The Big Dog Parade

This is Cleo's costume for the parade. Cleo walked with over 1500 dogs in Santa Barbara, CA at the Big Dog Parade to help benefit homeless dogs. She also walked to bring awareness that blind dogs love people and love a parade. Many people had to ask if she was really blind. She was wearing her shades.

This is Chulo, Cleo's brother. He is a shelter dog that we adopted and was 20 pounds underweight. He only weighs 43 pounds now. We named him Chulo which means Pretty Boy since he was in such sorry shape when he came here. He is Cleo's best friend and helper on walks. They walk on brace and he shows her the curbs and watches out for her. My animals make me feel very blessed at times.

Cleo and Chulo making friends along the way!

This is Cleo au natural, her left eye is a prosthesis and notice the enlargement of the right eye. She will be visiting the eye vet this coming Thursday to start procedures to have that eye removed. Glaucoma is a devastating disease for the pet owner. It happens over night. The expense of treatment will blow out most peoples wallets. We are fortunate we could afford to treat this. We also understand that many can not. And any treatment from just the shots, or eye removal is the most humane thing to do. Dogs going blind is not the end of the world, they learn to function very well. The important thing is to get treatment for glaucoma whatever one can afford. It is extremely painful for the dog. And allowing any dog to suffer such pain is wrong.