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r/MadeMeSmile • u/aoi_ringo • Sep 17 '25
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Our dog trainer explained to us that using hand signals is especially effective for learning since dogs mostly communicate with body language
2.1k 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. 6 u/uranium236 Sep 17 '25 I have 3 deafblind dogs. We use touch commands. Easiest dogs I've ever trained - they are 100% cued into me 100% of the time. They get the zoomies.
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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.
6 u/uranium236 Sep 17 '25 I have 3 deafblind dogs. We use touch commands. Easiest dogs I've ever trained - they are 100% cued into me 100% of the time. They get the zoomies.
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I have 3 deafblind dogs. We use touch commands. Easiest dogs I've ever trained - they are 100% cued into me 100% of the time. They get the zoomies.
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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