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The Orthopedic Foundation for Animals (OFA) is an organization that breeders can register their dogs’ annual ophthalmic breeding exams. Owners and breeders can have a breeding eye exam performed by a boarded veterinary ophthalmologist (DACVO). These examination findings can then be submitted to OFA's Companion Animal Eye Registry (CAER) and in turn a certification number will be issued for that dog. This number can then be used to show potential buyers, breeders and researchers that this dog was free of heritable ocular disease. This certification is good for one year and the information from these exams is compiled to give ophthalmologists, researchers and breed clubs statistical data on the prevalence of specific ocular disease in a breed.
The purpose of the breeding eye exam is to help breeders limit the number of dogs bred with heritable ocular conditions. The American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists currently supports OFA for breeding eye exams. For additional information about OFA, please visit www.ofa.org. An OFA examination can be arranged for your pet through our hospital.
For those familiar with Canine Eye Registration Foundation (CERF) eye exams, please note that CERF is no longer active. All eye exam results are now registered through CAER. The examination protocol, interpretations and classifications remain the same.