Bill Collins
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 26 May 2005
Location: England
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| Posted: 16 July 2026 at 6:35am | IP Logged | 1
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Eric, i found that lot's of eye contact and smiles along
with the hand gestures help, which are visual clues you
probably used unthinking when she could hear along with
plenty of patience. Even old dog's are quick learners and
soon adapt. Case in point...we went on holiday with our
first deaf dog not long after her blind companion died.
On the first day she soon mapped out the floor layout of
the chalet, the next day we had to move into the
adjoining chalet as the boiler broke, it was exactly the
same layout but a mirror image, initially she went up the
corner where the tv was as that's whe the door had been,
but within a couple oh hours she'd got it all worked out.
Adding new hand gestures for certain things will help,
and as i said they learn fast and adapt.
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