Our latest rescue foster dog, another amputee.
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Yes! I can’t remember the exact words, but the animal ophthalmologist when they were trying to educate us and let us know that he will do fine and they even said for his type of breed.
She said dogs are not like humans and she specified, but I can’t remember. This was back in 2020 maybe like 2/3 of the senses or more is smell and I think hearing and only a small percentage eyesight.
It must be so rewarding doing what you do. I really can’t stress or emphasize that I felt like he was almost a gift to me to be able to give him such a good happy life. It was just so rewarding working with him. My wife even contacted a blind dog society in California and they got in touch with us. She also research things like our old house was large and it had a large staircase to the second floor. In her research she learned to put a rubber mat like a doormat at the top of the stairs of the second floor.
It took him maybe a week or less, and he was going up and down those stairs all by himself because he would feel the rubber mat when he got up to the top of the stairs, and even when he was walking around the second floor of the house it was really an open floor plan, but he knew as soon as his feet touched that rubber mat that was at the beginning of the staircase.
All kinds of things like that that you would never think of except for maybe you.
The main floor of our house had various textured flooring. Hardwood in the front dining room in front door, carpeting in the great room, vinyl in the kitchen and sunroom. Anyway, he always knew what room he was in and he would even put himself to bed at night in his bed in our bedroom meaning if we were watching TV and he got tired and just wanted to go to bed he would find his way to his bed.
At times, he did use his nose along the walls of the house, but he was never really disoriented. He always figured things out.
My wife just heard me talking, she also pointed out like clockwork. Get this, work at home workstation was on the second floor in a room, he knew she got off work at 5 o’clock, and it would never fail between 430 and 5 o’clock, no matter where he was in the house he would come up the stairs, go into her office room and sit there and wait for her to get done working. Because he knew it was time for him to go for his walk.
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hmmm, that could explain a lot of things about my old dog. We knew she had cataracts but she never walked into anything. But it was very easy to play little tricks on her where she couldn't find us unless we called for her.
AZjeff
$50 Site Donor 2023
Took Shorty out for his first short walk post-op. He's doing great and was raring to go. Since he had the injury for nobody knows how long it isn't much different to him, he'll work out the different balance quickly. Our main thing is to keep him on low activity level for another week so the incision heals up.
He decided he likes to sleep in the elder cattledog's bed which doesn't go over well. Cooper stands and barks at him and he just lays there and ignores him until I go show him a treat and he follows me away. The bruising you can see isn't visible when he's standing. I assume there's some use of clamps, the other amputee dog had the same thing along her incision.
The rescue had a DNA test done on him and the results came back the other day.
He decided he likes to sleep in the elder cattledog's bed which doesn't go over well. Cooper stands and barks at him and he just lays there and ignores him until I go show him a treat and he follows me away. The bruising you can see isn't visible when he's standing. I assume there's some use of clamps, the other amputee dog had the same thing along her incision.
The rescue had a DNA test done on him and the results came back the other day.
That's amazing fat biker. He's #6 foster for us.
wemay
Site Donor 2023
The 55 number included three new moms with their litters of 9, 8 & 7 pups.
