by A blind husky named Mackenzie loves snow days and can’t wait to go outside and play! When it snowed recently at her home in Ontario, Canada, the dog steps outside and the second she senses it’s snowing she jumps into play position and prances around in the back yard. Her mom caught the happy moment on camera and shared the video of her excitedly circling and sniffing in the snow.
Mackenzie’s mom shared on Instagram that she is the family’s very first dog.
“Mackenzie is our very first dog so going through the process of her blindness seemed very normal to us,” she wrote. “Even more so because she is so confident, she gets around new places just fine and can play fetch like a normal dog! I even forget she’s blind sometimes because she stares right into my eyes when she looks at me. (She knows where your face is since she used to be able to see!)”
But Mackenzie’s mom does have to signal to MacKenzie if there are stairs approaching or they are going to an unfamiliar place, otherwise she gets a reproachful look.
The park is not unfamiliar territory. While visiting it recently, Mackenzie discovered a soccer ball and couldn’t resist playing a game of “keep away”.
Mackenzie has also learned to sense when her mom drops the leash and so she stops what she’s doing and never leaves her mom’s side. What a smart pup!
She just loves snow days, like any husky!
For those wondering, Mackenzie wasn’t born blind, but she developed glaucoma as a puppy due to bad genetics. Mackenzie’s mom says they got Mackenzie through someone on Kijiji, an online marketplace. She realizes now that bad breeding was a big factor and writes, “We don’t want to think ill of the person we got them from because we are blessed to have Mackenzie and Zorro [Mackenzie’s half-blind brother] in our lives but we do think they should get their dogs tested.” [Ed note: sadly online classifieds have puppies for sale that usually are from a puppy mill or backyard breeder, so please, beware!]
But Mackenzie is a very lucky dog to have found such a loving family. And she has a very happy disposition. Simply put, she’s a normal dog!
