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Do Deafies Need Hearing Dogs?
Summary: Why do we need hearing dogs for?
These quotes I showed in the video:
“Learning to live with deafness can be a devastating experience.”
“Deafness is an invisible disability and can lead to isolation and loneliness as people withdraw, finding it increasingly hard to communicate.”
You can find these quotes and more, click this Hearing Dogs for Deaf People.
Here’s this article regarding the boy that sued the school about hearing dog I mentioned in the video, you can find the article, click this.
And finally, my friend Kevin, a blogger called Key Lime Boy wrote an interesting post about Hearing Dogs For The Deaf? (click on the title directly to his post).
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Julie B,
That was regarding the comparison between the fees for hearing dog and the costs for techology that people were stating it is cheaper to own a hearing dog or the other way around.
So therefore it is GREAT to have dogs, just don’t need the dogs to be “hearing dogs.”
There is the difference between a hearing dog and a dog.
I have pets of my own, thank you very much.
-SG
Julie B,
If you own a hearing dog, that is most likely you will unable to adopt other pet in the same household.
So if you plan to adopt just a dog, can easily adopt more pets if you wish.
Here’s the information:
Some programs will also require that you have no other dog in the house (other dogs can interfere with the hearing dog’s work), some have requirements for a fenced yard, and some prefer that you live alone or with another person who has a hearing loss.
Click this link for more information
-SG
When I was at CSUN, I had a deaf roommate who had a hearing dog. By Deaf definitions, the woman was really Hard of Hearing because she depended heavily on hearing and speaking. She did not have technology for the deaf. But she left the dog at home all day!!!
I have nothing against deaf people having hearing dogs. I just don’t like dogs and don’t see the point in having a hearing dog for myself. I lived alone for a while, got a cat but the cat is a companion not a hearing cat. I do fine with technology for the deaf.
I also do not like the quotes that are from the hearing dogs’ web site. Learning to live with deafness is probably a devastating experience for late-deafened adults who have trouble accepting that they have become deaf. Does not apply to us who have accepted early on.
Seek Geo,
I have two dogs — one of them is a trained hearing service dog but no certificate. I opted not to get a certificate because of the cost of training and I did not plan on taking him with me to everywhere. The other one is strictly a pet.
My service dog has the sign that he’s aging — the loss of hearings and sighting — I retired him, and got signalers for the doorbell and phone.
About the ‘no other pet in the same household with a service dog’ part… Yea, I’ve heard that too but I didn’t have any problem with my dog alerting me while the other dog is around here.
The vet where I take my service dog offers discount price for the service dogs. If you have a service dog, you may want to ask the vet to see if they have a service dog program. It would be worth a try and save your $$$.
Hmm, how many deaf people realize that if their “Hearing Ear Dog” is bonafide, they can deduct all expenses for the dog from their income tax? Yes, it is true. But you have to be able to prove that the dog is a trained Hearing Ear Dog, not just a dog that somone has put a coat on and passed off as a “professional”.
Kevin M. — sorry to have to tell you this, but a cat is as good as a Hearing Ear Dog anyday. You might not want to hear it, but it is a true fact! Try it, you’ll like it!
Lantana
Hey Julie B,
Oh wow, I didn’t know that vet offers discount for service dogs, that is good to know. I will be sure to share the information with some friends of mine who have service dogs.
That’s great about you can have service dog while other dog in the house, not many programs allow that but it sounds like there shouldn’t be a problem after all having both in same household. :-)
-SG
Did I say that the vet offers a discount? It WAS NOT ME if anyone said that.
I remarked that the cost of maintaining your bonafide Hearing Ear Dog can be deducted from your INCOME TAX under “Medical”. That is all I said.
Thanks, Lantana
P.S. You need to have PROOF that your dog is a bonafide, trained, licensed, HEARING EAR DOG.
Lantana
Hi Lantana!
Actually, it was Julie B that I thanked her for the information about discount for vet that offers.
By the way, you are right about cats, some of them actually can be as good as hearing ear dog.
-SG
The post about hearing dog remind me about the time when a deaf couple was at Salt Lake City Int’l airport trying to board the plane with their hearing dog. Guess what breed their hearing dog is… Great Dane… It’s SO huge. The couple and my destination was to Tampa. But the we are not taking the direct fight so we have to take the small jet. The agent refused to board the couple and the dog because of the size of the dog. The couple was raising the hell because they don’t want to wait few hours more hours until they can board the jet that will take them to Atlanta then to Tampa. Finally, the supervisor came out and told them that they can’t take that dog on board at all because of the size until they board the jet. If the deaf people to be depend on hearing dogs then get reasonable size… Ridiculous idea of those animals.
wow! GOOD comments everyone. Sometimes, I DO think its kind of ridiculous to bring hearing dogs to a school or a university that do have devices provided. Such as Gallaudet. Or even resturants.
but hey..that person has the right to choose but a lot of caring and costs come with it.
