Hi Coops Mom!

My lil' Cairn Terrier, Maddie went blind about 6 yrs ago. It was
gradual, so she had a lil' bit of a chance to adjust to it.
I try not to treat her differently because she's blind, so that
she'll be happy go lucky about it. But I do have a tendency to
carry her more than I use to and spoil her a lil' more than I
should.

All in all she does very well. If I see her about to bump into
something, when she's padding along, I'll just say "Careful"
and she's learned to slow down and use her nose to kind of
feel her way around the object. But being a terrier, bumping
into stuff doesn't seem to phase her much. So she bounces off
and keeps going merrily on her way.

Her sense of hearing and smell are good, so she'll still play with
her toys, search the kitchen floor for any fallen crumb, attack
moving water when we go hiking and light into my other two
dogs if she feels they're out of line. Nothing quite as funny as
a 65lb dog doing the Collie hop step, desperately trying to get
out of the way of a 20lb blind cranky terrier, on a mission to yank
some of his hair out.

Par...