Wondering if my doggy is giong blind?
Is anyone experienced with blind dogs? Our little Bichon, Tiki-bird was a rescue pup and we have had him for 18 months. At the time, Tiki was afraid of everything, but especially men. He warmed up...
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While we have experience with blindness in 2 dogs it's different because we obtained them that way, they were both rescue's and only blind in one eye. Now that brings me to our current situation, 3 years ago we rescued Sampson a Boston Terrier that is blind in one eye and was born that way. We noticed this spring that Sampson starting acting very afraid of sudden and or strange noises, ex. firecrackers, thunder, a person walking into a room suddenly that type of things. Those things never bothered him the first 2 years of having him.
We questioned maybe he was going blind in his other eye or maybe his hearing was changing. We had him examined by a vet and everything was good as far as he could tell. We didn't want to go the medication route if at all possible so we thought what the heck and purchased a Thundershirt to give it a try. All I can say is WOW, our old Sampson is back. Now he never started the barking but he became very anxious and nervous and he paced and just very nervous. In his case it made all the difference in the world but I realize it may be totally different than your situation. That may not be much help but thought I would pass it along.
We questioned maybe he was going blind in his other eye or maybe his hearing was changing. We had him examined by a vet and everything was good as far as he could tell. We didn't want to go the medication route if at all possible so we thought what the heck and purchased a Thundershirt to give it a try. All I can say is WOW, our old Sampson is back. Now he never started the barking but he became very anxious and nervous and he paced and just very nervous. In his case it made all the difference in the world but I realize it may be totally different than your situation. That may not be much help but thought I would pass it along.
