Tips/ideas for helping a blind dog

[Freedom]

What Karen said, plus, you said, "them," so you have more than one dog -- he will quickly learn to follow the lead of the other dog(s).

Or he will be stubborn and keep bumping his nose, lol.

[Asiel]

Dogs adapt so well if they go blind as long as you leave everything the way it was when they could see. My cousin had a blind Bichon that lived happily for 4 yrs after she went blind. The family just made sure they didn't move stuff around and they did talk to her so she would follow their voices. I had no idea she was blind until my cousin told me, she was going around the house as usual, didn't act different at all.

[Freedom]

If you haven't already used Google, there are some tips on this site:
http://www.blinddogs.net/blind_dog_tips.html

I didn't try, but you could search for a blind dog forum, to see what other owners have devised.

[lolli94]

Thank you all! Yes I found the blinddogs.net website...they have a lot of awesome tips on there. I tried putting a Christmas jingle bell collar on Lolli to help him locate her better, but they were both having fun trying to get it off of her, so I took it off again. It made me want to cry last night when he banged his head on my car...hard. A few of my friends were at my house and we were just hanging out it our driveway and talking, and Buddy was confused because of the extra vehicles. He was trying to go back to his water bowl to use it as a 'home base', but I guess he forgot where I park my car. I've figured out he has no night vision left, but I'm pretty sure he still has some daytime vision. That is usual with PRA, but it won't last long. He'll lose his daytime vision completely soon. Again, thank you all for your advice, and if you have any other ideas let me know