Blind Animal - Blind Dog

Tess's Blind Dog Story

Tess very much likes to play with balls and always has done. To the point where she would turn into the dog of the Mask. Pestering and pestering you lol This was her very favourite play method though and you can see from the videos that she still very much manages to find her ball even if she is a Blind Dog. A good thing or bad thing depending on the way you look at it lol. Is that this ball talks. It helps Tess and other Blind dogs to follow it through sound. You can get it from the Amazon links within this site.

Tess also has a very special friend called Honey although she is not Blind and you can see from the videos it is a good job Tess is a Blind Dog or Honey would be in trouble!!!. Tess originally went blind in one eye after a bout of glaucoma which left her in a very unsettled state. The only choice was to have her eye removed, which cost an absolute fortune so a lesson for the future make sure you are insured... Then we got Honey and they both got on like a house on fire. Although Tess really didn't have too much choice to be honest. As Honey decided Tess would be her new mum despite whether she liked her or not. They both share a bed together and play all day long with all sorts of toys. Tess is able to get on with all manner of duties, walking, climbing stairs, she goes of her lead and follows the noises that Honey's collar makes. In fact she has only bumped into a couple of things and hasn't hurt herself at all. She is an absolute pleasure to have. Being a one eyed dog was very worrying though. As we knew that the glaucoma could spread and that Tess would be completely Blind and without eyes at all.

Then one day I took Tess out for a walk and turned around and she was wimping and crying and sticking to the floor. I had my kids with me and Honey so it was a handful trying to get her home. It was very obvious by the ghostly colour of her eye that she had gone blind in the other eye. I tell you the shock was quite considerable a Blind Dog how could we cope. I tried to get hold of my partner who was out on her horse and called the vets straight away. Carrying her home in one hand and trying to get my kids and Honey to behave in the other. Tess just sat very still on my lap and you could see she was in quite a lot of pain. My partner came back and we rushed her to the vets and all of this had happened in just an hour. The vets confirmed that she had glaucoma and a massive build up of pressure in her eye. We had to leave her there over night while we spent the night worrying sick. We talked for hours about whether we should keep a Blind Dog. Would she be frightened, would she be afraid, would she enjoy life, Would she be helpless against other dogs, would she be sad, Would a Blind Dog keep banging into things, Would she be thankful or sorry she was still alive, what would people say about having a Blind Dog. These are just a few questions that ran through our minds.

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