Sun is Setting

The sun is going down, and I am doing some last minute sniffing around before I go in for my dinner!

On the Move!

Now that I am feeling so good, I am on the move!  I love being outside now!  Look at me explore my foster home yard!  I am confident as I walk around - and who would even know I am a dog that does not hear or see?

I Look Great!

Finally, the dreaded cone is off and my wounds are almost healed.  I think I look pretty cute, and I feel so good now that my eyes are gone!  My hair will keep growing in and no one will really notice whether or not I have eyes anyway!

Napping

I am recovering well from the removal of my left eye, which happened a week ago today.  Next week I get the cone off!  Right now, the places where my eyes were are still a bit crusty but soon they will completely heal and my hair will grow and I am going to be more adorable than ever! Stay tuned for pictures!!

Here I am, relaxing with two of my friends.  In the top picture, I am taking a nap with my friend, Marina. In the bottom picture, I am resting with my friend, Grace.

Here at my foster home, there are four dogs (including me)(and including Grace and Marina) who can't see and who also can't hear much either.  Some people think that it would be too hard to have a dog like me but they don't understand how well blind and deaf dogs can do!  I am learning my way around my foster home now that both of my eyes are gone, and I sometimes gently bump into a wall or chair, but I can get to the dog beds and to the water bowl, and also to the door.  And I have just started to like to strut around outside a little bit when on my leash.  I can definitely smell when it is time to eat - my nose works just fine, and the sense of smell is the most important sense for a dog to have!  I am learning to like back rubs and sometimes will let my belly be rubbed too.  My foster mom thinks that no one paid much attention to me for most of my life, so I am just getting used to having attention from people.  Of course I can't tell her about what happened in my past, in Florida, before I came to my BDRA foster home but, if I could, I would tell her that my life is 100% better now than ever before, and I am just waiting for the right person, a very special person, to see that I am a little dog worthy of some great big love and a wonderful forever home.

And, til that right person comes along, I will be hanging out here at my foster home!

I am a Silly Sleeper!

   Here I am, part-way off of the bed!  This was after I had my right eye taken out 

but still had my painful left eye.

And here I am again, with my rear hanging off of the bed!  :)

And here I am, after my eye surgery (still with the cone), sleeping with almost my whole body off of the bed!  I am sound asleep!  And I am a silly sleeper!

My foster mom comes by sometimes and repositions me in the bed
when she sees me like this.

And sometimes I do sleep completely in a bed! If I feel like it!  :)

I am doing really well since my second (and last) eye was taken out.  I feel better and have more spring in my step.

I sure hope someone out there is thinking about adopting me!  What a great little dog I am!  I don't ask for much - just a nice bed (or floor!), good food, and lots of love.

Hey! I am Olive!

Welcome to my blog!  Here I am (above), in the shelter in Florida, before I was rescued by the Blind Dog Rescue Alliance.  And I was sick!  No one had taken care of me for a long, long time. I had to be separated from all the other dogs because I did not feel well. But, with medicine and time, I got better, and then traveled to Virginia to my foster home. I am so happy here!  My foster parents take such good care of me.  I get good food, a soft bed, and lots of love.

But I have spent a lot of time in a hood, as you can see above.  First I had my right eye out and today I had my left eye out!  I wore the hood for two weeks after the right eye was taken out, and now I have to wear it for two more weeks until the wound where my left eye was heals! But I am a good sport about the hood.  And I am so, so glad my eyes are gone!  They were not healthy, and they hurt me, and I had to have a lot of drops. 

I just hope that someone out there will want to adopt me. I hope that someone out there will realize that I am still a great little dog even though I don't have any eyes!  In fact, I am better than ever now that my unhealthy eyes are gone!  

This picture of me above shows me and one of the five dogs who live at my foster home.  It is Marina, and she is 15 years old, and she is a blind dog too!  I don't mind sharing a bed with Marina or any of the dogs who live here!  I get along just fine with dogs - and cats too!

Thanks for reading my blog, and visit again soon, as I will be writing more!

And think about adopting me!  Please!