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Karat has to have been the best dog I ever had the chance to call my own. She is beautiful, she is obedient, she stayed by my side, she loves to ride in the car. Chessie is beautiful, but she has a mind of her own. She hates to ride in the car, mostly, I suppose, because it seems to upset her stomach - classic car sickness. But Chessie was jealous. She never used to follow me around, but suddently, she wanted to know why Karat was with me. She watched our every move (how does a partly sighted dog watch? With her nose.) She took every toy I gave Karat, even while in the midst of her favorite game of tug.

So I took her back. It would not have been fair to either dog to force them to share this space. Karat is always going to be submissive. Chessie is always going to take the toys. Karat will find a great home - there must be 200 families on the waiting list. And bottom line, Chess is the dog I love, so she comes first.

One positive outcome - besides increasing my high respect for the professionalism of the Guiding Eyes people - I had to buy a new water/food dish. I took Karat and Mega down to at Pet Pantry to see what we could find. And because they no longer carried my usual choice, a round hard plastic "crock" model, I chose a new kind. It's made by PetMate. The one I have is called the FreshFlow model, and it's just heavy enough to stay in place when the dogs eat from it. The bottom edge has a scallop shape cut out of each side, which makes it easy to pick up.