ah lol, now im the opposite of you, a hearing dog experience is good and bad, good as in being your saviour not to miss out on thing we're supposed to be alerted to, like beligumsheepdogs spoke of her experience about smoke/fire alarms, yep that happens to me too. I'm a HOH more than deaf, and yet becuase of this 'slightly deaf in appearance according to the unenlightened hearies views upon me (not all their fault, just lack of experience /awareness on their own part) .
the bad part about heaing dogs is hearies doubts and pestering you from all directions its not funny, just ask Pek1 , which is classic, thought a right bloody nusience , it all seemed to boil down that hearing dog have a reputation (at present) to be jumpy and overly extroverts, so it confuses everybody.
now back to me, I for one would like to know more about effect of dogs for protection. do you train dogs for protections for hearing or deaf people?
on top of that wheres the best website to read up about it? (im lazy) i mean best as in everything like temperments matching and how to exploit certain characters of dogs to your advantages to enable their protection WHILE at same to note how to flag down threats to dog Before the dogs attacks! this bit im kind of interested in. the 'how much control you really have, that is in theory to be able to switch from hearing dog duty, to guarding and not just alerting, where i suspect many get confused with, and thinking how protective or cute.
i would add that, there is a complete lack of realistic literature on impact of hearing dogs for deaf people other than proclaiming the romantic/doggie love views and industry-building hypes.
cheers
Grum
