Tips for Living with a Blind Dog

Get some useful tips for living and bringing home a blind dog.

Coping with blind canines can be a demanding yet fulfilling experience. Try these tricks for bringing a blind dog home, helping him find his way about, socializing the canine and going outside the house.

 1. Make an effort not to move any furniture around after your dog has grown knowledgeable to the layout of your house and always keep floors clear.
 2. You might wish to cushion sharpened edges on pieces of furniture and cupboards.
 3. Make use of textured carpets to assist your canine identify certain places of the house.
 4. Scents are also a wonderful method to mark 'zones' in your household, like the bottom level or top of stairways or door openings. Utilise the same smell for all safe places and something different for unsafe spots.
 5. Avoid picking up a blind canine to bring him to his food or a toy of his; this may be baffling and he needs to understand on his own.
 6. Set bells on other house animals to alert your blind doggie of their presence.
 7. Speak to your blind dog often to comfort and guide him with positive support. Set up your own words instructions and be consistent with them.
 8. Be very careful not to startle the dog when you come up on him and also train family and friends and little youngsters to be careful. A doggie may bite at someone which startles him from behind or while he sleeps. New
 9. persons should allow the puppy to smell their hand prior to petting him.
 10. Work with a harness whenever outside the house with your doggy, particularly whenever heading to new places.
 11. Think about a bandana or marker to place on your dog that pronounces 'I'm blind' to notify others of your pet's situation.

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