Responsibilities

We rescued Brenden a year ago, he is 11 yrs old and blind, takes 3 pills for congestive heart failure. Unfortnunately it makes him drink more, which means he has to pee more. He will let you know, he cries, pretty much every 4 hours to go outside. When taking him out, please put his reflective harness on, especially at night. You have to carry him out and stand outside and watch him, for some reason, he always heads toward the road. If you feel more comfortable, you can put him on the leash and take him out. He can do the steps in front of the house, but he rarely goes to the correct side to go in the door. Always heads toward the corner, or the opposite side with the potential of falling off the stoop. His typical day is up at 5:30 and out, comes in, gets his medication. He gets fed (he's really picky, so I feed him whatever I can get him to eat), and he'll either go lie down or want to lie on a lap. He goes out pretty much every 4 hours. We don't have a regular routine with taking him for walks. We have, but they take forever, with being blind, he walks slowly and smells everything. In the evening he is fed again and needs to take 2 more pills. He does like to play with his toys, you can't throw them obviously, but he plays tug, he sounds viscious, but he's not. We typically take him out around 10pm for the last time and go to bed. He sleeps in bed with us, between us. Like I previously mentioned, he'll cry when he needs to go out.