This handsome little Beagle arrived on Monday from Atlanta. Charlie had been picked up as a stray by a small shelter in Cherokee County, Georgia. No one claimed him. A rescue group we have worked with a lot before, Atlanta Beagle Rescue, contacted us when they learned about the blind Beagle from the shelter. We agreed to take him, and we flew him on Delta from Atlanta to Salt Lake City and on to Missoula. Alayne picked him up at the airport on Monday afternoon.
He looks quite a bit like Willie, another blind Beagle we had taken from the same rescue group a couple of years ago (since happily adopted out.) He has very distinct cataracts in both eyes, but at this point we don't know if that is the primary cause of his blindness or whether the cataracts are secondary to something else. Charlie is on the small side, and still very skinny — his ribs stick out, so he definitely needs to gain a lot of weight. He's great with the other dogs and seems to get along just fine with everyone.
After trying to climb up onto the kitchen counter in search of food yesterday, he's learned that this is not acceptable dining behavior. (Beagle + food = trouble.)
When he first came into the house Monday evening, we had CNN on the TV … Charlie heard the voices and zoomed over to greet the people he was sure were right there in the living room! He circled and circled the TV trying to find them, jumping up on the cabinet and poking around behind the set looking for them. I finally had to hit the mute button to convince him no one was there. That's the first time we've seen that kind of response!
Blind Briggs (also from Georgia) wobbled out to greet the new arrival, sniffed him a few times, and said to no one in particular, "Hey, it's my second cousin, Charlie from Cherokee County. Haven't seen him in years. Still can't see him, come to think of it." He paused. "Good joke, huh?" [Oh, brother.]
Fortunately, Charlie is a very mellow, laid-back Beagle who loves to sleep all day long. After wandering through the house to get his bearings Monday evening, he ambled back to the living room and found his preferred spot — the round bumper bed on a cot:
He seems to prefer using the bed without the pillow in the bottom, which is why it's tossed out over the edge. I took the previous photo yesterday afternoon; here's a photo I took while I was writing this blog post this afternoon:
Charlie is one very contented Beagle!
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