and broke her spine. We took her to
the vet and she had to be put down.
After examining her, the vet came
over and gave us the news.
“It must have been strange for
your family living with a dog that
was deaf,” he said.
“What?”
“You didn’t know your dog was
deaf?”
“No, we thought it was stupid.”
That’s when we realized that
their whole lives the one dog had
been telling the other dog what to
do somehow. The smart, hearing
one was helping the dumb, deaf
one.