It's an adage as old as the hills. It's common sense, which unfortunately isn't as common as it needs to be.
We had Trooper for many years. Trooper would wake himself from a deep sleep and jerk his head up with a gnash of his teeth and a snarl. The poor guy must have had nightmares, I don't know, but we knew to give Trooper a wide berth when he sleeping and would take care to awaken him with a stomp on the floor, not a kiss on the face.
It's doubly true for deaf dogs. Deaf dogs sleep deeply. They are not disturbed by sounds that wake up most dogs and people. It's always a bit unnerving for me when we've had a deaf foster because they are so sound asleep you wonder if they are dead. A clap of the hands won't wake them up but a stomp on the floor usually will.
This brings me to Kismet, and why Kismet was brought back to us yesterday morning. The dog is deaf and was fast asleep, owner gets in her face and startles the dog, dog wakes up and snaps at owner's face. Owner dumps dog.
She's a sweet and loving dog from everything we've seen and from everything the now former owner said. This was user error, pure and simple, I can't hold it against the dog.
So Kismet is back with us and up for adoption from Green Dogs, with the restrictions of no kids, no cats, no careless people. She's about 15 pounds overweight, but we can take care of that fairly easily with some pasture play and food intake restriction. An adopter must commit to training a deaf dog. She's a little distrustful of new people, but had no problem with moving in here and she's been fine with all our chaos. Journey was especially happy to see her.
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She looks happy to be back!
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