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Spankie the Dog and Frecklee the cat are both ~14 years old. Frecklee can't hardly hear (but he sure heard Brian's Goliath video). And Spankie can no longer see. I wonder why they don't work together that way, but they don't. The deaf leading the blind.
It's a part of life, I guess, you get old and fall apart. But it happens to pets seven times as fast on the calendar as it does to us.
Spankie just can't see. If you move a chair or something in the house, he'll run into it. He's working from memory, where everything is. It's hard to watch. He loses track of us in the room. If we move around he'll come sniffing chairs, trying to figure out where Muma and Dudy are...like a little kid, he has to know at every moment. And his sniffer's not working nearly as well as it used to, either. These days he can still hear a pin drop, but he sure won't be able to find it.
When I was a kid, my parents had a dog put to sleep because it went blind. I guess they just didn't want to put up with it.
Spankie's with us until the natural end. It's just hard to watch, although he's still romping and happy. Happy as long as he knows where we are in the room. Poor little feller - "Where's Muma?"
It's a part of life, I guess, you get old and fall apart. But it happens to pets seven times as fast on the calendar as it does to us.
Spankie just can't see. If you move a chair or something in the house, he'll run into it. He's working from memory, where everything is. It's hard to watch. He loses track of us in the room. If we move around he'll come sniffing chairs, trying to figure out where Muma and Dudy are...like a little kid, he has to know at every moment. And his sniffer's not working nearly as well as it used to, either. These days he can still hear a pin drop, but he sure won't be able to find it.
When I was a kid, my parents had a dog put to sleep because it went blind. I guess they just didn't want to put up with it.
Spankie's with us until the natural end. It's just hard to watch, although he's still romping and happy. Happy as long as he knows where we are in the room. Poor little feller - "Where's Muma?"
, 2013 LH, 2014 LH
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