We have questioned why Ruby doesn't seem to respond to her name or voice commands. We have a dog whistle which has several pitches and when she was not watching we tried the whistle. No ear flicker or indication she heard the whistle. We are training her to respond to hand signals which is what we have trained all our dogs to do just in case their hearing got bad in old age. Ruby does take many of her cue's from Bozwell so that helps her.
I can't imagine how hard it is for a senior dog with hearing loss to adapt to a new home late in life but Ruby is doing well. The hand signals seem to be working where voice commands don't. It is sad to me that she will not know her name because of her deafness.
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