My roommate has a hearing dog. Still it’s like having a CHILD…gotta give it attention and care. Go out and so on. Its amazing how much care it does require.
thank you all again!
scotty
Wow, that surprises me about the Great Dane, because Dogs For The Deaf is usually extremely picky about the dogs they choose. Perhaps this couple was just trying to pass their family pet along as a real, bonafide Hearing Ear Dog?? Something is fishy here. Sniff, sniff.
I know a deaf couple who had a trained Hearing Ear Dog and it was quite large, like a Sheepdog and had lots of white hair, and they got fed up with the shedding and the size of the dog and sent it back. I cannot imagine a “working dog” being a Great Dane!
Thanks for the laugh!
Lantana
I’m shocked about the Great Dane. I agree with Lantana, that something is fishy. Sounds like a pet that was “trained” by the owner. A service dog needs to be able to fit in tight spaces especially in a restaurant so it’s not causing an inconvenience to the other people and those that work there.
Seek Geo, just read your comment about thinking that all dogs like to ride in a car, he he, I wished! :) Dogs are like people, they have their own problems and fears (like thunderstorms). It’s actually very hard to qualify a dog as a service dog. 9 out of ten dogs may “wash out” during the training program for various reasons. Easily distracted by cats, develop a fear of shopping carts, etc, etc. :)
I, too, enjoy the laugh of trying to fit a Great Dane in an airplane.
I wish my response video to you, Hopefully whenever i can. Yes, I have a hearing dog that i like to keep dog companionship and walk every day that helps me lot, the reason i had it because of my seizure due to stressful situation. I would like to get another deaf dog in the future.
Hope i will be on vlog soon!
to Mia,
Does your dog alert you when you’re about to seizure?
I can imagine that some dogs do have double job for deaf/blind people, deaf/CP people, deaf/seizure people, and deaf/wheelchairbound people.
Julie
I find it very unusual for a Great Dane to be a hearing service dog. Most of the dog training agencies choice small to large dogs (such as Lab Retreiver or Golden Retreiver) but not the LARGE LARGE dogs like the Great Dane. I think that the couple choice to have a Great Dane and train it to be a hearing service on their own or through the private trainer. There’s no way for the great dane to be in a small plane. Something’s fishy.
Another question…. what about a deaf person bringing a guide dog to the job interview?
Personally, I think it would make that person look less independent and the interviewer may not want to hire him/her. Also, I think it’s ridiculous to have both an interpreter and a dog at the job interview.
Kevin M.
what do you mean by ‘both an interpreter and a dog at the job interview’? You think that deafies don’t need an interpreter at a job interview? as for bringing a service dog to the job interview, I think that it would be silly since I think that any dogs should be at home except for the service dogs for blind people and wheelchaired people.
Wow… a Great Dane?! That is definitely good laugh, thanks for sharing that with us Jarom M.! :-D
I wonder if that dog was as big as this one in the picture? Click this link. :-D
-SG
Hey Mia!
Ok sure, I look forward to your video when you get a moment. :-) I’m sorry to hear about your seizure, that’d be a good idea to explain how having a hearing dog that will help you with it.
-SG
Hey Kevin M & Julie B,
I wonder if anyone actually brought a hearing dog to the interview, it should be interesting to hear their side of stories.
And for interpreters, I usually go to interviews without one. It is everyone’s choice of preference, anyway.
-SG
Seek Geo,
Great Dane looks like Maverick on comic (I think). See this site http://www.akc.org/breeds/great_dane/index.cfm
The picture you showed us I think is Anatolian Shepherd Dog. See this site http://www.akc.org/breeds/anatolian_shepherd_dog/index.cfm
They’re big dogs! Need to use shovel to pick up after them!
I don’t mind having a dog, only for as a pet, not as the Hearing Ear Dog. :-)
I prefers to have a technology such as a light flash for doorbell, alarm, and phone ringing because I like to be independent.
Yes, there are disadvantages and advantages about dogs. Cats have excellent Hearing Ear cats as well, too.
