Advice on helping a one-eyed puppy

Factual Questions
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Today I sponsored a dog at the local animal shelter. The sponsorship scheme is designed for people that love animals, but can’t have one at home (pets forbidden in my apartment block). You pay an annual fee, get quarterly updates about your animal, and you can visit it to take it for walks if you like. If the animal is lucky enough to get a permanent home, your sponsorship transfers to another pup.

Anyway, I picked Cody. He’s a one-year-ish mongrel, with some doberman in him. He has some strange bald patches on his back that the vet believes are burn scars. He is also about to have his left eye taken out tomorrow, because it has gone blind and is infected. He has a lovely, sweet nature, and nuzzles people with real affection, even though he is still very thin (they think he will put on weight once the bad eye is removed).

I would like advice on what special ways I need to treat him when I visit him, and take him for a walk, compared to a full-sighted dog.

Any vets or animal carers with experience in disabled animals, please post information if you have it.

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My mom’s dog lost an eye when it picked a fight with a much bigger dog. It happened when he was young, maybe 2 years old. The missing eye never seemed to bother him at all, and we certainly didn’t change how we treated him. I would still rough-house with him, play fetch, etc. It took him a little while to learn that the big black world to his left did not equate to empty space and that, in fact, there might be something there. When he was simply walking around this never seemed to be a problem, but if he quickly turned to run after a toy or something, he would occasionally discover that he had been standing next to a coffeetable leg. After smacking his head two or three times, though, he stopped doing that.

Anyway, he’s ancient now (like 12 or 13 years old), always seemed happy, and is still kickin’. So, in my completely non-expert opinion, treat him like normal. Dogs are amazingly adaptive creatures.