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Everyone like the picture of rolly in the snow, he loves the snow.
He went blind in a matter of hours one sunday 3 years ago, The vets first thought he had a inflamation of the optic nerve as he had no eye abnormalities, he was given an anti inflammatory injection & antibiotic injection & was reviewed three weeks later, but the injections didnt do anything. The vets then diagnosed that the optic nerves in both his eyes had stopped working but as their was no trauma or any other eye problems, said that this was the only cause. at first he was terrified, depressed & all he did was sleep, wouldnt go out for his walkies. after a month he gradually became a strong, back to his old self dog, although bumped into things didnt bother him anymore. people find it hard to believe he is blind., he is so clever, he knows every toy by name, even two toys exactly the same he knows which is which. Rolly was tested again with his eyes & still has no vision at all, but it doesnt bother him.
He has other medical issues, which we are looking into & controlling with help from a vet in inverness, who saved his life last year. I live in a very rural area in scotland, on an island so our vet has limited capabilities & diagnistic equipment & was sent to the mainland last year to the vets in inverness & i am so grateful what they did. they confirmed his blindness & other conditions we didnt know he had.
Rollys, great great grandmother lived till she was 19. His father died about 4 years ago & was 14. Rolly is the biggest yorkie we have had (he is supposed to be a miniture, but is the size of a standard yorkie) he was the only pup in the litter he was that big. |