Flaves Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Stevie was born blind, so she has no idea she is 'special'. She is bold and confident, but also quite sensible. She rarely crashes into things because she likes to assess new places/situations carefully. She is best mates with my Standard Poodle pup and loves the kids. that was gorgeous to watch. She certainly is special - gorgeous gsd girl. Hope you have a lot of happiness and fun with her Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRADA68 Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Just beautiful and a beautiful pup I think she just maybe a foster failure. Good luck with the tracking hopefully she will excel in that for you. It is wonderful the breeder gave her a second chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nekhbet Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Well done Kirty and nice looking dog for her age too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isabel964 Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 That is really cute blind or not! And the fact that she is blind is amazing. I wonder if I should try a shell for my dogs. I'm so sick of buying things that my pets have no interest in LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poodle Mum Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Very cute Kirty......had a look hoping to see the std poo pup! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
german_shep_fan Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigsaw Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Very cute! Wonderful to see her having fun! Good luck with the tracking, I'm sure she'll be a hit at it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosaline Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 What a sweetheart. Looks like she's having a great time, and I agree with the other comments that if you hadn't mentioned it, you'd never know she was blind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluefairy Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Just a question, is it the same for dogs as it is for humans...that when you loose one of your senses the others become more heightened? I once owned a deaf kitten, a pure white one, but you would never have known, as she did everything like she could hear. Just got me thinking Lynn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirty Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 I'm not sure Lynn. I have read that normal visual dogs use their nose for 70% of their navigation, so I think its easy for her to compensate. We see a lot of blind dogs at work and most of them cope extremely well. Stevie uses her ears a lot at the moment, but she also has the house and yard mapped out very well by scent. Poodle Mum, will try and get some photos of Toby up soon. She is so big now! I gave her a terrible hair cut though which is why I haven't posted any for a while! Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trisven13 Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 I have a JRT who will be 12 next month (we've had him for 11 years). He has Corneal Dystrophy so started with SOME vision which has slowly faded over the years until he is now close to completely blind, if not completely. People are always surprised to find out that he is blind until the kids leave something in his normal path to the dog run and he runs straight into it . Even when that happens he is tail-wagging, happy and continues on like nothing has happened - he has recently learnt that my "Uh" means he is about to bump into something and he slows down . Interestingly Mac also LOVES to play with the hose and has done since a tiny pup according to his breeder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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