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 Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/04/12 04:26 AM
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Man that is really awesome! I have followed your posts and pics of her for years, and have always considered her the best dog on this forum. Seems like she will do almost anything for you, good to see that you return that favor. Your sons face is pretty awesome, would have been cool to be there. Best of luck in the future....if any dog could do it, I think it is her!
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/04/12 04:34 AM
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No words, other then Blaze of Glory.
Freedom is a fragile thing ...Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.
-- Ronald Reagan
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/04/12 12:54 PM
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Good stuff. The look on your boy's face says it all.
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/04/12 01:05 PM
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Haven't had it in years but never spit any out. I am a sucker for happy endings and strapped cowboys.
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/04/12 01:25 PM
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/04/12 01:54 PM
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She's amazing, your boys facial expression before and after she found the bird was priceless. That dog has a lot of support at home, I wish her the best. ^^^^^^^^^That sums it up perfectly.
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/04/12 01:56 PM
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Awesome video. And yeah, hard to choke back the tears.
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/04/12 02:31 PM
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She still loves the hunt. Glad you are still getting her out. She is a great dog and friend.
From experience with a blind dog, do not change up the furnature in the house it is amazing how a blind dog can get around in familiar surroundings but something like a new coffee table can cause problems for a while. My sister had a small house dog that went blind at an early age, he still loved to fetch and play but that new coffee table caused him headachea for a long time. Yea, we still got a ways to go. What I did not share were the trees she crashed into. The cactus needles I pulled out of her front legs and chest. She ran into the gate in front of our camp house at a full run twice. But she did learn a mental map of the camphouse fairly fast. We are rearranging some things at home initially to get some hazzards like table corners out of her path. But hunting free in mesquite flats and cactus is is over for her. Even though she is being taught a new word "careful" to use to warn her when she is approaching a hazard, where hazards are everywhere in every direction, I have found it can't work unless she is short leashed at heel. But hunting field, prairie, and marsh, with her nose she will shine. The ability to overcome adversity. That's what I got out of that. Animals and dogs in particular can teach us things about our shortcomings. I've never seen a dog feel sorry for itself. I've never seen a dog wallow in self pity. John, the video is a tribute to instinct and will. A poem by D.H. Lawrence comes to mind. Self Pity I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/04/12 02:53 PM
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man that tugs on your heart strings! Wish her the best of luck!
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/04/12 05:03 PM
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There are a few people that love their dogs as much as I love mine; and you clearly do. I entirely respect your care of and relationship with Blaze.
Last edited by jdk1985; 09/04/12 05:15 PM.
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/04/12 05:13 PM
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Awesome video. And yeah, hard to choke back the tears. x2 but looks like there is no reason to. She will have a great quality of life from the looks of it  
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/05/12 01:57 AM
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There ain't nothing wrong with that dog, she deserves to be out there just as Much as any other in her mind and it shows... Beautiful dog
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/05/12 03:01 AM
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She's amazing, your boys facial expression before and after she found the bird was priceless. That dog has a lot of support at home, I wish her the best. ^^^^^^^^^That sums it up perfectly. Amen to that!! Amazing
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/05/12 07:25 AM
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Thanks for the nice comments guys. The slide show was just done on google's free movie maker where I simply uploaded the folder of pictures, put them in the order I felt best, added the music and clicked "make movie". The song I added just felt like would fit, but I did not intend it to seem so sad. Coolie76 got it and the D.H. Lawrence poem explains what I could not seem to find a way to express. She has no self pity and in her brain, she still thinks she can do anything she wants. Yes, she will have to be retired from some types of hunting I normally used her for, at least temporarily, but there will always be plenty of other hunting roles that will allow her to continue to do what she was born to do. The prognosis is that at least one eye is operable. We have a human in the family needing surgery that will come first, but I promise we will help Blaze to see again. With our budget and time we are shooting for springtime to have cataract sugery done for at least one, maybe both eyes. But if it turns out she is not operable come that day, its ok. Blaze will continue to do what Blaze does and her nephew Dash will be ready to fill in the gaps and then some. 
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/06/12 01:08 AM
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Wow, dam sure not easy to watch but it is amazing how she still loves to be out hunting. I don't think there will ever be a time from now on I wont think of her when I hear that song.
Anyone can own a fancy gun but can you shoot it ?
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/06/12 12:39 PM
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I have been a way for a while. Sorry to hear about blaze. Glad to see she still wants to hunt.
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/06/12 12:48 PM
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/06/12 01:33 PM
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 hard to watch but awesome at the same time. That is one special dog you have and my hats off to you and her both.
 "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun"
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/06/12 01:50 PM
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God has a away of bringing animals, especially dogs, into our lives for a multitude of reasons. Blaze is one of those Dogs that will touch your heart for years to come. God Bless and I thank you for being such a responsible owner to take care of a "family member" the way you are.
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/06/12 10:59 PM
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very touching.
Daisy sends her best.
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/07/12 01:55 AM
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tough to watch, always aim to please,
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/07/12 05:40 PM
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Good video. I'll have to send this to my wife. It will surely bring back memories of our Colt who we lost earlier this year. She still struggles with the loss, but she doesn't want to forget him. I made a tribute video of him and she balls every time she watches it like it was the first time.
You have many good hunts left with her, enjoy them. Wish you guys the best.
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Re: Blaze - Retrieving Blind
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09/11/12 10:18 PM
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Well as always Blaze is amazing, to bad the story has come to this.... But she has great family that take exceptional care of her. I am sure you have many more years of joy with her. But have to agree this was hard to watch, I remember when you started post photos of her and she was still a pup.
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