Deaf Girl Teaches Hearing Impaired Puppy Sign Language
PASADENA, Cala. (CBS4) - Ten-year-old Julia is teaching her 7-month-old puppy Walter a whole new way to communicate with sign language.
Both Julia and Walter, who met back in January, were born deaf.
"They're the same," Julia's mom, Chrissy, said in a video recently posted on Pasadena Humane Society & SPCA's Facebook page. "She's learned a whole other kind of love."
So how is the training going?
"It seems like he's picking it up," Jamie Holeman, community relations associate at Pasadena Humane Society & SPCA, told CBS News.
The terrier-chihuahua mix has learned how to sit, ask for food, and even his own name.
Holeman says Walter, the last of his litter to get adopted, was initially overlooked by people. The shelter never gave up hope, though. And now, luckily, Julia is with a dog just like here.
"When I first held Julia, since she couldn't really hear, she would smell my neck," her mom said. "And when I first held Walter he did almost the same exact thing. I remember just looking at him, and I knew that he was meant to be ours."
