International Vet Day tomorrow April 27th. We are very blessed with a caring, capable and dedicated team at MEV, and extremely lucky to have such a special support team of veterinary nurses.

24/04/2024

Happy belated birthday Dr Chloe!! We hope you had a wonderful week!

24/04/2024

Puppy cuddles 🥰 with Lily, Candy and Sparky! 🩷🩷💙

23/04/2024

Happy birthday Dr Maria, our first year resident!

08/04/2024

Attention breeders! ACES summaries are now available on the ORCHID ACES canine health data website. Log in normally, select ACES Breed Summary, then select year you want to search. For older data back to 2009 select ACES box along top line and select the pdf.
Abnormal examinations are listed and identification is protected. Please let Dr Chloe know if there are any issues and she can investigate.
https://orchid.ankc.org.au

06/04/2024

Tuna saying hey…
I arrived into Pug Rescue care with an ulcerated eye that I nearly lost and I had my 7th appointment with eye specialist Melbourne EyeVet yesterday…
After over two months of intensive foster home care including crating, cone wearing, administering eyedrops and oral meds multiple times a day…
Dr Casey (pictured) and Dr Hayley say my eye is saved and the ulcer is healed yay..
I’m so pleased as I like having two eyes to see out of so thank you to Pug Rescue and Melbourne EyeVet I say…

Tuna ###
In Pug Rescue foster care

Tuna had a superficial Indolent eye ulcer, that we noticed at her pound/shelter release, despite three weeks of topical and oral medication refused to heal so Tuna underwent a Diamond burr debridement in which a dremel-like tool to debride (remove the top layer of the cornea) of the ulcer to aid healing and Tuna didn’t need sedation as she’s the best…
A contact lens was placed onto Tuna’s eye to help protect it and she was prescribed more daily oral and topical meds…

Within a week from the ulcer being burred it decided to start melting her cornea and become infected because Tuna’s body isn’t very good at healing…
Perforation of her eye was nearing…

So multiple eye specialist appointments along with an extremely intensive regimen of topical and oral medications for the healing mission…
Because of how big Tuna’s ulcer has been since she arrived into care and her actual cornea not being viable for a corneal sliding graft (healthy cornea adjacent to the ulcer is moved into the defect to provide structural support for repair) and a Conjunctival pedicle graft (a thin piece of the conjunctiva (the pink skin that covers the white of the eye) is sown into the defect) also not being a viable option because it would leave her with little to no vision…
Intensive medical treatment, calming meds, crate and lead toileting and eating and a massive cone on Tuna’s head (Frenchies & pugs will push their cones into things in order to rub their faces/eyes or to push through out of barriers) has been needed to save Tuna’s eye…
Much work and stress but now that it’s healed we can let out a relieved sigh…

29/03/2024

12 months of memories! Congratulations on completing your internship Farzin. All the best for the future, from the Melbourne Eyevet team! 💚

29/03/2024

Farewell Dr Farzin! Farzin has completed his 12 month ophthalmology internship. We have loved having him as part of our team. His caring nature and happy face will be missed. We wish him all the best.

28/03/2024

Happy Easter to all our wonderful patients and clients! 🐣💚 Melbourne Eye Vet will be closed over Good Friday, Easter weekend and Easter Monday. We will be open for emergencies during this time. To speak to our emergency on call Vet, please call the main clinic line and follow the prompts.

27/03/2024

Sweet sibling pair, Ricardo and José were perfect for Dr Allyson today in Essendon 💚