Owning a deaf dog

Some  are deaf from birth possibly because of a genetic defect, or damage from a load noise, other became deaf with age, this bring us to the next problem can owners cope with a deaf dog?

Having a young deaf puppy means the owners are going to need to take a little more time in training. They are going to need to learn to communicate more clearly than they would do so normally. However, for the owners of dogs that gradually become deaf, they will find that if it knows it area, it will learn to live with the changes that increasing deafness will bring.

You might think that the dog is more prone to injury because it cannot hear the car horn as it crosses the street, but in fact, the dog then relies more on its other senses-such as sight and learns to look left and right.

This means that in both cases, the real thing that is missing is getting their attention when you need it in order to give a command.

If you have a dog that is or is becoming deaf then it is possible to test this. We can clap our hand or try various types of whistles, We can try clickers, to see if it can at least hear them, even if it cannot hear our voice stamping our feet on the ground or tapping with a stick might also make your dog turn its head towards you. The next question is to learn the degree of the loss of hearing. This we can learn by making a noise when the dog is at a distance and then observing if the dog turns towards us.

For those that can hear minimally the owner car train it just like any other, but without the verbal commands. As I so often say, verbal commands are not vitally important to a dog as they are looking for our body language to tell them what it is we want them to do. How often the unfolding of your arms will bring your dog back to you before you have even called its name. This does not mean you stop talking to it, because what you say reflects in your facial expression and body language, which a deaf dog can eventually understand.