My dog Sofia went blind due to Retinal deterioration. I am still heartbroken over this. She is 11 and a Yorkiepom. I have another small dog Max who has treacha collapse and is 13. It is very hard to see them age and with the medical problems I can’t leave them alone for long periods of time. I have declined vaccination e with family for fear that they would not get the care they need. I am still very sad over these issues but they are my family and mean the world to me.

That’s so funny! While my pugs look quite different to me, a lot of people can’t tell them apart until they pay close attention to the differences in their features, seems how they are the same breed. So my nephew used to always ask me ‘what one’s that?” each time he came over and i’d tell him over and over. He was maybe 4-5 then, and his sister was about 2. At some point she started answering for me but no matter which one he pointed at, she would chime in ‘that’s FrankNBeans!’ like she thought they were BOTH named “frankandbeans” instead of Frank being one and Beans being the other. It was pretty cute.

Hopefully he’ll do just fine :). We are on ground level here, we don’t even have steps to come in/out of the house so that helped. If we had moved into a place with steps I probably would have gated the stairs to avoid that but otherwise, it’s probably fairly safe. At least our do is old enough to walk at a reasonable pace so even if she runs into things it’s not at a high speed or a very hard collision.