Saturday 17 August 2013

What do you do with a deaf dog?

Teach it sign language of course! My neighbour has a doberman who is deaf. She's not an old dog, just a deaf one, he tells us she can't hear a thing. So he taught her sign language so that she sits, stays, comes etc when he gives her the sign. It's not the sign language I know, he has made up his own signs to command the dog and she does exactly what he signs. A dog reads an owner's body language anyway so he has just extended on the idea. Very clever really.