Dogs For The Deaf

Dogs for the Deaf sounds like a winning organisation. The group rescues dogs from animal shelters and trains them to alert their people to "fire/smoke alarm, telephone, door knock, doorbell, oven timer, alarm clock, and name call. A dog may be trained for an eighth sound, the baby cry." According to their web site, "more than 1½ million of the 23 million deaf or hard of hearing individuals in the United States and Canada could benefit from a Hearing Dog." To read more about this organisation, see their website.