Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-01
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Gives Ears To
The Deaf

--HE invaluable assistance that Seeing Eye dogs
| given thousands of blind persons throughout the
] world is well known. But there many other
human problems which dogs render noble services and
among a dog that aids deaf people, This dog is
known the Hearing Ear dog
O finest of Hearing Ear dogs is Jokko, n
young German shepherd owned by two elderly deaf
women the Misses Geneveve and Adelaide Cains, sisters
The Misses Calkins live by themselves old
brownstone mansion except for Jokko who
always with them Jokko having been especially trained
hearing-ear" for deaf people performs full round
duties every day in the great Calkins house.
Whereas the Seeng-Eye dog performs host of
intelligence and spec111c trimming
including leading its master through crowded street
pausng the slightest sign of danger the
job of the HearingEsr dog il no simpler and requires
Just much vigilance.
For instance when the telephone rings, Jokko begins
to bark for whichever sister happens to
the phone There two phones upstairs
and down Thus barking, he leads one of the women
the nearest instrument
If the front doorbel rings Jokko banks
back and forth to the front door If is the back door
where he might hear either tradesmans ring or
neighbours soft knock he indicates the presence of
caller in the same manner
Jokko also does many other things that daily prove
his worth intelligence and occasion he probably
saved his mistresses' lives
The ladies sleep uptars Iol1o reposes with one
Gear open sheepsIin rug at the foot of their old
spool bedseads The door of the bedroom is
always ajar that he wander around the house
during the night in he hears any strange noises
one night after a slight earthquake set the house
auuver and awakened the sisters momentarily Jokko
went proving around other His nostrils
picked up strange odor coming from the basement and
il parts of the house 1t was
escaping gas. The smell strange 10 Jokko but he
have sensed that it dangerous because he
Immediately began to bark and upstairs to the bedroom
The Cakins sisters who, in spite Of their deafness.
able to the banks of their dog got up but
they could nothing aniss. They looked around
while Jokko continued to bark, but not being
able smell the practically odoress natural of Cali
forpa, they Ment hack To bed
But Ioto contfnupdr to run up the bedroom
barking shifting the but still the sisters couldn't
understand what he trying 10 tell them
The Calkins house is heated by gas furnace in
the basement Galvanized metal fues carry the heat
20 al parts OF the house and in the bedrooms the out
heat open grill into the wall Il
Fall the weather the warmest OF the
wear SO the furnace was not in operation But the dog
they noticed stopped before this grill each time he
the They finally gathered from this that
there something wrong down in the basement
They afraid TO make investigation in the
basement IN the middle OF the night SO they phoned
obuging neghbor John Collier who had trained the
and who still took great interest Jokos duties
Collier dressed hurriedly and came oyer, and with
fashght he entered the basement The dog before
him barking all the while led Collier right up the
door Of the furnace. Collier opened and threw the
light inside
search Of few moments revealed that gas pipe
leading to the bed Of the furnace had been broken
Joint probably 10y the earth shock hundreds
feet Of gas were escaping and being carried through the
nues TO all parts OF the house Emergency repairmen
who called to fix the broken pipe that
enough gas might have collected the bedroom to
asphyNatcd the women.
Jof<o also keeps eye his mstresses safety by
standing beside them at the door until strange callers
depart by staying continually when there is
stranger IN the house. Jolto trusts until ne
gets them
The dog also barks when he hears the evening paper
thrown against the front steps when the grocery boy
leaves the groceries and when the miman the milk
Collier, with much patience trained Jokko seven
months in the Calkins mansion by urging him
noises either strange familiar by making him lead
)one the other Of the sisters TO where the
JokSos sensing Of something wrong by smelling gas,
no rfuf rt gI1ftayo
however. because Collier taught him 20 bark at
different smells The gas incident given Collier new,
idea FOR dog-traiung curriculum Smelling Nose dog
perhaps useful detecting poisonous gas in coal mines