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Ponietz

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Wed Oct 1, 2025, 10:12 PM

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Keep a consistent environment — don’t move furniture or her food and water bowls. Really good lighting helps them. Also, there are Halo collars that will warn them if they’re about to bump into anything. You can enrich her environment giving her different and new things to smell. Scent will be her world, so thank goodness dogs can smell 100,000x better than us. Also, use stair gates to protect her.

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