11/07/2024
Murphy is a 2yr old GSP Bloodhound mix who was adopted by .roo.who when he was a few months old from us (5th picture). He was initially surrendered as the gal who rescues his mom (not knowing she was pregnant), couldn't meet his needs as he grew and they figured out he couldn't see. He was born blind as his eyes were very small and never fully developed. The decision was made to take his eyes out due to his hound nature of always having his nose to the ground and not wanting to have him on eye drops constantly to control infections. He takes life head on and makes his voice heard when he has something to say (typical hound), especially when he thinks his humans have forgotten to feed him dinner...πΎπ
Django was brought into the rescue 6 years ago (he was the 2nd dog that I took in), and knew after about a month of having him his forever home was going to have to be pretty specific to meet his high prey drive needs and exercise demands and that home never came along in the 9mnts I had him, so I decided to keep him (despite having gotten into 5 Porcupines his first hunting season with me π€).
He injured his left eye by running through a barbwire fence and lacerating his cornea. He had cataract surgery and was rearing to go by week 2 of that healing his right eye looked off and wr found out he had a porcupine quill in the back of his retina. After a long winter/spring during the peak of COVID19 traveling back and forth to Spokane and Seattle to the Opthamologists and continued infections it was decided it was best to take his right eye out. His cataract surgery did him well and lasted 4yrs. His vision decreased some over the last year due to scar tissue build up from the cataract surgery. His pressures started spiking this summer. He had glacoma surgery and laser surgery this summer as a hale marry to save his vision which last 2 months and then his pressures started spiking again and he ultimately had to have his left eye taken out 3 weeks ago.
He is adapting well and taking life in stride and doesn't seem to phased by it all considering!