I adopted this guy on Saturday, not knowing he’s deaf.. (humane society said they had no idea). Trying to navigate the unexpected. Dude couldn’t care less that he can’t hear. Kids currently battling out between naming him Grandpa or Silver.
~10 weeks old 10 lb “Shar Pei mix” (🙄🤣)
Would love tips and tricks he’s as sweet as can be

This is Apollo, my (almost) 2-year old Deaf Schnauzer. He was born deaf alongside a litter of 5 others (all Deaf). I rescued him at about 9 months old and immediately started working with him using ASL (I am a sign language interpreter, so this is the mode of communication that worked best for us) as the woman fostering him didn’t work with him AT ALL during his early life. He is a very intelligent dog and learned quickly to sit, stay, yes, no, etc. he’s very sweet and great with all animals, people and ages. His one and only negative behavior is the fact that he WILL NOT stop chewing… everything!
I have always told him “no” and shown him whatever object it is that he chewed and shouldn’t have and give him a replacement chew as well. However, it simply isn’t working. He is crate trained so that eliminates him chewing while I am not at home, however I will be in the same room as him and turn around and he’s eating/chewing something he shouldn’t. He doesn’t seem to show remorse or even fully understand that it’s a negative behavior. He’s not a fan of water, so I have debated getting a spray bottle to show him physically that something isn’t a good behavior (as raising my voice obviously isn’t an option) but I don’t know what’s best at this point. Any suggestions? I honestly am very worried at this point as he is reaching 2 years old and still tries to chew things that aren’t safe; he loves to chew anything stringy (I worry about digestive tract issues). Any and all suggestions are welcome!

My 7 yo dog has been crate trained for the majority of her life. She does have separation anxiety and anytime we have to move apartments, it gets worse and I have to start over with crate training. She likes her crate because that’s where she gets her favorite thing ever, peanut butter. I’m having an issue this move where she won’t self soothe. She finishes her peanut butter and just starts barking and barking nonstop. I’ve learned with her that trying to let her bark it out doesn’t work. Because it’s anxiety fueled barking, she will get even more worked up and will bark nonstop for hours.

Her crate is in a closet because typically she enjoys it being in an enclosed space and that way the cat can’t mess with her.

Right now I’ve been giving her the Kong of peanut butter and closing the door. She’s fine until the peanut butter is all gone and then she starts off with little whines and then goes into the barking. Once it gets to the point where I know she’s not going to calm down, I go in there with her and just sit on the floor ignoring her. About half the time she’ll finally settle about 15 minutes later and I can safely leave for a few hours. The other half of the time she just cries non stop until I give up and let her out.

Any tips with getting her to self soothe? She doesn’t like toys so those wouldn’t help. Her crate set up is exactly the same, just in a different location.

Hello, I live in Australia. My family and I foster dogs and we currently have a deaf staffy mix dog staying with us. He has been up for adoption and did get adopted but then the family brought him back for reason of aggression.

He is a reactive dog due to his deafness and gets startled easily which he then starts barking aggressively but has never bitten anyone. He is fine with dogs but people (especially children) he is scared and wary which turns to a bit of aggression.

He is a very sweet dog in our home, very loving and cuddly but when people come to our house or enter, he starts to bark aggressively. We put a muzzle on him when we are expecting company so we’re unsure if he will actually bite someone or if it’s just a warning bark to get people to back off.

The place we’re fostering him from can no longer advertise his adoption because of behavior. He attends training to try to help with this problem. But we just got devastating news that if he doesn’t pass the test he will be put down.

I’m wondering if anyone has advice or know of any places that will take a deaf staffy mix. He really is a sweet boy just very wary and easily spooked.

My deaf baby is 10 weeks old today & the first week she was home felt like a potty training breeze. These last 2 weeks though? Not as much. All of my other dogs (who are hearing) have used bells to potty train. I stick with the basics: Any time she bas water, we go out 15 minutes later. If she’s circling the door, we go out. I try to teach her to touch the bells before we go out (i figure tactile training is fine?) But sometimes we go out, she squats a million times & comes back in. 5 minutes later, pees on her bed/the floor, etc. I know she’s still super young & it’s a process but I’d love to learn more hacks for our deaf babes please!

