Pearl, the deaf and blind dog, plays with her best friend, Pete.
I really like this video. Not only is it cute, but it’s a great example of how dogs with physical disabilities are still capable of engage with other fully-abled dogs – and you can also see to some degree how innate play behavior is, since Pearl is still giving off entirely appropriate social signals even though she may never have been able to see well enough to observe them in other dogs. (This last is an educated guess – although I don’t know this dog’s specific hisotry, double merle dogs that are totally white are frequently born entirely blind and deaf.)
The white dog – the blind and deaf double-merle – is reflexively falling back into play-bows when she’s not sure where they other dog is. You can see that at first, Pete is a little bit unsure what’s going on (there’s some lip-licking and displacement sniffing from him) but he’s then happy to engage with Pearl when she initiates play behavior. Her behavior is very measured, for all that it’s energetic, and she’s stopping frequently and reassessing the situation and letting Pete re-engage with her.
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