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To: Ditter

My dog is deaf and blind...give your dog time to adjust to blindness...she was better learning with her blindness that her adjustment to being deaf...my gal is old but had learned to walk the walls in getting from one room to another, also finds doorways that way. Its been about a year, she went blind with a rare eye problem called SARDS. It can cause blindness within 12 hours or up to a couple of weeks. She lost her sight in 3 days....I made her a promise if she kept eating and wagging her tail, we’d take it one day at a time...When I put her on the chain to do her business she had no problem...they learn to use their smell to find things...she does bump into things from time to time but it doesn’t bother her that much....we go for short walks around the property, no more walks along the side of the road. she likes her walks.....She has been deaf for almost 2 years and blind since last fall...she wags her tail and I have to put her on a diet, she is getting fat as a pig......take one day at a time....

I was in a panic when she went blind, the only problem is I cannot rearrange furniture anymore. She even finds her favorite big chair she sleep on....but you do have to be care full of falling over her, give it time...she is scared also...


56 posted on 08/07/2012 7:51:01 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: goat granny

Did your dog sleep all the time when she first lost her sight? He growls at me when I get him up to go outside.


58 posted on 08/07/2012 8:06:41 PM PDT by Ditter
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