Pet Eye Care is a veterinary eye specialist on Anglesea Street in Hamilton Central. Its work is limited to eyes: diagnosis, medical treatment and surgery for pets, and remote consultations that help other New Zealand vets manage complex eye cases. The clinic uses a range of diagnostic equipment to examine every part of the eye, then plans advanced tests, medicine or surgery. Surgery covers eyelid and corneal conditions, cataract surgery, and gonioimplantation for glaucoma. The clinic also runs an equine service in Cambridge. Its ophthalmologist, Dr Kellam Bayley, is a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists. A second specialist, Dr Petra Price, consults remotely only.
Some practical points are set out on the site. Consultations and surgery cannot be booked on the same day, so surgical patients coming from a distance are offered other arrangements. For dry eye patients, ongoing medication is often prescribed by the regular vet, and the clinic can send Tacrolimus repeats by courier if the referring vet prefers. Those repeats need a 6-monthly reassessment, which can be done in person or by remote consultation with the pet's usual vet. The clinic has recently put a recording of Dr Bayley's webinar on vision loss in dogs online. The team describes cataract surgery as an option for dogs who are suitable and assessed early. For a Waikato owner whose pet has a complex eye problem, this is the specialist to see.