We're working with deaf dog owners to stop this injustice. Holly, an American Sign Language interpreter, is executive director of the California-based Deaf Dog Education Action Fund which provides education and funding to improve and save the lives of deaf dogs. You have to use hand signals a lot more. You have to flick a light or stomp your foot or sometimes go up and tap a deaf dog. You need to learn your dog's language.
Proper training is essential to making the deaf dog relationship work.
When owners don't realize their dog is deaf, they tend to think it is being stubborn when it doesn't obey. But, Holly explains, dogs learn behaviors just like a deaf person would. Holly and John share their home with three deaf canines. You have to use hand signals a lot more. You have to flick a light or stomp your foot or sometimes go up and tap a deaf dog.