Need a little advice on one of my fur kids
I need a little advice from all my friends in the Pet Stop. I have an approximately 4 - 5 y/o Boston Terrier that has been blind in one eye since birth. A little brief history, he was rescued from a p...
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I would give the Thundershirt a try. If you buy them and it doesn't give you any results you can return them, and get a refund. I would also keep some Rescue Remedy in the drinking water all the time.
I've had good luck with both the thundershirts and the rescue remedy.
If a thunderstorm hits, you can put a few drops directly in the mouth, or on the paw pads. You want the rescue remedy absorbed for full effect. Never put it on food.
Puppy mill dogs come with baggage and some of them adjust to a point, but there is always that boogey man, living in the back of their mind.
You want to reassure the dog that everything is okay, but in the same sense, you don't want to over do the coddling/attention. If you give them too much, it just reinforces their fears. Try to act non-chalant and find an activity that will draw their attention away from the storm....
I don't know what part of the country your dog came from, but puppy mills are pretty much the same nightmare everywhere - just the address changes. Many of them are kept in dark barns, with little to no temperature control, stacked in cages without trays underneath.
Several years ago, I got some mill dogs in rescue. The one was doing good in her home for months on end. One night the family's 20 yr old son came in around 1 am. She heard him coming up the steps and went berserk, screaming and running and hiding.
Mill dogs can come a very long way given patience, love, and time. However, there may always be something that triggers a memory and sets them off.
Good luck with him, I hope things work out so he can have some peace.
Edit: Do you know why he was blind in the one eye from birth? Was it something genetic or an injury - like from a loose wire on a cage or something? I was just wondering if his vision is declining in the good eye, and that might add to some of his anxiety if he can't see as well as he did. Just a thought...
I've had good luck with both the thundershirts and the rescue remedy.
If a thunderstorm hits, you can put a few drops directly in the mouth, or on the paw pads. You want the rescue remedy absorbed for full effect. Never put it on food.
Puppy mill dogs come with baggage and some of them adjust to a point, but there is always that boogey man, living in the back of their mind.
You want to reassure the dog that everything is okay, but in the same sense, you don't want to over do the coddling/attention. If you give them too much, it just reinforces their fears. Try to act non-chalant and find an activity that will draw their attention away from the storm....
I don't know what part of the country your dog came from, but puppy mills are pretty much the same nightmare everywhere - just the address changes. Many of them are kept in dark barns, with little to no temperature control, stacked in cages without trays underneath.
Several years ago, I got some mill dogs in rescue. The one was doing good in her home for months on end. One night the family's 20 yr old son came in around 1 am. She heard him coming up the steps and went berserk, screaming and running and hiding.
Mill dogs can come a very long way given patience, love, and time. However, there may always be something that triggers a memory and sets them off.
Good luck with him, I hope things work out so he can have some peace.
Edit: Do you know why he was blind in the one eye from birth? Was it something genetic or an injury - like from a loose wire on a cage or something? I was just wondering if his vision is declining in the good eye, and that might add to some of his anxiety if he can't see as well as he did. Just a thought...
