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Bookmark“Living With Blind Dogs,” now in its second edition, is the only published resource book on this topic. It embodies helpful hints from hundreds of blind-dog owners, as well as years of ophthalmic nursing, veterinary, and dog training experiences. Both the veterinary community and dog owners alike continue to praise this text, in which Levin successfully answers the common question : “What do I do now?”
This revised edition contains all the topics covered in the first edition, such as : Dealing with feelings of loss and grief, how dogs react to blindness, conditions that cause blindness and how they progress, genetics, pack issues, training concepts, new skills, helpful hints to negotiate the house, yard, and community, toys, games, and suppliers/resources.
This revised edition also includes numerous new sections and chapters : Dogs both blind and deaf, dogs blind from birth, white canes and other devices, circling behaviors, changes in barking patterns, dealing with cats, giving eye drops, traveling and camping with a blind dog, adding another dog to the pack, dry eye syndrome, VKH, and new findings on PRA and SARD.
There is not alot of information on the subject of living with blind dogs. This gives some practical how to’s. Owner’s of blind dogs share their real life experiences.
My 9 year old pug went blind in 5 days and diagnosed with SARDS. This book was helpful because the vet didn’t seem to have any advice on how to train the dog and make our lives as normal as possible. I am now looking for a holistic vet that can treat the issues that caused SARDS.
This book was so helpfull that it has given me the knowledge to help me and my dog deal with his blindness and taught me how to teach him to cope with himself.We learned sound laugauge and other techinec’s.I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has a pet that has blindness.In the book there is websites that they give you for supplies that you can purchase to help make your pet more comfortable in getting around and about for just every day living and just lots of inspirational pages on how to live with blind dogs or any pet for that matter.
I bought this book as a gift for my sister who just acquired a rescue blind puppy.I’m a positive dog trainer and was disgusted that a prong collar could be suggested for any dog, let alone a traumatised blind dog! These are illegal in Australia. I couldn’t believe my eyes and had to re-read it, as I thought I must have read it wrong. And to say that this method is not as harsh as some others, the mind boggles to think what these alternatives are! To suggest a water spray for blind and deaf dogs is just disgusting. These are both cruel methods which are just so unnesessary, when the desired behaviors could be achieved by gentle kind methods.How very disapointing.
On October 14th I took my beloved 14-year-old Boston Terrier to the eye speciaist because he had started bumping into walls. He’d had cataract surgery on one eye the year before and the second eye had ruptured a month before from cysts. They held no hope for better sight and I had heard of this book, so that evening I found it on the net thru Amazon and ordered it with express delivery. It came Saturday morning, but on Friday I had to put my angel down because in his blindness, he had miscalculated a jump,hurt his back, and was suffering. But when the book came, I accepted it and started reading it. I found a number of suggestions I would never have thought of. I will be getting another dog after the New Year, and who knows what the future will bring? I think this book is a good investment for any dog owner.