They are all beauties and look happy together. How do you communicate with the deaf dogs? We're they born deaf? Sorry for the questions, but I am interested.
No problem! I live to educate people about deafies
I hate to disillusion you but your dog pays very little attention to your vice. Dogs are very visual creatures... most of the time, when you give a command, they're reading your body language and expression... your voice is only the last thing they pay attention to. It takes alot of training to get a dog to listen to a voice-only command, and even more training for you to not be giving subtle, silent cues. Very few everyday dog owners ever achieve that. Dogs communicate mainly through body language both with eachother and with us.
Now, that being said, obviously there are verbal cues needed like recall, and the dogs' name (which is a command to pay attention to the human) and and that's where having a deafie is different and can be challenging. My Doxies aren't allowed off leash in unfenced areas, however, my mom's deaf terrier is as she's been trained to check in every few seconds. In the house a stomping foot or a flicking light is enough to get their attention.
My deafies (including the cat) are trained with hand signals. And in the case of Mouse, who doesn't see well either, objects. They are clicker trained using a little LED keychain light. I have several videos of my deaf dogs doing tricks and such in the video section of this forum, if you're interested enough to look them up. I haven't figured out how to copy and paste on my phone yet so you'll have to look up the vids as I cant post links without knowing how to copy and paste lol or you can look up my YouTube channel. My username is Saranscout
Thanks for the interest!