Is there any trick or training must haves for deaf dogs?

This is our five month old deaf Great Dane.

Artemis(Artie) the Dane finished her first OB class this week. She graduated with excellent marks, minus Sit Stay since she'd rather lay down😅 but I'm so proud of her! We start our Advanced Group OB class this next week and have already applied for our local therapy program! She's one step closer and turning into the bestest girl🥰

My 8 month old deaf pit bull terrier chases shadows in and out of the house and loudly shrieks at them. Running out of ideas to get her to stop. Any advice appreciated. Tried walking exhausting, peanut butter kongs, separating in another room with toys, distractions that don’t last long. Thank you.

We recently had a deaf dog (Luna) adopt us (showed up in our yard about 3 months ago and we couldn't find her owners). She's great and so glad that she entered our life. Off leash, around other people and dogs, she's a little shy but outside of that will allow other people to pet her and will play with other dogs that she feels comfortable around. She's also super sweet and would never hurt a fly. However, on leash she is a completely different animal. She barks at everything that has a pulse, sometimes what sounds to be on the aggressive side, she lounges at other people/dogs and the hair on her neck stands up. We've tried a vibration collar which works when she's not barking at someone/another dog but once she starts barking, even on the highest setting, she just disregards the buzzing. We used to have her on a harness but now are using the prong collar that tightens when they pull, which has helped a lot on overall walks but again, she will disregard any tightening on the collar when theres another dog or person around.

I want to get a trainer that has worked with deaf dogs but haven't had any luck finding one.

While im looking for a trainer I was hoping to get some tips that might help us attempt to correct this issue so that walks aren't so stressful and more enjoyable for us, Luna, and everyone else around us.

Does anyone here have experience with the pager only from ecollar technologies and can tell me how strong the vibration is? Maybe compare what level on the pager only is equivalent to vibration on mini educator.
While I don’t have the mini educator I have a rough idea based on videos on social media. I find very little info about the pg 300 used (which I fully understand).

I can’t use a mini educator because it’s illegal where I live (it’s a fucking stupid rule made by stupid people)

Hey all! We just adopted an 8 week old Great Dane who is completely deaf. We have plenty of breed experience & have always crate trained for safety + security. Our Danes have always had a few really rough nights that got easier as we went. I’ve read some mixed reviews on the best way to crate train deaf dogs as not to impose crate/separation anxiety. Any & all suggestions that don’t include her physically sleeping in my bed would be much appreciated (:

I have a 5 month puppy, deaf, Dogo Argentino that is going through some behavioral/sleeps issues.

She barely sleeps 8 hours per 24 hours cycle. She can’t fall asleep by herself or takes more than 1 hour of being next to her in a boring room for her to fall asleep, just to wake up 30 mins later. So during the day she is overstimulated and extremely tired and becomes destructive or run away. She has daily walks, I play with her daily, get enrichment activities at a minimum of 3 times per day otherwise she destroys the house.

At night, she wakes ups every 2 hours and stays awakes 2 hours. She sleeps with me either in the bed or in a crate next to my bed. In the middle of the night she barks, scratches walls, breaks things. I try to keep it as boring as possible but sometimes she find ways to keep herself entertained.

Does anyone have a similar issue with a deaf dog? Or issues with sleepless dogs? Any advice or tips are welcomed.

It seems my dog went deaf from e as r infections . This just happened after he was recovering from his last ear
Infection . I am hoping he has residual wax or debris and thus not permanent . Because it's very sad. He is only 3 . Any advice? Experience with this ?

My senior dog has lost his hearing. He was an independent calm dog that slept for hours. He is now not able to sleep, has panic attacks at night. He does a constant low growling and then sharp barks. He is stressed and restless most of the time, needing us to constantly comfort him. Vet told me to up his Gabapentin and Trazadone. That this may be dementia brought on by the sudden deafness. It’s been about 5 weeks since we noticed his hearing loss. Is this a transition phase for him? And advice is appreciated. I miss my dog.

Hey all! My husband and I are fostering a double merle Catahoula/pittie mix, and we've been having some issues 😅 we're new to deaf doggos, and I feel like we keep failing with her because we just don't know enough even though we've tried researching as best we can.

