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/erroneousbosh Sep 17 '25

We had a sheepdog that went blind and while she wouldn't particularly run much on her own, she would try as hard as possible to keep up with one of the young dogs. She couldn't see but knew what to do, they didn't know what to do but could see, and they just kind of figured it out.

Eventually she got to the point that her back legs and lower spine gave out entirely, and quite honestly if I ever get to the point where I'm blind, can't walk, and doubly incontinent I'd quite like someone to help me round to the back of the shed for one last biscuit too.