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Bill Collins Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 26 May 2005 Location: England Posts: 11643
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| Posted: 16 July 2026 at 6:35am | IP Logged | 1
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Eric, i found that lot's of eye contact and smiles along with the hand gestures help, which are visual clues you probably used unthinking when she could hear along with plenty of patience. Even old dog's are quick learners and soon adapt. Case in point...we went on holiday with our first deaf dog not long after her blind companion died. On the first day she soon mapped out the floor layout of the chalet, the next day we had to move into the adjoining chalet as the boiler broke, it was exactly the same layout but a mirror image, initially she went up the corner where the tv was as that's whe the door had been, but within a couple oh hours she'd got it all worked out. Adding new hand gestures for certain things will help, and as i said they learn fast and adapt.
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Larry Gil Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 09 November 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 788
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| Posted: 16 July 2026 at 9:09pm | IP Logged | 2
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Do you still have your cat , JB.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 16 July 2026 at 9:22pm | IP Logged | 3
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Yup.
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Brian Miller Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 28 July 2004 Location: United States Posts: 32124
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| Posted: 19 July 2026 at 2:17am | IP Logged | 4
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Our Oliver is deathly afraid of the fireworks. This year they started at the end of June and only just stopped 2 nights ago. ***** Correction. These assholes are still shooting fireworks this very night.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 19 July 2026 at 2:46am | IP Logged | 5
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Same here.
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Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member

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| Posted: 20 July 2026 at 12:14am | IP Logged | 6
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Brian Miller wrote:
| Correction. These assholes are still shooting fireworks this very night. |
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Good grief! Why would anyone still be doing that? I can see the Washington Monument from my apartment, and they're not even shooting fireworks here any more.
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Bill Collins Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 26 May 2005 Location: England Posts: 11643
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| Posted: 20 July 2026 at 6:32am | IP Logged | 7
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Try living in England, i can guarantee from October to New Year we will be suffering them on a nightly basis. They say times are hard, but plenty seem to have money to burn.
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