Through A Dark Silence: Loving and Living with Your Blind and Deaf Dog

by Debbie Bauer

Whether your dog was born blind and deaf due to being a double merle, lethal white, or homozygous merle; or your dog is losing its sight and hearing due to age, disease, or progressive disability, you will find helpful information in this book! If you are a trainer, foster home, rescue, or shelter, this book will offer you information on working with the blind and deaf dogs in your care, and will provide a necessary resource for potential adopters.
An authority on living with and training blind and deaf dogs, Debbie Bauer has made an impact in dog’s lives around the world. She works as a consultant and mentor to families, shelters, rescues, trainers, foster homes, and others who find themselves working with blind and deaf dogs. Now, she brings you this first-of-its-kind, exclusive book to help you learn to communicate with and enjoy your blind and deaf dog to the fullest! Full of important tips, ideas, games and fun for you and your dog! This book is a must-have for anyone who lives with, works with, or is thinking of adopting, a dog that is both blind and deaf.

176 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 31, 2013

Reviews

[Karen-Leigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Disappointing. This book is probably a great handbook for how to train a blind puppy. First the author said she was going to say 'a lot' about dogs blind from birth which gave me the impression that sooner or later she would get to older dogs going blind and deaf....SHE NEVER DID. Nothing she wrote was going to be of any help to me so I was frustrated and disgusted that I had wasted my money. I had hoped for some small nugget to add to my knowledge and there was nothing, absolutely nothing that would apply to my dog. I just wasted a lot of time. Now, having vented I will say that it is unlikely she would have had much that would help me anyway, my dog is 15 years old and has just gone blind and deaf. She also exhibits some dementia...either than or her sense of smell has also deteriorated. She is not interested in toys, has to be hand fed since she doesn't recognize food right under her nose and I cannot give her treats to train because of digestive upsets her diet it strictly limited. I do not agree with using essential oils...a certain number of them can kill a small animal...she says nothing about which are safe and suggests lavender which is okay for dogs in tiny tiny amounts but lethal to cats. It is too late to train my dog, I just wanted to make her safe and comfortable and hoped to learn something new to help her....actually I just realized I did learn one thing that I can research elsewhere...TTouch.

[Valerie Neill]

So helpful

I love the specific examples and suggestions that are so useful. I would never have known there were so many resources for blind/deaf dogs

[Nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good guide with useful ideas for our 17-year old blind and deaf doghter.