New catch dog prospect

Kevin,

I did not give much thought to the pricked ear and its relationship to hearing. We have come across plenty of aussies with pricked ears over the years, whos hearing has not been effected, so I just assumed it would be the same case with the bulldog. Just an assumption though on my part.

As to testing his hearing, in the past with our bulldog with "unilat" she could hear the bay, but did not always go straight to the bay. Seems like she had a 50/50 shot at getting it right, and sometimes she would head the other way, and sometimes she got it right. You could clap behind each ear and she would look your direction, but she might have felt the "pressure" from the clapping, vs actually hearing it.

I would like some feedback on how to test her for "unilateral" hearing. I really don't think that just watching her go to a bay in a pen will do anything to test her hearing though. Any thoughts?