Sentences with phrase «says deaf dogs»
Although it was once believed that deaf dogs could not be trained, many people that love and care for them say deaf dog training isn't difficult.
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The organization says that if you are going to live with a deaf dog, you must tune into the world of movement, vibration and light and use some type of sign language.
Training a deaf dog is not all that different than training a hearing dog, says Deaf Dog Education Action Fudog is not all that different than training a hearing dog, says Deaf Dog Education Action Fudog, says Deaf Dog Education Action FuDog Education Action Fund.
Other dogs can go deaf from a variety of causes, ranging from chronic ear infections or injuries to drug toxicity and old age, says George M. Strain, PhD, a leading veterinary researcher on the causes of deafness in dogs and a professor of neuroscience at the School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University.
Despite all the information available on caring for deaf dogs, Becker says many breeders still routinely euthanize deaf puppies.
Dogs that go deaf later in life seem to have little trouble adapting to their condition, Strain said.
Becker says at night it's easy, because deaf dogs can be taught to come in with the flash of a porch light or flashlight.
Some are dogs for the blind or other guide dogs, including those who help people who are deaf — assistance dogs that are able to alert people to a ringing telephone, doorbell, or smoke alarm, says Michelle Cobey, resource support coordinator with the Delta Society, an organization dedicated to promoting the benefits of service and therapy animals.
She says Ghost is the first deaf dog that the state has used in law enforcement — and might be the first in the country.
With people, they say if they lack one sense, ie deaf or blind, other senses increase to make up for their lack and this therory may be the same for dogs.
As the Deaf Dog Education Act Fund says so well, «Outside of an obvious physical defect, deaf dogs are just your normal, everyday dogs.