Ya know, you might test that puppy, too.
You said you guys were looking for a new gig. Maybe the dogs could support you? I know that’s one of my fantasies. Now, if I could get him to reliably come via hand signals.... fat chance, he’s an Akita. He needs to know “what’s in it for me”.
The flashlight I used was one of those high intensity LEDs, BTW.
She loves the cat laser.
When we were desperately concerned about her vision due to her head injury, we tried all sorts of things to see how much, if anything at all, she could see.
She does have some ‘glitches’ because of the mild strabismus left over from the injury but her ability to detect and track motion seems pretty good, considering.
The cat laser is one we got from PetCo and has a dot, a butterfly, a UFO and some other weird image I can’t recall but she does react to all of them, the dot being the easiest one.
Most of her toys are in the blue/green/yellow color spectrum to make it easier for her to see them.
She’s very trainable but doesn’t have the same instantaneous mental ‘snap to’ that Odin had at that age.
She learns easily but seems to have to focus herself intentionally when performing her commands...there’s a noticeable half-second ‘lag’ where you can almost see her ‘remembering’ what the word means before she does something.
[than again, Odin didn’t have his skull busted as a baby, either]
Bless her heart, she’s our ‘special’ little miracle girl and we adore her, quirks and all.
[but ~she’s~ not gonna make us rich, for sure]
:D