I was a kid, my mother and stepfather had 8-9 adult dogs with 37 puppies at same time. No kidding! At that time, one of our dog has taught her litter (puppies) how to response to deaf person itself. She “trained” the puppies to be prepare for anything in handy. She knew I was deaf and always there to protect or listen for me.
#62-That’s really humorous!! :-D My late grandparent had a dog, Old English Sheep dog was not friendly in a way, but seems all right. They cut his hair from top front to keep it from drape down in sight. One time, when I hugged the dog, he bite my eyebrow and it bled a bit. Even he growled at us if tried to get HIS toy(s) out of his mouth. Go figure!!
#72-Yes, I remember the comic, “Maverick”. Maverick the dog was my favorite comic. :-) It was so hiliarous!!
I remember I watch a TV program once about training a dogs before giving away to a new home. One of a volunteer had a seizure for a few minutes, a dog sense her body and walked over to her, stay close, poke gently on her to make sure she’s all right until she “wear out” her seizure and got up. Interesting.
#21-agreed..indeed
You can’t cuddle with a flashing light :)
There’s no technology in the world that provides what another living being who really cares about you can do.
The problem of having a certified hearing dog, from my understanding, is that you can’t adopt or even save other dogs. In other words, you are to have just this hearing dog, no more! This is where I have an issue with. I am for certified hearing dog only if they are rescue dogs and that people can have more than just one dog.
Hey Katherine,
I agree that there is one bad thing about certified dogs where they can’t have more than one pet so best is to make sure if anyone can get kind of certified dog that can have more than one pet in the house.
But I don’t think there are many certified dogs out there that can have more than one pet in the house from what I understand so that makes it more difficult.
-SG
Yeah, what Nancy (#74) said. :mrgreen:
A service dog can think–a flashing light can’t.
Plus, service dogs are more portable when you move from apartment to duplex to townhouse to … you get the idea.
For people who don’t like dogs–or who don’t like to take care of dogs–then, sure, a Hearing Dog is a bad idea.
I think the idea with having only one service dog is that you don’t want to distract it. In fact, the service dog must inform his/her owner of a noise and let the owner deal with it (answer the door, etc.)–if another person takes charge, the dog will get confused.
Interesting comments.
I have profound hearing loss and had a dog who trained herself. She was not certified and I didn’t take her anywhere, because she had severe motion sickness–the only place we went was the vet. But she learned very quickly what I could hear and what I couldn’t, and would let me know when anyone was at the door or on the property. Motion sensors, things like that can malfunction. Power outages happen, but a dog is pretty reliable.
My dog just passed away and I’m lost without her. When I take my hearing aids out at night I can’t hear anything at all. You have to remove hearing aids at night, they are too uncomfortable to sleep in, and they need to dry out. When I have the hearing aids in I can hear a few sounds and with the help of speech reading I can carry on a conversation. But if someone is behind me in the store aisle, for example, and says something, like “excuse me” I can’t differentiate it from the general noise. That’s where a dog could come in very handy.
People who have service dogs should use discretion when taking them places and not abuse the priviledge. Those who take advantage of a situation, pretending their dog is a certified signal dog when it’s not, etc. are not doing the honest people any favor, but rather giving us a bad name.
I’m looking for another dog. Not only am I concerned for my safety (I live alone) but it’s lonesome as hell around here without her!
i really need a hearing dog cuz what if i am sleep when i cant hear and fell hard sleep when flashing light wont let me woke up sometime or if someone broke my door or window? they can beat me up for sure i hope that my dog need protect me… also i dont really cant afford pay doorbell flashlight, alarm time or etc. but simple i get a hearing dog and help me. also i love to communication with my dog.
I found the website while inquiring about deaf people and their trained dogs because I have a question. Just for the record I also am hard of hearing and wear hearing aids. The other day I was in my usual grocery store and here comes a lady with a Great Dane strolling down the isle. Everyone was petting the dog and talking with her. My curiosity got the best of me and I called to her when she was alone and she turned her head and came over. I asked her if she had an OK to have the dog (BIG dog) in the grocery store and she said that she had permission because she was deaf. She said that she had all the paperwork handed in to them and the managers gave her the ‘go ahead’. Personally, I don’t really see where a deaf person would benifit from having a hearing dog in this situation. I was rather uneasy because I watched her for a while and when she would open the door to the yogurt, the dog would stick his nose in. The dog did not have a cape or collar to indicate it was a working dog. Am I wrong to feel that this lady was using this as a way to get attention?