Pele-mei: Part Two
Well, it's pretty much official: Pele is blind.
Bright sunlight in the backyard, no way that she shouldn't have been able to see us standing by the house. She was confused, obviously trying to use our voices as a location. Stumbled into a couple of objects (not hard) before I could get her to stand still so that I could lift her back up the steps to enter the house.
She was equally uncertain of the back hallway, but it seems like she knows how many steps it takes to get to the door and can tell if it is closed (most times).
Had a hard time navigating in the house to her bed (which has never moved since it arrived here) - but once there was happy to figure out how to lay down.
The unwanted side effect of the blindness is that she now does not get *any* exercise other than her walks in the AM. I talked to the hubby about her walking her in the PM as well (heat permitting): Without exercise her back legs are going to give out sooner rather than later. The extra strain of her inactivity is already showing in her stiffness.
But, she's happy: She is laying on her bed grinning at me and panting right now. So long as that doesn't change we are golden!
Bright sunlight in the backyard, no way that she shouldn't have been able to see us standing by the house. She was confused, obviously trying to use our voices as a location. Stumbled into a couple of objects (not hard) before I could get her to stand still so that I could lift her back up the steps to enter the house.
She was equally uncertain of the back hallway, but it seems like she knows how many steps it takes to get to the door and can tell if it is closed (most times).
Had a hard time navigating in the house to her bed (which has never moved since it arrived here) - but once there was happy to figure out how to lay down.
The unwanted side effect of the blindness is that she now does not get *any* exercise other than her walks in the AM. I talked to the hubby about her walking her in the PM as well (heat permitting): Without exercise her back legs are going to give out sooner rather than later. The extra strain of her inactivity is already showing in her stiffness.
But, she's happy: She is laying on her bed grinning at me and panting right now. So long as that doesn't change we are golden!