Rolling Dog Farm Blog

One of the things we love seeing are two animals with totally different disabilities playing and roughhousing with each other as equals.  It just shows us how their innate desire to be happy and enjoy life triumphs over their handicaps.  Because of the mix of disabilities and sizes, we never quite know who's going to win any given event.  Is the 70-lb blind Lab going to prevail over the 50-lb wobbly Collie who can see? 

For example, a lunchtime ritual at the moment is blind Evelyn and wobbly Soba playing tug-of-war over a toy.  When we let them out of the cottages at lunch, Alayne often brings a long fleece "rope" with her … and that's enough to set them off.

In the photo at top, Evelyn has just managed to snatch it away from Soba.

This was the look Soba gave me a second later:

A few minutes earlier, the scene had looked like this:

And on occasion — and only in the interest of fair play — the referee needs to step in, reset the clock and start things going again:

You can tell Evelyn does not want to let go of that rope!