NOV 17 2022
even just running around with the dogs re introducing ourselves to " the main desk ' kind of thing... we provided amusement for 137 the first week and another 68 as of yesterday-- that first week we did a walk thru of one place with 62 people. every activities director is thrilled to talk with us...now if we can only schedule "real" visits in some logical geographic order all over essex county..
it is amazing what you run into..... someone... a deaf. someone.. had seen a dane walking on the beach in lynn and wanted to see if they could get a dane for hearing....
welll the dog they must have run into must have been the recently departed "opal" who was bentley's sister..in our wanderings judy aqnd i have made that connection... judy is pretty good at signing ASL... if there is anything i was LESS accomplished at learning than spanish... it was ASL . but i know a little-- enough to "talk" to the guy at home depot...i never practice... and i should-- at any rate... we will loook into that
.as for training a dog for a deaf person/.... the first serv dog i put out was "annie" for a woman who had balance issues and was deaf.... it did not take me long to add the deaf training... which in her case , she needed basically reacting to a repetitive noise...
it was a while ago--- where it was wires before blue tooth.... so i strung wire to a doorbell and put it over the door with a cup of goooooood treats i could sit in the sunroom and make it ring. annie went to the door-- as most dogs naturally do-- it did not take her too long to come to me and say" why are you not going to that noise"-
so i went. praising her as i went... reached for the noise/cookies and gave her some and stopped the noise.....
about 2 of those and she was trained to that---it didn't take long to. move the bell..... add someone knocking at the door....the cooking. timer, ---the phone... and someone calling a name...any repetitive noise... she worked beautifully for ?8 or 9 years.. and is buried here.. she was one of " the merle girls". all 3 great dogs/.
i would hate to guarentee a deaf dog training..... but my other "deaf trained dog" woke her owner and an entire appartment building when a fire broke out.. .i think that was in. ?pittsburg pa????-- and it was a merle too.. peggity !!
goldie at work again?
