She was mostly deaf and blind her last few years, but she managed perfectly fine on her own unless we moved stuff around. She could still see shapes, and when I turned to look at her she would still wag her tail, so not fully blind.

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    This was my first dog. My parents never wanted pets when I grew up, my mother was also allergic. The best we could do was birds so we had them. My wife always had a dog growing up, and I wasn’t apposed to it. So once we were married and moved to a more permanent residence, we started looking. All rescue places and let me have bigger say in the decision since it was my first. We found her at only 6 months picked up off the streets of TN, and relocated to a shelter by us. She was still a puppy, and we had to do all the training. She was really smart and never gave us any of the problems I expected to find that dogs do.

    I asked my wife if it was just me or if she felt special? She agreed that she was the friendliest and kindest dog she has ever had, so I knew i wasn’t crazy. My wife would kill me if we didn’t get another dog, but I feel spoiled, and I’m not sure how I could move on at this time. Also due to financial reasons, we are going to wait a bit until we can spoil our next one. Should be about a year until we can make it work which I think is well needed anyway. We had no kids when we got her, so it was easy to spend the time with a puppy, but now I think it would be a bit harder to dedicate that time. The year should let us prepare.

    Your other dog looks great as well! Good luck with everything.

    Here was ours, Domino.