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My cocker spaniel went blind at five years of age.
It was sudden and at first she was terrified and so was I.
We went to U.C. Davis Veterinary university. She taught many new Veterinarians with her case.
With lots of love, attention and retraining she very happily lived to age fourteen.
She did have separation anxiety whenever I left her because I was her seeing eye person.
Solved that by buying a kennel and putting her in that whenever I left home without her, which wasn't very often.
One big problem was that I had trained her from birth to respond to hand signals, no voice commands.
We had to learn new commands and new words like "fence, hole, danger, etc"...
Because she liked a long lead and would often like to run free through the desert.
Swimming I would always insist she were on her lead.
Most humans never picked up on her blindness because she adapted so well.
Dogs, cats and other creatures figured it out pretty quickly except for one puppy who was trying to play hide & seek with her.
Hope my telling about my Windy helps you in some way.
(((HUGS)))
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