***** Customer Beware***** We went to Animal Eye Associates for eye surgery on our 7 month-old 80lb cane corso puppy, Cleo, who had cherry eyes in both eyes. The procedure was explained to my husband and I that if the eye pops back out naturally we would have to pay again which we agreed to. We paid them over $2000 dollars to do the surgery for both eyes. We got the surgery done on a Thursday and when we picked Cleo up she was heavily sedated. She was groggy on Friday, but after the sedation completely wore off on Saturday, Cleo started doing everything to get the cone off of her head which caused one of her eyes to pop back out. We called them and explained to them what happened and was told to come in on Tuesday. However, I called on Monday morning to see if we could come in immediately instead. When we went back on Monday I had to ask them for sedatives to keep Cleo calm while her other eye healed. When asked why we didn’t receive the medication from the start they said its not common practice, and that it was a judgement call. I spoke to the office manager who was less than helpful and she said that we would have to pay again (approx. $900) since her eye popped back out naturally which was incorrect. My husband and I even asked to speak to the owner, thinking he would be more reasonable and would work with us, given the situation, but he read from the same office script and refused to work with us. He ‘agreed to disagree,’ saying it popped out naturally, so we would have to pay again. Immediately after talking to him, I requested Cleo’s file and in their own report they wrote that “Cleo’s e-collar was completely destroyed and the suture was gone, so most likely she was too active and was somehow able to damage the surgery site.” After reading the negative reviews I see were not the only ones. Hopefully this review gives you an insight to Animal Eye Associates business practices and help save someone from going through the same issue. I would be filing complaints with all the appropriate parties moving forward and weigh my options for small claims court. Read Less

Don’t take your dog to Dr. Daniel Priehs at Animal Eye Associates in Maitland, Florida! He totally blinded my dog! I brought my dog to Animal Eye in Maitland because his cataracts were starting to interfere with his vision. He could still see but it was becoming more and more difficult for him. He is an older dog and I realized that there were risks for complications but I decided to take him there to see if they could help him see better. Dr. Priehs examined him and did several expensive tests, costing over $1,000.00, and told me that my dog would be a good candidate for cataract removal with a lens implant. Unfortunately my dog’s retina detached a couple of days after the surgery, which left him completely blind in that eye. Dr. Priehs told me that my dog had unfortunately fallen into the 5% of cases that has this kind of result. There was supposedly a 95% chance that he would do well. I took it in stride and asked Dr. Priehs about the chance of doing the other eye in order to restore his sight. Dr. Priehs also told me there would be a slightly increased risk of the other eye’s retina detaching since it had happened to the first one. I asked him how much of an increased risk and he told me it would be another 5% risk, making it a 90% chance that it would not happened to the other eye. With that we went ahead with the other eye in hopes of restoring his sight. The second eye’s retina detached and this left my dog completely blind. I spent over $7,000.00 for these two surgeries and put my dog through it ending up with nothing but a completely blinded dog, much worse than with the cataracts! He can no longer run and bumps into things all the time. I have to carry him from place to place and sometimes must hand feed him. It is a lot of work and so discouraging since my dog was very socially active prior to all this. After talking with other veterinarians and physicians I have come to realize that the risks were much higher than 5-10%. I feel cheated and lied to and I wonder if it was all just a money grab by Dr. Priehs and Animal Eye Associates. Read Less