I am sure that Buddy helped save my life. I had just come out of rehab for alcohol addiction and my daughter, who lives 600 miles away, decided a dog would be good for me. She choose a Pomeranian pup from a breeder and called my wife and ask her to send a tee shirt that I had worn, and told her that this would help the pup bond with me by getting used to my scent. . I had no idea all this was going on.
About three month later, my daughter put him under her seat on a plane and flew here. I took Buddy from her arms and sat down in my chair with him and he looked straight in my eyes and winked! I couldn’t believe what was happening and no one believes this until they see it.. I have never seen a dog have as much eye contact as Buddy does with me.
As I said in my first post, he is now blind and hard of hearing but I still take him for walks and he had a good time sniffing at every tree.
And by the way, I haven’t had a drink since I got Buddy almost 15 years ago. In fact he will be 15 in seven days. My wife and I are 76 years old and Buddy means the world to us.
"Now we see as through a glass, darkly but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known." I Corinthians 13:12
that's great. i watch the dog programs on t.v. dogs are so resilient (we should all learn a thing or two from them!). it probably helps a lot that their "first" sense is smell. by constrast, humans are sight animals.
Has anyone here had a dog that went blind? I have a 15 year old Pomeranian that lost his sight about 6 mos. Ago. He woke up one morning and was running into everything so I knew something was wrong. I took him to the vet and he said he was not seeing anything at all because cataracts were so thick.
What has amazed me is how well Buddy has adjusted. No one who sees him can believe he is blind. He never runs into anything inside the house or when I go with him outside. He knows where his water bowl is but if we move it, he will go to the spot where it usually is and lower his head to drink but the bowl is not there.
I know this may be hard to believe, but Buddy always comes to me and winks (yes, winks) when he wants to go outside. Now days, he still comes to my chair, looks up to where my eyes would be and winks even if I am not in the chair. This breaks my heart but other than that, he is the same old Buddy.
"Now we see as through a glass, darkly but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known." I Corinthians 13:12
