I have 2 dogs - one is shepherd/dingo mixed and other is golden retriever/yellow lab mixed, and I have been taking them to training school for 6 weeks, and been training them to become a Hearing dogs. Copper, my oldest, the shepherd/dingo mixed is 10 years old, and he has helped me a lot for the past 8 years. He does bark, alert me when cries, ringers, or alarms goes off...
We recently adopted Frankie, he is only 8 months old, and still has a lot of training for him, but he is getting there. Retriever/Labs are very smart dogs. Blind people always get Retriever/Labs. Frankie barks at people, and he bark at the phone when it ring. It's good thing... Still has a lot of trainings.
They can be anyone's best friend, and they are my best friend for life, and I always take them EVERYWHERE. I have the speical certification for Copper and Frankie, they are Hospital's Pet and Nursing Home Pet too. They calls me to bring my dogs to them and my dogs does make every smile when they see them. Last week I took Frankie to Children's Hospital in Morgantown, and the little girl was dying from cancer, and she fell in love with Frankie. Sadly this past Friday, she passed away...
