My family has two dalmations. One is hearing and the other is deaf. Unfortunately, they're both gay so they're always humping each other outside... ugh!
Anyway, I've never had problem with the deaf dog. However, it has become extremely difficult to train them. I don't know exactly what to blame... but it's probably because we got both of them at the same time. We got them when they were puppies and found out that one of them was deaf a few months later when we realized that he wasn't responding to our calls. The difficult part was the training. It's difficult to train them since one is always following the other. If you try to get one dog to sit, he will look at the other and assume that he knows what he's doing so he doesn't sit. It goes the same both ways. If both are laying down and the deaf one sees the hearing one lift his ears, then the deaf one assumes that the hearing one heard something so he starts barking at the direction that the hearing one is looking. When the deaf one starts barking, then the hearing one thinks that the deaf one sees something so the hearing one starts barking too. It's hell having both of them and my parents do wish that they had only gotten one instead. Ugh!
