User blog comment:Mnenyver/Jägers and Beagles/@comment-237385-20090720015840

I've been reading the book The Other End of the Leash by Patricia B. McConnell, Ph.D., in connection with the process of acquiring a service animal for my son. One of the first stories she tells (p. 5) is the results of a blinded experiment comparing the effectiveness of visual to auditory signals in six breeds of dogs, four six-and-a-half-week-old puppies from litters of each. In general, all breeds responded better to visual than acoustic signals, but the Beagles (and Miniature Schnauzers) learned the acoustic signals not at all. So I was reminded of the Jaegers' poor hearing and this essay.