Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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Help! I need a non-audible marker that's visible, fast, maybe bright-colored and not too small (for two aging dogs with old ears as well as old eyes -- plus an unimpaired dog).
I thought of an extravagant hand signal, but my hands are already being used to command their most-used behaviors (such as both hands making "gimme" motions to mean "come here").
I though maybe somehow make one finger colored with a glove finger, in a color dogs see well? But again, my hands are already so much in use .... I don't want to confuse the commands they have learned so well.
I thought about this all evening Sunday and didn't come up with anything smart.
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Best I can come up with - a collar that has a light with a remote activator on it, so they can see the flash illuminate the area around them. Anything else and you're stuck with them looking at you, but this should work as long as they're not staring straight UP.
ETA: thought of this after thinking of the remote flash module that some photographers use, to give you an idea.
one lady in my agility class had a deaf dog. She had try many thing. Hand movement, a color scarf, a light flash (small flash light).
She ended with the vibrating collar as that was the only thing she found that the dog did not have to look at her to sense the marker.
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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Hi, Kristin,
That was what the hearing-impaired-dog sites came up with.
But I don't think it would be very visible in the sunlight, and also, they both wear LB LED devices on their collars so they are visible at night, so light on their collar isn't a new thing.
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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Quote: Ariane Gauthier
one lady in my agility class had a deaf dog. She had try many thing. Hand movement, a color scarf, a light flash (small flash light).
She ended with the vibrating collar as that was the only thing she found that the dog did not have to look at her to sense the marker.
Yes, that worked fine. When it was one deaf dog.
It's never going to work for two. Not with my coordination. Even with one at a time, it took me ages to be somewhat fluid with using it just to mean "look at me," never mind as a well-timed marker.
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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Guess what's really funny? I ordered two sets, and then later I noticed that there were four in each, so I would have EIGHT of them!
Well, today I rec'd the "this has shipped" email, and realized that a set of them is FORTY, not FOUR!
I will have EIGHTY!
I went to the link again to read the customer reviews, and they do sound pretty good .... many said things like "Cheaply made, but so inexpensive that it doesn't matter. Almost all of them work fine, and they light up very well."
So I'm looking forward even more to playing around with them, charging the mark in a room with dim lighting .... with this almost unlimited supply, this will work out in one way or another.
I envision the neighbors calling the police to capture the crazy lady dancing around the neighborhood with her fingers and toes all lit up.
So Cal! :rolleyes: :wink:
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