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A tribute to Iowna
A local kittah delivers a letter to Prince to read.
Tears flow as he reads it to all: Smile with me as you read of her life, for that is more important than her end. Iowna was born Iowna Link to a very prestigeous line of beagles and show winners. She was no backyard breeder product but from a line of show winners. She'd have been on the ring to show best of breed except she was slightly smaller than classic so was instead tested for agility and came up in spades as good at it, making a lot of money for her first owner who loved her and let her just 'be a dog with a mission'. She lived a golden puppyhood and young adulthood. Spaying ws delayed as she had high potential to breed show winners. Then adversity hit. She developed Glaucoma at age 9. The first owner tried to deal with it but could not. She lost the sight in her left eye fairly fast then the right eye set in. He fond her a safe spot with a no kill facility that had the finances to treat her and they did. During that time, one eye had to be removed and the blind one was treated with ablation (Gentimycin treatments). Placing a 1 eyed blind dog isnt easy but she was in a good rescue and if there was a problem, it was they had to block the cat tree because they were afraid she'd fall out when she climbed it to snooze with the resident cat. Yes, she was a climber, agility dog champ, and she loved cats who loved her back. Enter Iowna age just shy of 11 to our home. Her birth records show she was born 2 July 2002 and would have turned 17 this year. It was almost like having a curious toddler who wants to climb everything! Endless amusement as we'd find we had to bolt bookshelves to walls because she'd climb them. She'd knock the books out to get higher so we tried bungee cords and dang if we didnt find her 5ft up then! We set up a camera and caught her. She was using them to climb! Ever found your dog IN the Xmas tree several feet up? LOL, the fix is cup hooks and 100lb test fishing line. We have wood beams up there so we'd tie the tree up at the top to the beams. We also had our local Xmas tree guy special cut the bottom branches so they were well above her eye level. We learned that the dog house has to be 18 inches from the fence because otherwise, she used the fence to the dog house beams to climb it and lay on the warm top (Yup! Snoopy!) She also taught our other dog (sighted, passed 2 months ago) to climb the woodpile as it's nicely sun-warm up there. Great, now I had 2 dogs 4ft up on a wood pile! Iowna was also a fantastic ambassador for blind dogs locally. I'd walk her around and the kids would argue who got to walk her a bit next (we used a rotation) and they learned about blind dogs. Sadly many people assume a blind dog should be put down but around my streets, they learned better from her. They called her the 'Snifflilator' and learned that is how blind dogs 'see the world'. Iowna, ya done good girl. Play now at the rainbow bridge and I'll be there eventually when my time is done. |
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