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Show Animals Are 'Ears' for Deaf Woman GOODING, IDA. Deafness has proved no great handicap to Mrs. Violet Gooding, for she has Inky, a cat, and Impy, a dog, to serve as ber "ears." The amazing thing about the tw animals is that they have been trained In the universal sign language lan-guage of the deaf. There are no spoken commands in Mrs. Goooing's home. Her hands do the commanding. command-ing. i No doorbell warns of impending visitors. When someone at the door presses a button, a red light comes on in the living rocm. If Mrs. Gooding Good-ing doesn't notice it, Impy or Inky do and notify their mistress. Impy awakens Mrs. Gooding every morning morn-ing by patting the bed covers. Mrs. Gooding, who lives alone, is self-supporting, working for the State School for the Deaf and Blind here. Her husband died in :937 |