It's only been less than 2 months, and Maddie has been adapting quite well. Still bumping into things, especially when she gets excited and starts running around aimlessly, but less than before. We try and leave things the way they are, and we try not to leave things on the floor.
Early on after she had been diagnosed with retinal detachment in her left eye (the retina in her right eye had detached over a year ago), we noticed that she would like to go around the house "the hard way". What I mean by that is, she would take very indirect "routes" and like to go up and over obstacles such as the bottoms of chairs and coffee tables. We thought it was very strange, but as long as she's not hurting herself, we decided it would be ok.
Lately we've been noticing that whenever we bring her back into the house after doing her business outdoors, she has been rubbing her body against the wall, cupboards, chairs, sofas etc. Again we through it was strange, but nothing we can really do about it. She wasn't hurting herself, and she wasn't damaging anything. One night, the lightbulb went off in our heads! She was doing this to guide her in and around the house after the change in environment (being outside and now back inside). It was her way of re-familiarizing and re-orienting herself in the house. It's exactly like how a human who can't see would most likely use their hands to feel their way around!
Seems like dogs are smarter than I thought.
