Jackie (shiba inu) is blind now. She had hereditary glaucoma. She lost her left eye last year then her right eye last month, despite daily drops for pressure reduction. Both times, the eye went from normal to sore, to completely blind and removed in a matter of days.
Unlike the first time, she cried a lot because she couldn't see at all anymore. She knew something was really wrong. After that surgery, I spent days at home with her and it was heartbreaking. Shiba screams are knives to your eardrums.
She's five years old. I wonder if she will dream with visuals for the rest of her life. How much of a bummer is it for her to wake up without sight anymore? Won't that make dreams more real in a sense? Are dogs that self-aware and absorbed over their own troubles?
She still is a beautiful little shiba:
