She was mostly deaf and blind her last few years, but she managed perfectly fine on her own unless we moved stuff around. She could still see shapes, and when I turned to look at her she would still wag her tail, so not fully blind.
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We knew it was coming, we were counting our blessed extra days, so made it a little easier. My condolences for your loss as well, maybe another pupper in the future for you?
We knew we would get another dog or two, it wasn’t fair to get another with such an old girl. So we’ve had an energetic puppy who turned one back in April. So the house is actually rowdier!
He’s 3x the size of Piper, little larger than anticipated haha. Name is Titan.
He isn’t much of a snuggler like my old girl, that’s what I miss the most, the weight on my legs at night, that I don’t think will ever pass.
This was my first dog. My parents never wanted pets when I grew up, my mother was also allergic. The best we could do was birds so we had them. My wife always had a dog growing up, and I wasn't apposed to it. So once we were married and moved to a more permanent residence, we started looking. All rescue places and let me have bigger say in the decision since it was my first. We found her at only 6 months picked up off the streets of TN, and relocated to a shelter by us. She was still a puppy, and we had to do all the training. She was really smart and never gave us any of the problems I expected to find that dogs do.
I asked my wife if it was just me or if she felt special? She agreed that she was the friendliest and kindest dog she has ever had, so I knew i wasn't crazy. My wife would kill me if we didn't get another dog, but I feel spoiled, and I'm not sure how I could move on at this time. Also due to financial reasons, we are going to wait a bit until we can spoil our next one. Should be about a year until we can make it work which I think is well needed anyway. We had no kids when we got her, so it was easy to spend the time with a puppy, but now I think it would be a bit harder to dedicate that time. The year should let us prepare.
Your other dog looks great as well! Good luck with everything.
Here was ours, Domino.