Rosie is a deaf pit-bull mix who has spent the past three months in an animal shelter, waiting for a new owner.
Cindy Koch, who also happens to be deaf, recently visited the Central Nebraska Humane Society and knew straight away that Rosie was the dog for her.
When Rosie first arrived at the society, staff couldn’t realise why she wouldn’t respond until shelter volunteer Tracy Pfeifle realised she couldn’t hear them and set out to teach her sign language.
“Rosie was pretty scared at first. I don’t think she had a good first four years of her life,” Tracy said in an interview with New York Daily News.
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However, after learning signs, including a thumbs-up for “good girl,” Pfeifle says the dog transformed into a totally different animal.
Despite her progress, she still needed a new owner and Cindy decided Rosie was the perfect dog for her: “Because I’m deaf, I want to communicate with her through signing, teach her signing”.
