Session 6 of the Seminar Blind Deaf and Amazing - on living with and training deaf, blind and deaf blind dogs.
Session presenters:
Erin Marion (lead), USA
Kathy Busam, USA
Miriam Scheinblum, USA
The session is about 2 hours long. You'll receive the link to recording of the full session including presentation, videos, discussion, questions and answers. You'll be able to watch and refer back to the session as many times as you'd like.
Session 6 will cover:
- Introduction
- Living with a deaf or deaf blind dog at home
- Common challenges with day to day life at home and how to overcome them
- Deaf and/or blind dog outside
- Deaf and blind dogs socialisation and building their confidence- Enrichment activities for deaf and blind dogs both at home and outside
- Sensory exploration
- Playing with deaf blind dogs
- Deaf and blind dogs and other dogs- at home and outside
- Training deaf, blind or deaf blind dog - dog trainer’s perspective
- What every deaf and blind owner needs to know when looking for training opportunities.
- Common training challenges and how to overcome them
- Q&A
Session 6: Living with deaf and blind dogs
You are in for a real treat with this session! It's fun, lively, very practical and super informative. It will be of a huge interest to anyone who is living with or working with deaf and blind dogs- from owners to dog trainers. The panel members each bring their insight, challenges and solutions into a well-structured and insightful discussion. The session is centred around a presentation with lots of videos, great practical ideas and solutions.
Erin, who is leading this session, is an inspirational lady and a highly regarded professional dog trainer who is specialising on training deaf, blind and deaf blind dogs. She offers online and face to face sessions to clients worldwide and has a very informative and though provoking blog on her website alongside with lots of other useful resources: www.DowntoEarthDogLady.com
