She sleeps deeply, and doesn’t react badly when she is woken (I have read that some deaf dogs can be frightened if they get woken suddenly). She has enough vision to get on perfectly in the house, although she does seem to have problems in the dark and bright sunlight. She had to get very close to Ian before she recognized him when he was weeding yesterday – in the bright sunshine. She was very apprehensive of a plant in the back garden too, obviously not being able to distinguish whether it was a green monster or something less scary. I suppose we have to remember that we are comparing her with our pets with absolutely no vision, so to us Queenie seems pretty competent, as we’re quite used to animals ricocheting around the house. However I do remember in one of the videos we watched before we got her, of her and one of her siblings, he was running round playing with another dog and Queenie was obviously unable to join in.
She was getting lost in the night and barking, but she is doing that less now, I think as she is finding her way around. That is something Wilbs used to do, particularly if he was asleep when we went to bed and he woke up and found we had all gone.
We will never be able to take her off a lead when she is out, so I will look for a super-strong retractable lead so she can wander away but still be safe – we’ll want it to be strong for our own piece of mind. I’ve only ever had one before and it snapped almost straight away, which put me off slightly….