How do you discipline a blind and deaf dog?
Matilda Marquardt
2025-07-06 01:21:51
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With a little extra patience, blind and deaf dogs can learn just as much as any other dog with training methods catered to their needs. Training your dog does more than just teach them how to ‘sit’ or ‘stay’. Since blind deaf dogs perceive the world using touch, smell, and taste, you’ll use these senses to communicate with them. With blind deaf dogs, you’ll be replacing verbal or visual commands with touch cues, using smelly food or treat lures to help them learn the desired behavior, then rewarding them with tasty treats for positive reinforcement. Bond with Your Dog – First things first, you’ll need to establish a bond with your dog before you start training. Also be sure to never physically punish your dog, as you don’t want them to fear your touch. Establish Touch Cues – You’ll need to do some thinking about what you want your dog to understand. Once you’ve started using these cues, be consistent with them each time. Scented Lures for Desired Behavior – Once you use your command touch cue, you’ll need to get your dog to do the desired behavior. Tasty Rewards – Have tasty food or treats at the ready and give them to your dog the moment they get into position or perform the desired command.
Roxane Bernier
2025-06-24 10:17:32
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To discipline a blind and deaf dog, work to eat is a great approach, it can be incredibly difficult to exercise a dog who is both deaf and blind so environmental enrichment is absolutely necessary to lower anxiety and tire out the dog’s brain. Don’t feed any food out of a bowl and make sure all the dog’s calories come out of toys or by hand in training. Giving a dog frozen stuffed Kongs on the mat will help build the dog’s duration on the mat. If the dog rolls the Kong off the mat, lure the dog back to the mat with the Kong.
Condition a marker, you’ve got to come up with a touch somewhere on the dog’s body to let him know he’s getting it right and that’s why he’s getting the food. Touch the dog in exactly the same way and in the same place each time, condition this marker just like you would if you were charging a clicker, touch/food, touch/food as randomly as possible.
Target train, teach the dog to touch a target with his nose, scent the target so that he can find it, this is an excellent way to lead a dog around so you don’t have to be hauling him around by his collar all the time. Training behaviors, with a dog who is both deaf and blind, lure/reward training is the way to go, lure the dog into a sit, when his butt hits the floor, touch him in his “clicker spot” to let him know he got it right, give him the treat.
Oma Stanton
2025-06-24 06:14:16
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Positive reinforcement training is based on marking and rewarding the behaviors our dogs display in hopes to see those behaviors again. A “marker cue” is a way to let our dogs know when they have done something correctly by using tactile stimulation. The best way to communicate with a dog that is deaf and blind is through tactile or touch cues. We want to use gentle “boops” when touching our dogs. We also want to make sure that we are using a reinforcer that is valuable to your dog. It’s extremely important that we teach our new marker cue in the right way. For example, if you have a deaf and blind dog that gets overstimulated around food, you may want to use treats with low potency to mark and reward for calm behavior around the more potent smell.
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