2007-07-17 07:29:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Dogs
Stay away from it.
2007-07-17 07:32:06 · answer #1 · answered by ldf 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, sounds like he has cataracts, or is going blind. The vet can tell you which, and what can be done for it, if anything. Cataracts can be removed. Age-related blindness probably can't be fixed. Your grandma should refrain from rearranging the furniture or leaving things lying around on the floor for the dog to run into or trip over.
Like a person, a blind dog can navigate very well around it's own home. It knows where everything is located and has a mental map of the area. It will be helpless in strange surroundings, though. If it is a smallish dog, it will appreciate being carried in crowded or unfamiliar places.
At home, to prevent mishaps, a baby gate at the top of the stairs is a wise idea. Other than that, just keep the porcelain knick-knacks and lamps off the little tables he's apt to run into! Grandma probably doesn't want that porcelain ballerina or Victorian lady to end up looking like the victim of a tragic farming accident! LOL!
If the vet says it's just old age and nothing can be done for it, as long as the dog is otherwise reasonably healthy, and not in any pain, just try to dog-accident proof the house, and accomodate him as much as possible. Grandma is probably very attached to her old friend, and would take offense at the suggestion to put him down. If he's not suffering, you don't need to. He can adapt. You just have to be a little more careful, and remember he can't see. Speak to him before touching him, his hearing may not be as keen as it used to be, either. If you startle him, he may snap. Lots of people live with blind dogs, it isn't that difficult once you understand what you should and shouldn't do. The vet can probably recommend books or other resources. Good luck!
2007-07-17 07:54:24 · answer #2 · answered by baymast13 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The dog must be going blind and needs to see the vet for diagnosis. Then as someone else has said if the blindness isn't treatable the dog will adjust. I have a blind cat and she gets along just fine, no longer bumps into things, knows where her food water and litter are, etc.
As a matter of fact I keep her in one section of the house so that the dogs don't bother her and tried to change her area. I spent all morning building a short wall figuring that since she was blind she wouldn't know it wasn't a full wall and would be contained by it. No such luck. As soon as I finished putting her in the new area she walked right up to the wall, felt up it with her paws and jumped right over it. She may be blind but she ain't stupid!
So they adjust very well. Dogs rely more of smell and hearing than sight anyway.
2007-07-17 07:40:46 · answer #3 · answered by Hotsauce 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nah, he's effective. I asked approximately this awhile in the past.. My dogs does an analogous factor and extra than a number of human beings stated theirs did an analogous factor. For one factor you stated which you stopped without warning to %. up a toy whilst he hit you. properly he wasn't anticipating you to resign... it is all. we've all accomplished that when somebody walking in front individuals stops devoid individuals understanding they are going to. the different issues, i think of, is that the canines merely get so centred on enjoying.. on chasing squirrels or birds or their toys that they overlook to resign... lol... it is all... My dogs does it and a team of folk, as quickly as I asked, informed me that their canines have been doing an analogous factor as quickly as in awhile so i does no longer problem approximately it. It had no longer something to do with their eyesight. until your dogs is walking into partitions all day during the day, i does no longer problem approximately it and this in basic terms happens whilst he's so caught up throughout the time of play time, then this is in basic terms a classic factor.... a minimum of for some canines. My dogs will become the biggest goof and best klutz each so often whilst he's enjoying and could wreck face first into the fence yet he does not even are attentive to it and could merely roll over and shop going after his toy!!
2016-10-04 00:44:15 · answer #4 · answered by raffone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm being serious, don't move stuff around the house and he/she will learn where things are and not walk into them anymore. If her dog hasn't been to a vet for this blindness, I'd get to one. It could be caused by all kinds of conditions that can be treated.
2007-07-17 07:33:22 · answer #5 · answered by gee 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Runs into things? What sort of things?
Take it to the vet, sounds like it's having trouble seeing.
2007-07-17 07:33:08 · answer #6 · answered by Seattle_Slacker 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You take it to the vet, chances are that it has cataracts and/or it is going blind....If it is getting old...
LMAO at mr taco, sorry that is really funny!
2007-07-17 07:32:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I run screaming from my house... my grandma and her dog have been dead for over a decade!
2007-07-17 07:32:09 · answer #8 · answered by Mr. Taco 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Tell it to stop or put it in a place where it can't knock things over
2007-07-17 07:33:20 · answer #9 · answered by Patricia C 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
poor thing prolly is old and has catyeraches on his eyes, is that how you spell that, any way, take it to the vet and get his eyes checked for her
2007-07-17 07:32:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
if its an old dog- check her eyesight
2007-07-17 07:39:40 · answer #11 · answered by dansnan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