Deaf fox cub picks up sign language to fit in with her owner

An abandoned deaf fox cub has been given a new lease of life after learning sign language from her ‘Doctor Dolittle’ owner. Animal lover Beth Tyler-King was particularly keen to adopt the cub as she too is deaf.

‘She couldn’t have come to a better person,’ she said. ‘I took her to vets twice and they both confirmed she couldn’t hear – she didn’t respond to anything. She has enhanced my life. I can’t imagine life without her.’

The 43-year-old has given Milly a collar to wear with a tag telling people she is deaf and uses hand signals to get her to obey basic commands. ‘To get her to sit, I put my palm out facing downwards to say “sit” and she does it. When she is being naughty, I waggle my finger at her.’

She also shares her home in Hartland, Devon, with many other injured or sick animals that Miss Tyler-King is looking after. ‘My spare room is like my intensive care room,’ she said. ‘At the moment, I have got 30 hedgehogs, five owls, seven dogs, 14 cats, five pigeons, a dove, a parrot, and a squirrel.’ She also has 12 hens and two ponies. LINK

Music Is A Visible Thing

Here's a commercial that doesn't make you laugh at all, it'll probably give you goosebumbs.

It's from Thai Television for Pantene hair care products. The story of a deaf and mute girl who learns to play the violin against all odds. Very touching. LINK, Via: Youtube

Concert for deaf people in Toronto

Rob sez, "Thought you'd want to know about the first concert for the deaf that will be held in Toronto on the 5th of March. Some of the band members that are going to play the gig are students a Ryerson University and have developed a chair filled with speakers and vibrating devices that communicate music via vibrations to the people sitting in the chair. Results apparently are amazing and deaf people say to have experienced 'the feeling of music' for the very first time in their lives."

Concert for the deaf and the hard of hearing in Toronto. LINK: Boingboing