Are deaf Danes always afraid because they can hear?
This is another one of those myths that just won’t die. This is absolutely untrue. They have no idea they are any different than any other dog. They have always been deaf and don’t know that there is any other way to be. They assume all dogs, people, and animals are just like them, though they may eventually learn that there are some dogs who seem to react to stuff they don’t catch. They are not scared because to them there is nothing unusual or scary about how they are. A dog can tell more about the world around them with their nose than we can with all 5 of our senses. Being deaf does not affect them much at all. Do you walk around all the time scared because you don’t have x-ray vision? Of course not. Unless you’re a big comic book reader, you probably never even think about not having x-ray vision. Same for a deaf dog and sound. It simply is not part of the world as they know it.
