Is it true deaf Danes are hard to train?
We asked Tenchi, the semi-official deaf Dane spokesdog to answer this one, but he said he had a lot of reading to catch up on and was too busy to answer silly questions like that. He said answering questions like that was the sort of thing humans were for. So here is our best answer: Absolutely not. In fact most deaf dog owners report their deaffies learn faster and more easily than their hearing counterparts . Our experience is that they learn just as easily and quickly as any other Dane. We have found that the reason most people find their deaf Danes learn more easily and faster is because visual communication is a more natural format for dogs than auditory, so it is easier for a dog to learn a hand sign than it is a spoken command. This ties in with current scientific findings that indicate dogs communicate with one another in large part with visual cues and signals. The old myths about deaf dogs being pig headed and difficult to train are just not true. The problem was with the tra
