LBass

Late to the "party" as I am, I'll just say that I'm glad that Punkin and AnnIE are doing better and better now. Punkin has discovered a toy she likes!

Yikes, Mother Nature did a fine job of covering the BOH without the roof-fall.

Jan, your car isn't under that pile fro the roof is it?

Punkin'and AnnIE are SO lucky!

Impressive, Your Lordship!

Best birthday presents! She is adorable.

Auntie Ann is an artist--she could so handle the DIY brindle!

Wiki, why so woe begone? You SCORED!

I misspelled "mortifying"...how mortifying.

I mixed up the dogs! How mortfuing! Ladies, you have my profound apologies.

My neighbors keep asking where Spirit is so I NEED a brindle Greyhound. Nate's night time routine involves potty trips heralded by playbows and barking. I can't Mom-voice him back to bed or ignore him because we'll wake my sleeping sister across the hall. If, for some truly bizarre reason, you'd like AnnIE to learn to add demanding nighttime barking to her repertoire, she can come here for a respite visit, learn a new tactic, and then return home, since we all know you'd end up missing her "wif your whole entire heart".

Beautiful girl, I'm so glad you're recovering so well.

Go, Willa! You've got this! Pun intended.

I looked at a number of those items when I got now 6 y/o Nate, also with PRA. I adopted Nate when he was 1.5 years old and his sight was pretty much gone at that point. So many of the options looked clunky and I couldn't imagine them working well or being tolerated well by the dog. Nate has a great sense of location in familiar locals--home and yard. When we travel, I lead him around the hotel room and he's OK after that. Always in unfamiliar locations he's on a leash, of course. Any time he's leashed, Nate just plows ahead with enthusiasm and he clearly views it as the responsibility of the human on the end of leash to make sure he doesn't run into anyone or anything or step off curbs, steps, etc. Every now and then at home he'll become disoriented. When that happens, I'll see him carefully, hesitantly moving around, kind of groping. At those times, I go to him and lead him to one of the super familiar "gounding" areas like one of his beds, the door into the yard, his crate. That seems to resolve the problem and he's oriented again to the map he has in his head. When something new is added in the yard, I walk him to the item and he seems to add it to his mental map--he really amazes me. I'd really worried that he might run into things and damage his eyes but honestly that's never happened. He did once bonk his nose on a corner and get a small cut on his muzzle, but he's never actually hurt himself.

That's a lovely walk down "remembory" lane with lovely, soulful Myka.

That's a great street name! Plus also, I love the "up ears" on AnnIE and Punkin.

Yesterday's update was a happy one. Perfect labs! Hope Mark is feeling better today. Gracie is sure to have a better day with her buddy home.

What a compelling and heartening set of messages and pointed coincidences. Max is taking good care of the humans he loves. Steve is beautiful. Welcome to the fun of "dressing" a black dog. They look fantastic is any color!

We'll join the backandforth for Mark and send smooches for worried Gracie.

Wonderful! New kids to get pets from and to love and listen with. Plus also, that coat and the red accessories are perfect for you, AnnIE!

Wiki, your Wild Thang! Happy birthday!

Sleeping with wild abandon! What a beautiful boy.

That last photo is so beautiful.

Oh goodness, he's gorgeous! What a temptation.