Nutrition Month 2009
Posted in Health and Nutrition on 03/26/2008 05:23 am by Steven Nerenberg
why and how my GSD has become blind. I feel so sad?
i have a german shepherd dog who is 14 years old. For many months he kept bumping on walls, furniture and objects and would sometimes slip from stairs too. We thought he was doing all this out of boredom.
But when i took him to the vet, it was found out he has become BLIND!!!!! Vet said there cannot be any boredom for a dog at such age, let alone intentionally bumping on objects.
I was so shocked, i forget to ask vet how and why he became blind? He was given good nutrition always and very good care was taken too all his life, so how he lost his vision?
his time is running out and i don’t think he can make it till the end of 2009, but is there anyway his vision can be brought back now? so that he can have good final days?
Kudos for having a German Shepherd that has gotten to that age. His good nutrition and good care got him to the age of 14. A 14 yr old dog is like a 98 year old man – most old people that age can’t see very well if at all either. My mother is 68 and she has macular degeneration as well as alzheimers, so for some people they wear out faster than others. His eyes just wore out before everything else has, which actually is a good thing. Means his care and feeding has done him well – it is not your fault at all.
If that is the only issue he is having – I would not put him to sleep if you are considering that. I have friends with a 10 yr old American Eskimo that went blind at an early age 7 (with progressive retinal atrophy) and he adjusted to the layout of the house. It took him several months, but eventually he quit bumping into things, and now he knows his way around. They have left the layout of their house the same for him and they take him for nightly walks – if he is able to I would walk him so he can enjoy that if you don’t already.
Again kudos to you.
Jeatel’s poem (Nutrition Month 2009)
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