As I have previously posted about, I’ve raised two litters of Bernedoodle puppies. In the more recent one, the Nintendogs/Batch of Beautiful Baby Bernedoodle Brawl Boys, there were 6: Ike, Ridley, Link, Yoshi, Ness, and Luigi. Little Louie, as I call him, and Ness were both very unexpected runts and born with cataracts that make them completely blind. Though they’ve had it rough, they’re incredibly sweet and loving, and like to explore and wrestle and run around, being startlingly brave. Luckily for them, a kind human took them both in so they could be together for support as they’re best friends. Also lucky, they got the intelligence of their mother Kiki and in two weeks have already memorized the layout of their new house and figured out some others too, and learned to use stairs on their own. However, they’re still easily startled, a bit anxious, trip and bump into things a whole lot, and get lost, particularly in unknown territory. It was previously thought that they’d just be blind forever, and Ness will be, but it turns out Luigi is a good candidate for cataract surgery when he’s old enough. The aforementioned human has entered him into America’s Favorite Pet in the hopes of getting the $5000 grand prize to pay for the operation. Anyone with a Facebook account (I didn’t have one before this, but I made one solely for this purpose ha.) can vote once every 24 hours; each vote helps bring Louie, now Murphy, a little bit closer to the opportunity to see, which would let him help his twin blind brother Ness, now Moose, as his seeing-eye dog.

https://americasfavpet.com/2020/murphy-9c11