Of Molly, Hamm said: "A lot of people, when she first went blind, told us, 'Put her down. What can a blind dog do?' And, honestly, I didn't know."
wow, can't believe people suggested he put the dog down.
Dogs are so much more adaptable than we are. My cairn
terrier went blind when she was about 6 and most people
when they first meet her don't realize she's blind. She toodles
around without a care in the world.

She navigates the backyard, by running along the fence line
or on my brick pathway. She seems to conceptualize that
concrete means direct path towards something. So even
being blind, I have to keep her on a leash, when not in a
secure area, because as soon her lil' paws hit pavement,
she'll take off running and exploring, obvious to the dangers
that await at the end of the driveway.

Within the house I try not to move things around, but being
an unorganized person, sometimes there may be some clutter
on the floor. If I see her about to run into some obstacle, I'll
just call out, "careful", and she slows down her pace and moves
around it. If she does run into something, it doesn't seem to
phase her, she just bounces off it and keeps going.

Her terrier chase instinct hasn't been diminished either. She'll
still chase the sound of moving water and on our last camping
trip she did her best to chase an armadillo that approached
our campsite. Here's a pic of her drawn by my artist buddy,
dragging her lawnchair behind her in hot pursuit... uh... in
the wrong direction... But her heart was in the right place.



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