Blind sled dog to retire after 4 years

CHURCHILL, Manitoba, (UPI) -- A blind Canadian sled dog who continued pulling for four years in northern Manitoba is retiring to move closer to her doctor, her owners said.

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Isobel, a 9-year-old Siberian husky-malamute cross lives in Churchill, and lost her eyesight to a viral infection, the Winnipeg Free Press reported Wednesday. Her owners, Gerald and Jenofar Azure, said a veterinary ophthalmologist from Alberta told them in 2005 the dog was no longer fit to pull in a sled team, but the dog refused to be excluded. "She runs better now than she did with her eyesight," Jenofar said. "She doesn't know she's blind anymore." More...

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