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deafdude1 said:
Was it actual sound you heard and not just vibrations? Wouldn't such loud barking cause the owners and the hounds themselves to go deaf? The hounds would need to bark at 140db SPL at 1 foot for you to hear them at 114db from a distance of 20 feet. I would be surprised if those dogs are really capable of barking at 140db! And if they are, this would instantly destroy the hearing of anyone not already deaf.
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My foster dad and my younger Deaf brother (both foster dad and my brother RIP 2005) and my older foster brother were all Deaf - My brother was born Deaf and so was my older foster brother - they are both genetically Deaf although I am not (hard to explain). So, there were 4 Deaf people and 3 hearing people in this family. I think my foster dad was also born Deaf, I would ask but he passed away along with my brother. My hearing foster mom and my foster hearing brother and sisters all are still hearing and can hear perfectly to this day. I did hear the dogs - if I didn't I would have not been able to hear the dogs at all when I was on the second floor. I heard it but was not sure what it was and went downstairs and asked, and my foster grandmother told me that my brother was grabbing one of the dog's ears causing the dog to bark, and that's what I heard. Foster grandmother is also hearing too. The school did not do an audiogram when I came to this foster home so I have no idea what my loss was exactly, just that it was possibly at 115+ or higher. I no longer can hear dogs now without my CI and I have not been around a basset hound in a very long time so I really don't know if I still can hear basset hounds now or not, but most likely not.
 
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