Challenge: a hearing-impaired dog Do you care for a deaf dog? Have you ever had the opportunity to work with a deaf dog? I had not—until Blanca. In 2013, my friend Milena rescued a large, but skeletal, dog from an abandoned gas station and contacted me for some training help. The dog delivered 10 puppies the day after her rescue, …
How did that happen? One day, I woke up and my Labrador, Zam, was old. It happened that quickly. Suddenly, his eyesight and hearing weren’t that great anymore. Overnight, the old man developed a repertoire of newfound naughtiness: barking, begging for food, and demanding attention whenever he wanted it, thank you very much. He couldn’t see or hear very well, …
