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
Thanks to one of our new Deaf Dogs Rock adopters Dawn Peterson for adopting Hocus Pocus who we had listed on our site not to long ago. When I received a message from Hokie’s new mom Dawn, I also noticed on her cool new blog
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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
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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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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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I ran across this article this morning about how dogs should greet each other and thought it would give our readers something to think about. Nitro and I do it a little different then this trainer and you may have a certain way you want
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Since we have five dogs here on the farm at our Deaf Dogs Rock office and we train both of our deaf dogs in positive reinforcement clicker training (instead of a clicker we use and open flash of the hand or a thumbs up to
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Every time I see one of Pati Robin’s videos of her teaching her deaf puppy Shy Bella new tricks it totally warms my heart. She is a photographer, a mom and now an amazing deaf dog trainer. I am so proud of her and her
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