No matter how many dogs he sees in a day, Dr. Brian Skorobohach said he never gets tired of looking into their eyes.
“Every eye is different, and they’re just beautiful to look at.”
And it’s a good thing Skorobohach never tires of it, because he was gazing into a lot of canine eyes on Monday – 65 pairs of them, to be exact.
His Calgary clinic, the C.A.R.E. Centre Animal Hospital, was hosting the ninth annual National Service Dog Eye Exam Day, providing free check-ups for service dogs, along with puppies training to become service dogs.
Whether they work helping people who are blind, deaf or physically disabled, it’s vital that the dogs themselves don’t have vision problems.
Volunteer puppy-raiser Cynthia Hlynski said, “they spend a lot of time retrieving things that people have dropped from their wheelchairs, so vision is very important.”
And even after donating his services for almost a decade, examining the dogs’ eyes is always one of the highlights of the year for Skorobohach.
“It’s just fascinating to see,” he said. “I never get tired of it”.