New Goldendoodle

A few months ago we put in new hardwood flooring and already we are accumulating a lot of dog scratches. You can only put so many rugs down before you have to look at other solutions. Samantha has been trying to keep the dog’s claws trimmed up but that doesn’t seem to help much.

I did some online searching and found a product called ’soft claws’. They’re plastic sleeves that you glue over the dog’s claws and they’re supposed to last about a month. We received ours in the mail today and put them on the dog’s claws. Roxie didn’t like it much but she’s a nervous nelly anyway!

We’ll see how it goes. We only did the front and we’ll see, I’m thinking we should probably just go ahead and do the rear paws as well.

It’s been a while since we’ve updated, and generally nothing new is going on except his hair is getting longer.

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Well I know it’s been a while since my last post, so here goes.

As I last posted, we were very concerned about potters vision. Our vet recommnded up going to an eye specialist for dogs. We did so, and after some testing the opthalmologist said that she didn’t believe Potter was in danger of going blind and that anything that the vet noticed was just normal. Potter continued to stare at things, then Samantha figured he had an ear infection. His ears smelled kinda raunchy.

After treating for an ear infection, he has since been back to his normal self – always into everything and constantly wanted to be petted.

Now that it’s April, we realized that Potter is now 3 1/2 years old. Where is the time going? We adore him, but he can often get on our nerves by slipping out the front door before it’s closed. We then have to chase him around the neighborhood to get him back.

We’re gearing up for a summer of camping, Potter and Roxie absolutely love to camp and we hope to have many more stories, pictures and videos throughout the summer.

Several months ago, we took Potter and Roxie to the vet for routine shots and a look over. The vet looked in Potter’s eyes, then looked again. He asked me how old he was, I told him he was only two years old. He looked again.

He informed me that he was quite certain that Potter was suffering from a condition known as Progressive Retina Atrophy and he would likely be completely blind by the age of 8. We were deeply saddened by this, especially since there is no cure for it.

About two months later, we noticed that he began staring at things. Wierd. He would stare at the vacuum cleaner, the remote control, or other toys that might be scattered about. He would stare for a long time, maybe even 45 minutes. We decided to take him back to the vet for another look.

When we got to the vet, he looked at his eyes again and concluded that we need to send him to a local veterinary anthropologist for diagnosis. We went, and were pleased to learn that Potter did not suffer from PRA like our regular vet thought. Only time will tell for sure, but for now we are delighted. His staring at objects is likely a behavioral issue, and we have been working to break his attention when he starts staring. I can tell some difference.