Update 2-20-2013: I now make all five of my dogs hearing and deaf have to “sit and wait” before I put their food dish down. If I lean forward to put the dish down and they lunge forward then I stand back up, put my
Since I get so many folks asking me about their deaf and hearing dogs going crazy the moment they walk in the door when they get home, I want to share with all of you what we do here on Bluebird Farm with all of
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Here is the second installation to our Guest Blogger series on Deaf Dogs Rock. I want to thank Allison for taking the time to write up this article on dog introductions. I do receive questions on how to best introduce a deaf dog to an
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I ran across this article in my issue of Modern Dog and I decided to look on-line to see if I could link to it for all of you deaf dog owners or folks who are thinking about adopting a “deafie”. This article ”Training Deaf
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Lately I’ve been getting so many questions on our Deaf Dogs Rock Facebook page asking about how to tell or train a deaf puppy “no”, “sit” or “laydown”. The video below shot by Alisha McGraw pretty much covers many of the basic deaf dog commands
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Let’s talk about tether training. Tethering is clipping one end of a leash to your dog and the other end of the leash to your belt. This training is great for deaf and hearing dogs alike. Early in deaf dog Nitro’s life he was playing in
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One of the most important commands you can teach your deaf dog or hearing dog is the “watch me” command. It is one of the first commands your deaf dog should learn from you when you start his/her training program. If you do this exercise
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When it comes to training deaf dogs, they can learn just like hearing dogs with just a slight tweak in the training program. With a hearing dog a person training a hearing dog would use verbal and visual commands and a person training a deaf
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I can honestly say I have never had a dog like my deaf dog Nitro who constantly has to get into absolutely everything. He loves to counter surf and until recently he would get into any garbage can in the house, that is until I
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It seems like everywhere Nitro and I go folks stop and ask us about Nitro’s Puppia Soft Harness (also known as a Wonder Vest). Because Nitro is deaf, I decided when he was a puppy that I would be more comfortable having a “double fail” system in
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