Stiff Knees
Well-Known Member
...and I don't just mean the selective hearing he has lived with for the last 12 years 😉. I mean properly deaf. He's not responding to voice commands and when you walk up behind him he doesn't hear you coming. He used to hear me turn on the scales to weigh out his food at mealtimes, now he doesn't even hear me call him at mealtimes. This has all seemed to come on really quite quickly, he's booked into the vets on Wednesday so they can check his ears but I don't think they'll find anything treatable, there's no bad odour, no head shaking, no gunk, just perfectly clean normal ears to the naked eye. Has anyone else any experience with a deaf dog and care to offer some advice? We're still speaking to him obvs, and also making more exaggerated facial expressions and hand gestures and he is responding well to that and we are careful not to creep up on him from behind as that startles him. He's had a lot going on just recently, with his arthritis flare up, splenic tumour, then losing Spot and I do wonder if this helps explain why he has sometimes been a bit withdrawn. I'm also prepared for the fact that there might be something sinister going on but will cross that bridge if we come to it. 🾠Thanks for reading.