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I had a big scare this afternoon. Occasionally we dog sit for a few days a teeny tiny chiuaua dog. I normally can't stand this breed dog because they are so nervous. I hate all of the shaking and whining and snapping at the least little thing.

However this little dog is deaf and I guess because of that is perfectly calm. No shaking or acting like an idiot. It is a very loving dog and interstingly enough responds to hand signals since it cannot hear.

My wife brought this little dog home to stay with us for a few days as it is mistreated somewhat by a member of it's family.

Today I let it outside with Elvis (one of our dogs) to use the bathroom. Elvis never leaves our front yard and does not go near the street. This little deaf dog always just stays around Elvis and after being out side for a couple of miniutes I will go to the door and let them back in.

Today I got distracted and left them out for probably 5 minutes instead of a couple. When I went to let them in only Elvis was at the door. I have been so busy I wasn't even sure I had let the deaf dog out with Elvis but thought I had. When I couldn't find her in the house I was sure I had.

The problem with a deaf do is that you cannot call them. LOL!!! I searched all in our front yard and in the extensive shrubbery across the front and one side. My wife and I then started walking down opposite directions of our street and searched the neighborhood. This was very scary because being deaf she could easily just step out in front of a car.

After walking and driving, looking in neighbors yards we had just about decided that someone had grabbed her out of our yard. I was standing in our driveway scanning our neighbors back yard and as far as I could see when I caught a glimpse of white way over in a back yard a street over (thank heavens those neighbors had no fences or chain link fences so I could see over three yards). Sure enough this little teeny tiny deaf dog had somehow managed to go around chain link fences or under them and was in that yard on the next street. We were able to get her and bring her home.

I could not even imagine having to tell the little five year old girl who loves her that I had lost her. Thank the Lord we found her!

The ironic thing is that she is a very obedient dog and if she had her hearing would have come when we called for her without a doubt. It is kind of hard to see hand signals from hundreds of feet away and through trees and fences!

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

YOU'VE REALLY SEEN ELVIS???????








Talk about hijacking a thread!!!

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I can imagine what you were feeling. I thought I had lost my wife's cat one time. Incidentally you may have unlocked the key to tolerating those little yapping breeds...one of you needs to be deaf :)

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OK, now I want the dog! Is she up for adoption?

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I realize this is a dog thread but my wife is deaf and I have tons of stories that happen to us because she can't hear. It seems that every hotel room we stay at I always get locked out of the room somehow and she doesn't know I am knocking. She has a phone now and gets text messages so things are a little better.

:largehalo

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Although I intensely dislike ankle biters, I am glad you found this dog.

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I am glad you found the little doggy. :)

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Even though we are "over dogged" with two many of our own we have tried to get them to give us this little dog for more than a year now. Technically it belongs to the live in boyfriend of my daughters friend and he refuses to get rid of it but yet locks it in closets and an unfinished basement for hours on end by itself.

It is a very smart and loving dog. I fear for it's future if / when the girl we know breaks up with the guy that is the owner. We will probably never see it again.

When my wife does go to where it lives it gets so excited when it sees her. That little dog knows that it is going to get a lot of attention and bre spoiled.

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LOL!!!!! How does she know she has a text message? Does the phone vibrate?

When I was about 12 I spent the night at a schoolmates house who lived in a duplex above his cousins. The cousins dad was deaf and when his children got made at him they would stand behind his chair and cuss him out. He was oblivious to it of course. LOL.

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Exactly! It is so weird to be around this dog and she has none of the nervousness and yapping a hearing dog of her breed would have.