Meet Sazi

Meet "Anasazi Bean" or "Sazi," our two and a half year old Australian Cattle Dog. We adopted her from our local SPCA at three months of age. She is a gorgeous pup but may have been abandoned or lost because she is almost totally deaf. The only sounds that Sazi responds to regularly are the clanging of pots and pans in the kitchen and the deep, percussive barking from a dog down the street.

So far, Sazi knows more than thirty signs and commands, and we are steadily increasing our vocabulary. She is incredibly attentive and reads us so clearly that sometimes she seems to know what we are thinking... even before we do! She's brilliant, loving, and often hilariously funny, and people who meet her rarely realize that she can't hear them speaking.

Together, we continue to learn how to communicate with one another-- two different species learning a new language together.