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MuffinsMuffins may look a little different to you. She is what is known as a double merle. Muffins is 6 years old and a larger sheltie . Unscrupulous breeders sometimes produce shelties such as Muffins. Indeed she did come to sheltie rescue from a breeder. Indiana Sheltie Rescue offered to take Muffins into our group when the national sheltie rescue network was asked to help Louisville Sheltie Rescue by taking all of their shelties because the foster home was having a surgery that was to take a lengthy recovery time. Hoping that others would help our group if we were in need we extended help and took two Kentucky shelties .
It was helpful to me to have the benefit from the first foster home to know what to expect Muffins to be like and how to help her get accustomed to new surroundings. Indeed I have found it to be a character building experience for myself and you might also. Muffins is partially blind and partially deaf . At some point she had a lump in or on her left ear which was surgically removed leaving some scar tissue on her ear. Just wiping her ear with a baby wipe has kept it clean. Muffins has quite a personality and has settled in nicely at my house - her foster home. She gets on well with other dogs and enjoys the company of humans. The doctors have diagnosed that Muffins sees light and shadow. I dont know how that decision was made but I cant argue with it. Muffins clearly follows me around the house and yard. She navigates our steps easily and has no trouble finding her dinner bowl - ha ha! Muffins can hear sufficiently enough to live easily in my home too. Indeed it would not be a good idea to have her loose on her own but in a safely enclosed area she gets on just fine.
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