Mutton and visually impaired pets!

[rosemary johnson]

Gareth B has just realised he can see quafruple:
Wow, well done; you're catching up.
I've been seeing 6 (minimum) of everything since I was a teenager.
And with my piggybacking scleral and d/d soft lens in my right eye, I can see between three and five of everything, depending who/when I blink.
No wonder I read so slowly!!!!!
This is actually quite easy to work out at the moment, as the browser I'm using doesn't clear the whole screen properly always when it pages down the the next screenful. So there's a stray cyan "o" at the right hand side of the screen, left behind from something, and a stray cyan "?" a few lines higher up, and a green "m" about an inch further in.
Or rather, there are very dinstinctly three of each - and the most solid of ech of the threes is actually three very close together..... so the solitary "o" looks rather like (FUZZ-tot he power o) all to the power o.
The brown writing i s quite illegible, but the browser colour settings aren't something I can change, alas.


BTW, as regards sheep.......
Please don't lagh about sheep and cataracts; I actually did used to ride a horse called Barney who was then in the process of developing cataracts in both eyes. He used to go round the paddock - and along the bridle path in the forest, with his head on one side. I suppose he was trying to see what he could around the fuzzy patches. Mind, he always was more interested in everything going on in the nearby area for miles around and totally un-interested in paying any attention to his rider!
As for mutton - it's available round here. The halal butchers up the High Street where I live have signs in the window saying "mutton". ANd I have heard that when it says "meat" on the menus of curry restaurants, it's often mutton.
I suspect it's more a case of what the paying public will uy that determines the name given to any particular piece of dead sheep. Where I was staying in Africa a few years ago, all sheep meat was called mutton, including, or so I was told, what over here we'd call "lamb".
Rosemary

[GarethB]

Rosemary,

I had to concentrate really hard to see quadruple

Normally evrything is so blurred I can not see the distinction between the images, it is just one blur

Oldest dog (will be 13 on Wed 13 Sept) walked into a table today and when I looked in to her eyes, they looked ever so foggy Poor thing just aint with it, she has old lady problems and walks most the time as if she has been on the booze. She's doing quite well considering she is supposed to be 91 in human terms.

The younger puppy (10 years) is just plain stupid like he was when we first got him. Had to risk life and limb to clean his teeth today. Nver quite know how to take him when he glares at you with one eye glowing red

Only my daughter that has good eye sight, the wife is so short sighted without her glasses it's sometimes hard to tell who's got the KC!

Perhaps dogs can catch weird eye syndrome from their owners?

[Matthew_]

Actually dogs cannot see very well in the first place. If they had to wear glasses they would be serious jam jars! Humans (KC aside) have fantastic eyesight even by mammal standards which are very high! Fortunately dogs have an amazing sense of smell. If you try putting a wee bit of lavender on your furniture your dog will quickly learn where things are and stop bumping into them. Also if you keep everything the same and not move it around that will help.
If only we had the same sense of smell, KC wouldn't be a problem.
Can't help you with glowing red eyes, is that an agression issue you're eluding too, might be able to help you with that too.

[GarethB]

Furniture has been in the same place for 11 years!

As for sense of smell, her favourite place to lie in the graden is in the bushes which are heavily scented!

Put lavender on the furniture she will probably think it's a soft bed to lie on!

Bubble wrap on everything is the way forward I think!

[Andrew MacLean]

Contrary to the popular myth, bats are not blind. They do have relatively poor sight, but they do also have amazing hearing.

They develop quite complex "cognitive maps" of their environment by their sense of hearing and not sight. Like dogs and the sense of smell, bats more than compensate for their poor sight by listening to the world.

I guess if we all had the hearing of a bat and could discriminate smells like a dog, we'd be able to lean less heavily on our sight.

Matthew, how do divers manage in the murky deep when their hearing is compromised by masks and helmets and their sense of smell is eliminated by nose clips and "ask valves"?

I don't imagine that the sense of touch is too dependable in the cold submarine environment.

Andrew

edit ... bubble wrap on everything would lead to a very relaxed family. Do you remember the Red Dwarf in which Rimmer travelled back in time and gave his younger self a sheet of bubble wrap so that he could patent it as a tension relief. (sit and pop the bubbles and all your tensions subside).

[Matthew_]

Vision is not the primary sense for most marine animals (not that I am a marine animal!). But sight isn't that great, mostly its dark where I dive and very murky. Sound is more useful underwater but neoprene hoods mitigate this and there is no idea of direction of the sound. Sense ends up being the very useful. You often have to grope your way around or get your mask up close to stuff to see it. Colour gets all skewed too because you cannot see red below a certain depth. Basically, you just make the best of it but I quite like it because I am used to not seeing that well,its the other divers who are at a disadvantage. Its like wallking the dog at night, people always say "its too dark" but I can see just as badly at night as in the daytime! Between me and the dog (with his array of super senses) we get along fine; he always knows where I am anyway!

[Matthew_]

Gareth,
I was just trying to help, sorry if I was trying to tell you what to do with your own dog!

[GarethB]

Someone one who will remain namelss took this so far off track I just had to split the topic before John screamed at me

[Matthew_]

Not again, who keeps doing that?

[GarethB]

Matthew,

I blame the regulars here, they are a bad influence.

To give an idea of how stupi my dogs are (or how clever depending on your take!), when the younger dog was a puppy he went through a real bad chewing phase. Tried everything in the house before coating everything in chewing range in curry sauce, the strongest I could get. It stopped him chewing the wood but now he has a real taste for curry sauce, he just can't get enough of it!