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Deaf puppy learns sign language

A deaf puppy has learned to communicate with her owner using sign language.

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Snowy the deaf puppy has a new leash of life after learning sign language - aged just four months.
Snowy was handed in to an animal charity because her owners could not cope with having a deaf dog.
However, within just three weeks of training, the four-month-old Jack Russell can sit, stay and walk, by responding to hand gestures.
The pet has learned a vocabulary of different commands including, sit, stop, lie down, roll over, come back and walk on.
Staff at the Dogs Trust Salisbury in Newton Tony, Wilts, hope that they will now be able to find Snowy a home because of her newly-acquired obedience.
Her trainer, Leslie Carley, described Snowy as "the brightest spark" among the animals at the center.
Mrs Carley, a support relations officer, said: "Snowy is very bright and learned remarkably quickly, so she's picked up half a dozen commands already.
"When she first came in she didn't have a clue what was going on and would chase around causing trouble.
"But she has these amazing big soft eyes that notice every movement and function better without hearing so she's picked up the sign language amazingly quickly.
"It's incredibly that she's only four months old - but I suppose it's easy to teach a young dog new tricks."
The 3kg puppy was born into a litter of six and then sold to new owners who gave her back when they realised she was deaf.
She became shy and withdrawn after being passed from home to home and ignored by her brothers and sisters in the litter and was eventually taken to the charity.
She is expected to learn several more commands in the coming weeks which will give her a full vocabulary of dog terms.
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Snowy's sign language:
Sit - move hand from side and bring it up towards chin
Good girl - thumbs up and smile
Stop - Extend arm forwards and show palm of hand
Down - Point to the floor then flatten hand and move downwards parallel to the ground
Come back - wave hands in the air to get attention then crouch down and pat legs
Roll - lie down then bring hand over head and round shoulder
Walk - rotate fists
Greet - hold out hand palm facing up
Naughty - point finger at dog
Food - move fingers to mouth and pout
Relax and be quiet - put index finger to lips
Go potty - walk fingers towards the garden
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The Bow and Mallow Camo operates just like a conventional bow and arrow, except that no arrows are included — only safe, soft mini marshmallows. Its nifty design converts the power created by the bowstring into compressed air pressure — strong enough to launch a mini marshmallow up to 30 feet!
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Ottawa boy's invisible invention warns birds about windows

Eighth grader Charlie Sobcov wants to stop birds from dying in collisions with windows, but he doesn't want to ruin anybody's view.
For his latest school science fair project he has invented painted, plastic decals that can be placed — discreetly — right in the middle of a window pane.
"This paint is a color that birds can see but humans can't," he said Wednesday on CBC Radio's All in a Day. "It's like putting a big stop sign in the middle of the window."
The color is ultraviolet, beyond the range of colors visible to humans. That means the "stop sign" lets birds know the window is solid, but is nearly invisible to humans.
Similar flying falcon-shaped decals already exist on the windows of some buildings, but unlike Sobcov's, they are black and can obstruct part of the window.
Sobcov, who studies at the Turnbull School, a private school in Ottawa, said he first fell in love with birds while on a trip with his parents to Costa Rica four years ago. He learned that bird populations were decreasing around the world, and that many scientists were blaming global warming.
He later read that about 500 million birds a year in Mexico, the U.S. and Canada were dying as a result of crashing into windows. Many deadly bird collision are with the windows of skyscrapers along their migratory paths.
Sobcov resolved to help save the lives of some of those birds.
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A 72-year-old man with eyebrows so long he brushed them each morning raised $1,600 for charity from people who paid to take turns trimming his out-of-control brows. Some of the wiry hairs shorn from Si Burgher’s shaggy eyebrows measured more than three inches long because the former jeweler’s brows had never been trimmed. Burgher’s eyebrows were so long he used to brush them before leaving the house. But he agreed to have the overgrown brows tamed last week by members of the Bloomfield Rotary Club to raise money for a polio eradication campaign.
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