Man and dog

This is my wonderful husband, Simon, and our beautiful Chocolate Labrador Retreiver, Gozer.



Gozer is approximately 10 1/2 years young (she's a rescue, so that's our best guess). A couple of years ago she got diabetes. She was overweight at that time and lost 20 pounds in the 6 months following diagnosis. With 2 shots of vetsulin (yep, you guessed it, insulin for animals) a day we've managed to keep her high blood sugar at bay. She's managed to keep all the extra weight off.
The worse effect of the diabetes is vision loss. We think she can see outlines of shapes but probably not much else. She navigates the stairs in and around our house without any problems. She does not bump into furniture. She can't see food if you hold it in front of her, but she sure can smell it. Her hearing and smelling have definitely helped to compensate for the vision loss.