We are starting to see cases of irritated and sore eyes in dogs, most likely caused by the ash content of the winds coming off the recent National Park Bush Fire.
\nWe are asking All pet owners to check their pet\u2019s eyes daily for the next 7 days and watch for signs of redness and irritation or any changes from the norm. All pets are at risk but especially the snub-nosed dog breeds and\/or any pet with large prominent eyes.\u00a0 <\/a> <\/a> <\/a>
\nUnlike\u00a0humans, a dog\u2019s Cornea\/glass of eye is very insensitive so they don\u2019t feel the irritation to blink it off. As a result, the injury is not noticed until significant damage is done to the eye. The eye is very delicate and doesn\u2019t heal fast or well so to preserve sight, owners have to be vigilant and take their pet to the vet promptly if there is ever any concern with an eye issue.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are starting to see cases of irritated and sore eyes in dogs, most likely caused by the ash content of the winds coming off the recent National Park Bush Fire. We are asking All pet owners to check their pet\u2019s eyes daily for the next 7 days and watch for signs of redness and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,1],"tags":[138,137,26,139],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oakflatsvet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oakflatsvet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oakflatsvet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oakflatsvet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oakflatsvet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oakflatsvet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2073,"href":"https:\/\/www.oakflatsvet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions\/2073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oakflatsvet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oakflatsvet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oakflatsvet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oakflatsvet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}