Living With Blind Dogs: A Resource Book and Training Guide for the Owners of Blind and Low-Vision Dogs, Second Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Caroline D. Levin
Publisher: Lantern Publications
Category: Book
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 16395
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 188
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0967225345
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.7089
EAN: 9780967225340
ASIN: 0967225345
Publication Date: February 2004
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Product Description
"Living With Blind Dogs," now in its second edition, is the only published resource book on this topic. It embodies helpful hints from hundreds of blind-dog owners, as well as years of ophthalmic nursing, veterinary, and dog training experiences. Both the veterinary community and dog owners alike continue to praise this text, in which Levin successfully answers the common question: "What do I do now?" This revised edition contains all the topics covered in the first edition, such as: Dealing with feelings of loss and grief, how dogs react to blindness, conditions that cause blindness and how they progress, genetics, pack issues, training concepts, new skills, helpful hints to negotiate the house, yard, and community, toys, games, and suppliers/resources. This revised edition also includes numerous new sections and chapters: Dogs both blind and deaf, dogs blind from birth, white canes and other devices, circling behaviors, changes in barking patterns, dealing with cats, giving eye drops, traveling and camping with a blind dog, adding another dog to the pack, dry eye syndrome, VKH, and new findings on PRA and SARD.
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Very insightful December 20, 2008
Susan E. Stribling (Independence, MO)
Great book. Luckily my dog was 9 years old when he developed retinal degeneration. But if you were to adopt or have a blind dog from the start, this book teaches you how to help your dog have a full life as though he could see. It also has helpful pointers and suggestions. The medical jargin is a little wordy, but it's very through about the supposed causes of why your dog is blind or going blind. Very helpful.
 living with blind dogs December 1, 2008
N. prather (raleigh, nc usa)
is a simply written and easily understood book. it offers straightforward advice on many of the obstacles faced in the day to day life of an unsighted dog and her owner. i would recommend this book as a handy reference book for those who find themselves living with a blind dog. it has made a difference in our lives for sure.
Understanding for blind dogs. October 12, 2008
Maryann Ramsey (Toledo, OH USA)
It was very enlightening. There is hope for dogs and their owners to live a good quality of life. The book was encouraging in this aspect. It was compassionately written.
A Most Helpful Assist with Coping with a Blind Dog September 15, 2008
Mary J. Hathaway (Battle Creek,Mi)
Our dog abruptly went blind on Father's Day which is not that uncommon
for our breed. We subsequently had to have his eyes removed due to irre-
versible and painful end-stage Glaucoma. We were, of course, devastated
as our dog just turned 6 last March. Our animal Opthalmologist suggested
this book as a great source for us and our acceptance of his delemma and
also some valid suggestions for helping our pet have as normal a life as
possible. These suggestions have worked well so I highly recommend this
book for others to read in similar circumstances.
Mary J. Hathaway
recovering sight August 28, 2008
The majority of us dog owners love our pets but know little about what happens--or in the present case fails to happen--behind those happy eyes. Caroline Levin's lovingly written guide to living well with and for man's best friend when he can't see is a tremendous resource for such human pack leaders, brimming over as we are with good intentions but a little slim on the science side.
It's telling that so many reviews of Levin's work begin by telling the story of a beloved dog's loss of vision. Few of us come to Levin's instruction out of theoretical knowledge. Rather we desperately need to know what to do.
This reviewer and his family have not seen a dog lose his vision. Rather, we recently adopted an abandoned Rhodesian Ridgeback who is already blind. Sammy joins a home with a seeing Ridgeback who has done extraordinarily well in adjusting to life with the bumptious fellow.
Levin's book helps me understand our new dog's psyche, how to ameliorate his fears, and why he loves our voices and cowers when strangers speak the same words.
Sixteen chapters begin with the basics of how people and dogs grieve, how the canine eye is designed to work, and the reasons why it stops doing so. From there the author expertly leads us through behavior change and how to adjust our lives to that our sight-impaired pets can get on with theirs.
The book is peppered with photos of blind dogs and their owners and affectionate reassurances that living with a blind dog can be as joyful as tragic and often more so.
The book has large print--one wonders whether a nurse of ophthalmology presses her editors for this concession--and wide margins. As such, it reads quickly. In this reviewer's case, it will occupy an easily accessible place on a shelf for quick reference as we help our Sammy rediscover the playful, confident sub-alpha male that bounds playfully in his dreams and behind his happy smile.
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