患病的白眼圈狗狗成網紅
Meet Rowdy, the Inspiring Labrador Retriever With Vitiligo
患病的白眼圈狗狗成網紅Rowdy, a 13-year-old black lab from Canby, Oregon, achieved Internet fame when his photo appeared on The Dogist, a wildly popular photo blog featuring striking portraits of canines.
Rowdy來自俄勒岡州坎比市，是隻13歲大的拉布拉多犬。自從有人把他的照片發佈到知名犬類照片博客The Dogist上後，他一夜之間成了網紅。
Rowdy is no ordinary pup. He has vitiligo, and works as a therapy dog with the American Vitiligo Research Foundation.
Rowdy可不是一般的狗狗，他患有白癜風，現在在美國白癜風研究基金會做治療犬。
Vitiligo is a disorder that causes loss of pigmentation in patches of skin—and in Rowdy's case, fur. The cause of the incurable condition, which affects between 0.5% and 1% of the human population, is unknown, though many experts believe it is an autoimmune disease.
白癜風是一種皮膚色素失調導致局部皮膚脫色的病，Rowdy則在毛上產生了病變。According to the website Rowdy's owners, Tim and Niki Umbenhower, created for him, Rowdy started to develop white fur around his eyes at age 12. Within a year, the patches grew into bigger circles (his fans have described him as a "reverse panda"), and his belly and toenails also turned white. Rowdy was eventually diagnosed with vitiligo by a vet dermatologist, who confirmed his condition through a biopsy.
大約有0.5%-1%的人罹患這種難以治癒的病症，病因至今未知，雖然很多專家認爲是患者自身免疫力出了問題。"He's our own little celebrity around town," Tim said in a 2015 interview with Fox 12 Oregon. "Everybody loves to stop us and ask us what we did to him and if we painted it on there."
“他可是我們市的名人，”2015年，Tim在俄勒岡州Fox 12頻道的採訪中說，“看到他的人經常會跑過來，問我們是否故意把他的眼圈染成了白色。”As an ambassador for the American Vitiligo Research Foundation, Rowdy visits children affected by the same pigmentation disorder that's made him so famous (@white-eyed-rowdy has more than 55,000 followers on Instagram). According to his owners, he has "built some relationships with kids with vitiligo who may have also been bullied because of it."
作爲美國白癜風研究基金會的大使，Rowdy經常去看望同樣患有此病的小朋友，這讓他非常出名（@white-eyed-rowdy在Ins上有5.5萬粉絲）。據他的主人講，“他給很多因患白癜風而遭到歧視和欺凌的小朋友帶來安慰。”Even before he began his work raising awareness about vitiligo, Rowdy led a remarkable life. According to his website, he was once accidentally shot in the leg by a police officer in a case of mistaken identity. But that wasn't his only near brush with death: After drinking contaminated pond water, he needed to have his stomach pumped. Rowdy has also had surgery on both ears, a toe removed, treatment for a torn ACL, and more.
Rowdy在成爲白癜風宣傳大使出名之前，也有不凡的經歷。他的網站上寫道，他曾因爲身份不明，腿部意外被警察擊中。但這並不是他第一次與死神擦肩而過：還有次他不小心喝了有毒的水，洗胃後才脫離險境。他的雙耳都做過手術，還曾因爲韌帶撕裂被截去一個腳趾。。。譯文屬原創，僅供學習和交流使用，未經許可，請勿轉載。
