Photo: LUCY WORBOYS/AFP/Getty When Hurricane Dorianmade landfall in the Bahamaslast week, a blind man was forced to leave his own home in order to make sure his son, who cannot walk, stayed safe. As the storm touched down, Brent Lowe, 49, had taken refuge in his Abaco Islands home alongside his 24-year-old son, who has cerebral palsy, as well as several neighbors. “It was scary, so scary,” Lowe toldThe New York Times....

The Sioux City Animal Adoption and Rescue is playing matchmaker for a newly formed family of three.According toKCAU, last month, the Iowa animal shelter brought in a black-and-white cat born without eyes named Keller and then rescued the blind feline’s “seeing eye” cat, likely one-year-old Keller’s mother, a few days later.“It was a unique situation in the respect that we impounded the blind cat first, and the blind cat had no eyeballs and was not neutered,” Cindy Rarrat, the director of Sioux City Animal Adoption and Rescue, told the outlet....

Photo: Charlie And Maverick/Instagram You’ve heard of humans having seeing eye dogs, but what aboutdogshaving seeing eye dogs? Meet Charlie: an 11-year-old golden retriever. In 2016, Charlie’s owners Adam and Chelsea Stipe had to get his left eye removed after suffering from glaucoma. A year later, the pup was forced to remove his other eye, causing him to go completely blind,Todayreported. But now, the adorable golden has a new pal to help him navigate the world — a 4-month-old puppy named Maverick....

Photo: Blossom and Her FamilyDonny is a natural do-gooder.The 2-year-old rescue cat was born without eyes and with the neurological condition Cerebellar Hyperplasia, which causes him to wobble and fall over when he walks.These differences have never held Donny back. In fact, he is “the most charming cat in the world,” according to his rescuers atNorth Shore Animal League America(NSALA).Susan Smith thought so, too. When she saw a picture of Donny, Smith instantly knew she needed to meet this sweet feline, then just 3 months old....

Photo: Stephen Shkuratoff/Facebook How would you describe your dog? What’s their personality? How soft are they? What other animals do they look like? This is what Stephen Shkuratoff of Calgary, Canada, wanted to know. Shkuratoff is a devoted dog lover and a blind man. He is also a member of the Facebook groupDogspotting Society— a place for members ofdifferent Dogspotting groupsto discuss their own dogs and get to know other group members....

Thomas Panek made history at Sunday’s 2019 New York City Half Marathon, becoming the first blind runner ever to complete the 13.1-mile course with the help of guide dogs. The athlete, who is president and CEO of the nonprofit schoolGuiding Eyes for the Blind, found himself in the record books thanks to a trio of Labrador Retrievers named Westley, Waffle, and Gus. They were the first four-legged athletes ever in the race....

Photo: Alvin Chan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty A blind man says he wants to readPlayboyfor the articles but can’t. On Wednesday, Donald Nixon — who is legally blind — filed a lawsuit against the legendary company’s website, claiming that it was in violation of the American with Disabilities Act, TMZreported. Both Playboy.com and Playboyshop.com are allegedly not compatible with Nixon’s screen-reading software, which allows blind or visually impaired users to read the text with a speech synthesizer or braille display, according to theAmerican Foundation for the Blind....

Photo: Cristy O Photography Heather DeLoach Greinerhas a new member of the hive! The pair, whotied the knot in October 2017, also share daughterOlivia May, who turns 2 years old next month. Want to get the biggest stories fromPEOPLEevery weekday?Subscribe to our new podcast,PEOPLE Every Day,to get the essential celebrity, entertainment and human interest news stories Monday through Friday. Cristy O Photography RELATED GALLERY:Celebrity Babies Born in 2021 (So Far!)...

Photo:@Cristyophotography @Cristyophotography The couple welcomed son Andrew Stephen Greiner on Saturday, July 29, 2023, at 7:21 p.m., they confirm to PEOPLE. Andrew was born weighing 5 lbs., 13 oz. and measuring 19 in. long. “Our little hive is complete! This little cutie has brought so much love and light into our lives,” the new mom of three, 40, shares. “I am so very blessed that I get to be a stay-at-home mom these days and focus on my family and raising my three beautiful children....

Heather DeLoach— best known for playing a bespectacled tap-dancing kid dressed in a bee costume in the music video forBlind Melon‘s 1992 hit“No Rain”— has welcomed her first child, with husband Matthew Greiner. The couple’s daughter Olivia May Greiner arrived on Thursday, May 23, in Irvine, California, DeLoach exclusively confirms to PEOPLE. She weighed 5 lbs., 5 oz., and measured 18½ inches long. “We received so many fun bee gifts for her, from costumes to burp clothes to little blankets with bees all over them....

A puppy to in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is looking to go from trash to treasure. According toa post from the Fort Wayne Animal Care & Control Facebook page, the puppy is “just 4 months old but has already gone through so much in his short life.” The little dog was found caught in a cage that was dumped in a trash can. A garbage truck driver discovered the discarded dog on March 20....

Photo: Frank MoeIndy the sled dog’s lack of vision isn’t holding him back in the slightest.The 7-year-old Alaskan husky lost his sight in one eye three years ago, his owner Frank Moe toldMPR News. From there, Moe began training him to run in Minnesota alongside Popcorn, another canine on the his sled dog team.However, Indy soon lost vision in his second eye, Moe said. But after a year of adjustment, Indy began running once again, this time in some recreational races to get comfortable running blind....

Molly Burke.Photo: Morgan Lieberman/FilmMagicFor most young girls, learning to shave their legs is a rite of passage that typically comes in their early teens. But for social media personality Molly Burke, who is blind, it’s one that came just two years ago, at age 25.“Whenever I do something that I’ve never been able to do before, or I’ve never tried before and I do it successfully — or honestly, even if I fail — it’s always a good feeling knowing that I pushed myself to do something that’s maybe out of my comfort zone or that I doubted myself on,” Burke, 27, tells PEOPLE....