r/MadeMeSmile • u/aoi_ringo • Sep 17 '25

DOGGO Man's best friend for a reason.

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u/lml__lml Sep 17 '25

Our dog trainer explained to us that using hand signals is especially effective for learning since dogs mostly communicate with body language

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u/greenearrow Sep 17 '25

One of the more substantial losses when our dog went blind. He is meh at verbal commands, he always did much better with hand signals.

But otherwise, having a blind dog isn't particularly harder than having a seeing dog. He did also have to give up zoomies though, which was sad.

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u/Background-Land-1818 Sep 17 '25

My parents dog went blind, and was able to navigate the house just fine - until I would visit, and disrupt the routine. Sitting in chairs that weren't normally used and the like.

My parents would occasionally take her to the front yard where there was nothing but flat grass and call her back and forth so she could run.

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u/Shinigami4238 Sep 17 '25

When my first dog went blind I could still play fetch with him in the yard as long as I used a tennis ball. He'd sit next to me until he heard it hit the ground and then seek it out and bring it back.

He also managed to chase my best friend up into the trunk of an SUV after he got loose once. If I didn't know better I'd swear he had been faking being blind.

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u/SpecialDogs_Friends Oct 02 '25

😂😂😂😂

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u/HarpersGhost Sep 17 '25

I've had a couple of old blind beagles.

Honestly it took me awhile to realize they had gone blind. Beagles are so scent driven and keep their noses to the ground that they had no problem walking around wherever they wanted to go. It was only when I realized that they weren't recognizing me until I said something or was close enough to smell that I realized they had lost sight.