Update
“Tucker received his special Muffins Halo today. He took right to it. In fact, I’m pretty sure he is feeling extra cool strutting around. Thank you so much second chance for blind dogs and Muffins Halo for helping to make this possible. He is now living a bump free life. ”
Alyesa
Backstory
“Hi, my name is Alyesa. Our family has been fostering both dogs and cats for just about a year now. We have fostered and adopted out 5 kittens, and we now have our 5th foster dog. Our current foster is much different then those in the past. For one, he’s a puppy. With 2 young kids in the house and 2 large dogs, and 2 lizards we always knew a puppy would just be too much work to have in our busy house, but that changed quickly upon meeting Tucker.
I got a call from Tamara who… runs the fostering at the rescue (Animal Rescue Recon) that she was going to the shelter to pull some dogs. I was suppose to go with her but wasn’t able to. She sent me pictures of 3 dogs, a 5 week old Pom/chi, a large adult cattle dog mix, and a 5 month old Shih Tuz mix that was blind. I immediately took to the cattle dog. She encouraged me to come meet her as she was a little hyper.
The following day I drove there to meet the cattle dog, but when Tamara and I walked in the door a worker in the shelter was holding a small puppy wrapped in a blanket and held over her shoulder like a baby. They handed him to me and he just cuddle right in and clung to me. They then told me he was the blind puppy, who at the time had no name. At that moment I knew I couldn’t hand him back. If I didn’t take him, who would? And knowing the shelters kill rate I knew he wouldn’t make it out alive.
We’ve gave him the name Tucker. He lights up our world. It took him awhile to find his inner puppy, but boy when it started to show through it just put a smile on my face. He is a bouncing, playful, adorable little guy, and very smart.
Now that he has acquired some speed he tends to run straight into walls, doors, toys. He shakes it off well but I think a Muffin’s Halo would be a wonderful tool to help Tucker safely play and find his way around.
I first heard of the Muffin’s Halos through another local rescue, Umbrella of Hope. All the blind dogs that they take on have a Halo.
Thank you for reading Tucker’s story. He is a very special guy to us, and we cannot wait for him to find his forever home. He has taught us that being blind isn’t much of a disability at all. Hoping to open the eyes to many others that dogs with disabilities are just as adoptable as any other dog.”
