Hello and welcome back to another episode of Talking Dogs.

I'm Graham Hall.

I'm the smartly dressed chap on television's dogs behaving very badly.

Sometimes I even wear my waistcoat

when I'm writing my books and recording these podcasts too. Standards, don't you know? Look, this is the

place where I use my close on 15 years of experience as a dog trainer to answer your questions

about your dogs. Now, I know you adore your dog. That's a given. but it doesn't mean that you won't sometimes get frustrated with some of their behaviour.

You know, you might love them, but there might be times when you don't like them, right?

That's what I'm here to help with. They don't call me the dog father for nothing.

Today, I'm going to try and answer a couple of questions I've been asked about how to communicate with dogs who are deaf.

Now I'll get to those in just a moment, but I think there are some principles behind how we communicate with our dogs that are helpful for all of us to understand first.

I think the first thing to say is there's obviously differences between dogs and

humans and how we perceive the world, but there are loads of similarities. And often, I think

it's easier to understand dogs when we look at how things are for us. Now, we communicate in all

sorts of different ways. Now, we're very verbal. Some of us more than others, you might well say.

But we all know that there's nonverbal communication as well. And anybody who's been on one of those

sort of business communication courses will know that what you communicate is often as much

what you're seeing as what you're hearing. So there are loads of stats out there about if you hear something and see it at the same

time, like the old PowerPoint thing, then it sinks in more.

So humans go on what we're hearing, what we're seeing mainly.

There can be an element of touch as well, you know, in an inappropriate way.

I mean, there are times when you might pat somebody on the back and go, yeah, I'm really sorry at the moment.

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