Hearing ear dog Training

[whatdidyousay!]

yes, you are very right - black dog syndrome is a problem in shelters and rescues - here's a site to check to see what one group is trying to do about that: What We Do

folks have thought that my Black Lab was a Rottie and been afraid of him, like you with your Poodle, whatdidyousay!

and also yup, wolf-dog hybrids are also on that list but I think less and less people have them as the issues with them <through no fault of the hybrid> are more discussed; also they can be difficult to find, may not "present" well to a potential adopter and for the same cost you can get find more actual dogs available.

People at my condo where afraid of Finlay and poor Finlay wanted everyone to like him! The same people that where are afraid of my black poodle, like my new while poodle terrier mix. I wanted to get a black dog but the one I saw where street dogs and had too many issues.
One of my boyfriend was bitten by a wolf dog. We where walking on the sidewalk and a little old lady had dog on 6 foot leash , the dog leap out at my boyfriend and bite him in the thigh! I found out the dog was a wolf dog and also a reject police dog! The police gave the dog to the lady as she was getting robbed a lot! WTF where the cops thinking !! The lady was only to walk the dog on a 4 foot leash ! We had a place in my state called 'Wolf Hollow' and wolves are raised there. I told the guy that started the place about my boyfriend and he said wolf dog and not safe to have because the wolf is powerful animal and afraid of people but the dog is not afraid not of people and is was the dog part that attacked my boyfriend , not the wolf.
And this made people think wolves will attacked people.

 

[whatdidyousay!]

Well - I figured if I trained it myself, then I would not be able to use it as a hearing dog in public, so I was just thinking of at home. My mother suggested either a beagle or a schnauzer.

I would not use a beagle, they're great dogs but they have a one track mind!
We had a beagle and all it wanted to was hunt all day!!

 

[somedeafdudefromPNW]

Well - I figured if I trained it myself, then I would not be able to use it as a hearing dog in public, so I was just thinking of at home. My mother suggested either a beagle or a schnauzer.

Er, no. You do not want a dog that is bred to find a game by its lonesome: Scenthounds (Foxhounds, Beagles, Coonhounds, Bloodhounds), Sighthounds (Afghans, Salukis, Greyhounds), Asian hunting spitzes (Shiba Inus and Jindos), Nordic bark-pointers (Karelian Bear Dogs, Finnish Spitzes, Elkhounds) and terriers are bred to be independent and stubborn.

Rule of thumb: if the dog is bred to herd, for police work or as a retriever, they are highly biddable.

Try one of these: The Intelligence of Dogs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mind you, the list above is not an indication of intelligence, but rather an indication of how readily they will listen to their owners: it's called biddability. I grew up with hunting dogs, they are more intelligent than most of the biddable dogs, but they're too independent to be used as a service dog.

 

[whatdidyousay!]

Has anyone got a hearing cat? I am not a dog person, they are ok but a cat I could live with.

I wanted a get a 'hearing cat' too!! I saw a cat at a cat shelter that I really liked but the people that worked there freaked out when they find out I was not going to have 2 cats to keep one another company!!
We have a 'Yankee Home Coming' at my city every year and the cat shelter has a table set up down town. There where 2 women at the table and I asked them if they ever heard of 'hearing cats' One of the woman looked at me and said " All of our cats can hear!" The other woman and I could not help but LOL!! The second woman knew what I meant and said she heard of 'hearing
cats' but she did not know how to get one. I had to laugh when I saw your comment! I thought great I am not the only person that wanted a 'hearing cat'! There is circus uses cats to do tricks.