BELLAIRE — The Upper Ohio Valley Obedience Training Club believes any dog can learn, even ones that can’t hear.

The nonprofit club is offering a six-week training course for deaf dogs and puppies beginning at 6 p.m. Sept. 3 at the club’s headquarters at 56490 Key Bellaire Road in Bellaire. In that course, instructors Kris Metz and Connie Smith, both of whom have deaf dogs, will guide dogs and their owners through training exercises based on hand signals.

Club board member Linda Cornell said Metz and her Papillon KC have taken classes she instructs and Cornell marvels over Metz’s work with her dog. She said KC is almost ready to compete in American Kennel Club shows.

“She is amazing,” Cornell said of Metz. “She truly is a specialist with deaf dogs. She said she would love to teach and br

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