I've had and taken care of dogs of many breeds since I was a child. I have fostered dogs for the rescue I volunteer with and have trained and nursed dogs back to health for them. I have also trained obedience, trick training and agility with my personal dogs. we have had three special needs dogs that I trained. My deaf/vision impaired sheltie I trained with hand signals. She was a trick dog and therapy dog. I trained my son's blind/deaf sheltie using touch commands and I now own a vision and hearing-impaired sheltie puppy that I am training with both.