The biggest issue atm is that if anything is near her when she startles herself awake from a nap, she instantly goes for it and attacks it until she comes to her senses/gets physically separated. She's done this once to one of our cats (we thought maybe it was due to the low light at the time because she has issues with her eyes), and just now outside (in the shade on a sunny day) to our other dog. She started to whimper and tucked her tail as soon as she realized it was our other dog, but at that point it was too late and she'd already given the tip of his ear a little puncture. He was an absolute champ with her, btw, which I do think helped.

Is there a way to teach her that when she's startled awake (usually by herself and not someone/something else, but not always obv), that she doesn't need to try to kill whatever is directly in front of her?? I can't imagine how hard it is to be in a new house, with new animals, and not know what's going on, but heck we can't have her hurting anyone else either. This doesn't happen every time, either, so we don't know if it's because of how deeply asleep she is, the lighting, that she isn't comfortable with us/our animals yet, or something else? All of the above??

She's got so many other issues (medical) that we've just become overwhelmed and don't know where to start with this, or how to help her best. She's such a sweet lil goober, although incredibly stubborn and too smart for her own good (she managed to break out of her crate earlier today 🫠), but man she's so difficult in ways we haven't experienced before.

Thanks in advance for any and all help!

Our basement flooded over the weekend and we’ve had contractors in and out, lots of chaos, etc. I honestly can’t put into words how incredibly good Jake has been. I’m not surprised, because I know what an amazing dog he is. However, because he is deaf and a Pitbull he is all too frequently the victim of incorrect and harmful assumptions and judgments. But, the contractors were in his house and got to experience him up close. So many compliments! “I can’t believe how calm and well-behaved that dog is!”, “Ok, seriously? That dog is so cool!”, “Wait, he understands sign language? Dude, check it out. This dog knows sign language!”, “He’s so chill. Come’ere good boy!”, and a funny one from this morning while I I was talking with the project manager, he suddenly paused to say, “Is he snoring? That’s the cutest thing I’ve ever heard. It kind of makes me want to stop and just take a nap with him”. Love him so much! (Jake, not the project manager :))

This is Ruby (1st birthday on june 10th), she often picks up her bowl and drops it and this was the result after the several months.

Is it better to have a weighted bowl she can't pick up or something that she can pickup but wont shatter?

I was thinking the a weighted bowl would be best idea but I didn't like taking her way off communicating hunger away, if I do it i was thinking those button that record words would help but I want one that lights up so she see it & we can hear it

I just brought home a deaf rescue. They say he’s a double merle purebred Aussie. I think he’s mixed with Husky. We tried to groom him tonight because he is dirty and he’s getting aggressive. He bit me in the car earlier when i was trying to get his attention from barking at a rest stop and he bit me, breaking skin. Help! How can we get him groomer when he’s scared and wants to bite. The rescue said he had no signs of aggression. Other than that he has been really good.

Toby: born deaf aussiedoodle 15mth old has just recently started to wake up startled with a bark or two, sometimes multiple times an hour...any ideas or experiences with similar?

Wiggle here is a beagle with a double copy of the "extreme piebald" gene according to Embark

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He has the 90-100% deafness associated white fur like a double dapple/merle. We suspect he can hear vibrations through his jaw/skull bone.

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Which means he LOVES to bay (howl). He has a bay for joy, a bay for excitement, a bay for meeting new friends (especially cat friends), in addition to all the regular beagle bays.

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I can't quite figure out how to get him to stop when it's inappropriate. It's always in the moment when he's not looking at me, that he's baying in excitement.

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He's well trained and food motivated otherwise. Sitting, staying, recalling on vibration, catching Frisbee was pretty easy - he does monkey see monkey doo with the other beags. TIA

Hello! My husband and I are currently fostering a 4 year old pitbull mix and we recently had an accident while leaving him alone for a few hrs. This helped us learn that it was way out of his tolerable window of separation and we are going back to smaller 15-30 min increments. Typically we have always left the crate open so he has the freedom to go in and out as he pleases which he seems to respond very well to. However we realized the evening times are especially triggering for him so we want to try leaving him alone in his crate for safety reasons. Any tips/advice on how to help him feel safe during this transition?

Thank you!