Wade called a while back and told me that Queen had been behaving poorly for about a month. He said that he finally discovered that there is something wrong with her vision. He was going to take her to a vet and have her checked out. Friday night he called again to let me know what they found. Basically she is blind in one eye and almost blind in the other. She has something called Sudden Acquired Retinal Degeneration (SARD). I had never heard of this, but when a dog gets it they go blind fast. I read that a dog can go for a walk and come back blind. They don't know what causes it and there is no cure. It sounds like his family likes Queen and Wade is going to try keeping her as a pet. He's getting a book on blind dogs and some goggles to protect her eyes. He says he may try to let her tree some pop-ups but he knows that her coonhunting days are pretty much over. Queen is a little over 6 years old.
Posted by bruceo at December 7, 2003 11:54 PM