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Great Pyrenees Discussions / New here...anyone have a deaf Pyr?
« on: January 08, 2009, 01:46:51 pm »
Hi! I have a 3 year old Great Pyrenees named Sarge. I adopted him over the summer, his deafness was confirmed with a BAER test. He is an incredible dog, and I am in love with the Great Pyrenees now! He has been taught no manners, however, and with the stubbornness of the breed mixed in with actual (and not selective, lol) deafness I am having some trouble.
In the house he is awesome (minus counter-surfing, drooling, barking craziness
)
However I can't take him anywhere! He pulls on the leash, marks every two seconds, drool hangs to the floor and my gentle dog who will let all 5 of my kids climb all over him and pull on his fur snaps when he is not home!
For example he will not let me clip his nails. When I had him neutered the vet did them for me, but they are overdue so I called a groomer. I brought him in, he marked about 20 times, went insane, knocked the groomer over with overexcited love...ultimat ely the groomer refused to do his nails and told me to "ask your vet for a sedative and do them at home."
I would like to be able to socialize him more, but it is hard when he can't hear my basic commands or corrections or refuses to look at me for hand signals out of stubbornness. We have no dog parks or anything like that around here...but I could bring him to local parks on a leash.
I don't have a picture because I can't find the charger for my stupid camera
But I will post one soon. He is beautiful! My husband and I are so completely in love with him, we can't believe what an incredibly loving, fun and beautiful he is.
-Heather
In the house he is awesome (minus counter-surfing, drooling, barking craziness
)However I can't take him anywhere! He pulls on the leash, marks every two seconds, drool hangs to the floor and my gentle dog who will let all 5 of my kids climb all over him and pull on his fur snaps when he is not home!
For example he will not let me clip his nails. When I had him neutered the vet did them for me, but they are overdue so I called a groomer. I brought him in, he marked about 20 times, went insane, knocked the groomer over with overexcited love...ultimat ely the groomer refused to do his nails and told me to "ask your vet for a sedative and do them at home."
I would like to be able to socialize him more, but it is hard when he can't hear my basic commands or corrections or refuses to look at me for hand signals out of stubbornness. We have no dog parks or anything like that around here...but I could bring him to local parks on a leash.
I don't have a picture because I can't find the charger for my stupid camera
But I will post one soon. He is beautiful! My husband and I are so completely in love with him, we can't believe what an incredibly loving, fun and beautiful he is. -Heather