Was randomly looking through pictures tonight, and somehow came across this one.
This is Beckett, June 2008, on the ferry fresh from the TG bus run. He was about 2 1/2 - 3, although looked like a young pup! (Still does sometimes!) I still remember rushing over to Vancouver for our new boy, and meeting Dave who scratched his head at our sheer delusioned excitement. "We coulda got him to the island for ya..."
Yeah right! We were too darn excited to wait that long! Although Beckett had a nice escape attempt back to the other dogs, and Dave warned us many times how 'wild' this one was, he did indeed come home with us. Although we weren't without trial and tribulation, he was -and still is- the perfect dog for us.
A much more recent shot of Beckett. The dog who has my heart. :)
2 comments:
was Becket blind when you adopted him?
wendy
We're not 100% sure, but its most likely his left eye (the one with the blue cataract) had no vision it in when he came to us. He got along so well, we never thought anything about the little signs -walking onto the odd thing on the left, not having any real depth perception, etc- it wasn't until about 6 months later when a random CRD person was giving him cookies and noticed he wouldn't follow a hand to the left. ---He wasn't food motivated when we got him, so we didn't train him with food, so didn't see it. We took him to the vet shortly afterwards and the vet is pretty sure its genetic, as both eyes aren't good. The left is gone completely now, and has a cataract over top (no point getting rid of it, it gives him no pain, and removing it, he'd still be blind...) the right eye can see some, but not much. When there's other dogs around, you can hardly tell he's vision impaired. By himself, and if you change the furniture around, you suddenly understand. Moving with him the first time was the most stressful thing! And gosh forbid we want to change up the furniture!
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