Sunday, May 22, 2005
My dog Sophie
My dog amazes me. I call her "Sophie the one-eyed wonder dog". We got her free from the pound because she was what they call a humane adoption. She was squished in the womb and has an underdeveloped head. That's why she was born blind in one eye. The man who dropped her off at the pound when she was 6 months said she was too stupid to potty train. Okay she's a little slow sometimes but we had her trained in a few week. Mind you we need new carpet now, but with 4 teenage boys the beige carpet didn't have an chance anyway! Sophie is part whippet and, we think, part bull terrier. She has a very short lower jaw so we had to get some teeth filed down so she could close her mouth. Where she's not slow is in her running. I have never seen a one-eyed dog that can cut around the table and chairs with such precision. She runs so fast that she's run up the walls. We like taking her to the dog park to meet other dogs and she runs them ragged once she gets over her shyness. It kind of scares her when they come up on her blind side. But when she gets going, they can't keep up. She different from the other greyhounds and whippets that come to the park in that she cuts in and out instead of running a straight line. She's an amazing dog and we love her to death. My husband takes her to Weinersnitzel all the time for hotdogs! Like I said, she's a spoiled dog.
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We lost our wonderful Sophie in Sept. 2016. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about her.
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