Alayne and I had just finished feeding the dogs yesterday evening when I looked over in the living room and saw this scene — that’s blind Callie on the left, sharing the cot with her friend blind Kenai.
You’ll notice the eyes look very different. Callie is blind from progressive retinal atrophy, so her pupils are completely dilated to let as much light in as possible. The glow you’re seeing is from the flash bouncing off the retina in the back of the eye. (Regular blog readers will remember seeing Callie’s "glow" from earlier photos.) Kenai, on the other hand, is blind from cataracts, which is why you’re seeing the light reflect off the white lens in each eye.
This scene reminded me that Callie has a thing for big dogs … she loves curling up with them, sleeping next to them on cots, or just hanging out next to them. Now, we have lots of smaller dogs here, like Widget and Goldie and the rest of the Dachshund brigade, but Callie seems to prefer the big dogs like Kenai (who tips the scales at 100 pounds). We’ll often find Callie also snuggled up next to blind Helen, our 105-lb Rottie. She also loves grooming them, as I showed in a post from last November.
I know "big" is relative when you’re a Dachshund, but this plump little girl definitely likes her big friends.
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