Deaf dog adopted by deaf woman

[baldguy]

[PeaceNikki]

1. sweet story, thanks for posting!

[shenmue]

2. Cool :)

[brer cat]

3. What a happy story!

and a happy dog. Thanks for posting, baldguy.

[StarryNite]

4. Awww

I love happy endings.

[tblue37]

5. Since I am severely hearing impaired, I was eager to read about

this story, but unfortunately you do not give any text info--just a video that we deafies cannot hear.

At least I could admire the precious, sweet-faced pibbie.

[baldguy]

6. I appologize. I should have realized that a news program would neglect to have the captions included

In a segment about deaf people. Chalk it up to my own ignorance & faulty assumptions.

CNN did a short piece with clips of this video, but the captions suck, and the accompanying text doesn't tell the whole story:
http://newday.blogs.cnn.com/2014/05/13/deaf-woman-finds-the-dog-of-her-dreams/

Even the original post on the NTV site isn't complete, and captions are still not included:
http://www.nebraska.tv/story/25484375/deaf-dog-finds-a-home-with-deaf-woman

The story that led me to the above video I now realize has a bit more info:
http://www.care2.com/causes/deaf-dog-who-learned-sign-language-is-adopted-by-deaf-woman.html

I hope this helps.

[tblue37]

8. Thank you! That last article was actually fairly detailed.

It also linked to the deaf dogs site, which is also nice to know about.

One of my 10 websites us called I'm Listening as Hard as I Can!. There I post articles--most humorous, a few serious--about coping with deafness in a hearing world. My (even deafer) sister is one of many readers who tell me that getting their bosses or family members to read my articles helps them to finally understand what they do, usually inadvertently, to make life so much harder for us than it needs to be.

Here is the link, if you are interested:
http://www.deafnotdumb.homestead.com/index.html

[xchrom]

7. du rec.

[tblue37]

9. It just now struck me how ironic it is that the program captioned

the deaf woman's signed words for its *hearing* viewers, but never thought that *deaf* people might be specifically drawn to a segment like this and might need captioning to understand the spoken words.

That is the exact sort of thoughtlessness that makes deaf people's lives so hard sometimes. Others don't usually mean to exclude us, but they just don't *think* because they have no direct experience of such pervasive exclusion.

[KurtNYC]

10. too cool. I'm a big fan of sign language for ALL dogs

Dogs just aren't as verbal as we think they are. Certainly no where near humans' preference for auditory communication. A human baby hears in the womb but a dog hears little until about 15 days after birth. Some never hear much at all (many dalmations for example) and they get on just fine.