Communication between a deaf dog & hearing dog

[Patti]

Last night Otis was playing with our friends' dogs, Norah & Maggie (Maggie is deaf). Maggie is a just a puppy - 1 yr. - still and a little (very) rambunctious. She also is a big humper. Otis is very tolerant but last night, for the first time ever, with any dog, he had enough of her crap & tried letting her know by giving her the 'I'm not playing' growl a couple times. She obvioulsy couldn't hear that and was all over him. He let out the worst snarl I've ever heard come out of him and was about to be on top of her when I grabbed him and Marty grabbed Maggie. I don't think he would have attacked her or anything, but he was definitely being serious.

Unfortunately she just didn't get it and tried coming back to play with him a couple times. After keeping them settled for a couple minutes they were fine, she had calmed down and Otis didn't hold a grudge.

I know dogs have many ways of communicating, vocalizing being just one of them. I didn't want to just let Otis teach her a lesson since I'm not sure what would have happened, but I don't see her picking up on it any other way. She is like this ALL the time. When she gets like this with Norah, Norah bascially shuts down and just lets her do whatever..kinda like Maggie still has the annoying puppy license with her. I just worry that Maggie is going to try this with the wrong dog someday & get hurt. Is she just being an annoying puppy or is she really not picking up on the cues?

[BoxerPerson]

Maybe a squirt bottle...you or the owner squirting her in the face should get her attention.

[ltournat]

Good question...Maybe Andrea (Hulk & Storm's mom) could provide you with some answers.

[Bugsys Mom]

Sounds like a rude puppy to me Patti.  I think dogs vocalizing is a much smaller part of their communication than body language.  I do think you were right to pull them apart and I think her owner needs to step in when the humping starts.  Humping is an attention seeking behavior and it's very rude.

[Patti]

Yeah they do stop it, but she is relentless. She tries over & over again. I feel like she should be picking up on the body language even moreso since she's deaf (kind like other senses being more acute), but she either isn't or she is and she's just over stepping her bounds.

[boxer pal]

I'm no expert by FAR at this point, but I've been watching Rudy with Malibu VERY carefully.  She seems to watch his body language very intently and when she over steps her bounds with him and he uses his 'ugly' snarly face at her, she does back off. 
So . . just based on what I've see so far and what I understand about Maggie, she's being a snot and just not wanting to pay attention to Otis's signals.  Or . . .  she just gets too ramped up in play and looses her ability to read signals from other dogs.