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Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Tine canine hasst fouled on thin pasture to many solar rotations, shall we vacate to the yonder pastures of four legged companions?
You can use the word dog? For us it’s like “have you escorted the four-legged being around the premises?” and then he picks it up from the tone.
My dog knows how to spell now apparently.
“Has she had her W A L K ?” (Ears perk up and head turns)
Has our dog had her morning constitutional? Perhaps we should perambulate within the neighborhood this afternoon?😂
Lol. The problem we have is that in addition to understanding English our dogs are also clairvoyant. As an example, one of them seems to know hours in advance that we are going to do a nail trimming and then disappears under the bed to that perfect defensive point in the center where no one can reach her.
I whatsapped my son the other day asking if we could get a walk in when he came home. One of my dogs either read my mind or can determine what I am typing because she absolutely knew what was going on
We have to say “closet snacks” for treats and “W” for walks but they are catching on fast like little raptors
That won’t help. The dog will learn new phrases soon.
In my family we switched from 3 different languages (German – English- Polish) to made up fantasy words. Upon switching we had only one peaceful week then the dog understood what we were talking about.
My sister’s dog pees on command so please DONOT say the word pee while he is inside the house
My dog was particularly excited by visiting the place between the land and sea.
I was letting my wife know what I bought our 4 year old for Christmas while he was in the room and I referred to Captain Underpants as Admiral Pantaloons
In our household we just switch languages. But even then we need to mix words to
“Would you like to accompany me on the daily movement around the neighborhood?”
After my aunt’s dog learned the word “walk”, then she would spell out w-a-l-k. But then the dog learned that, too and she said that her dog could spell and gave up after that.
I would have so much fun with this!
cats and do learn supposedly around 200 words, so now the dog is learning how to speak more properly.
hes still going to learn it..lol
“have you x/y” is instant attention. Like, one of them is positively too fucking dumb but the lab, the lab listens. The lab knows.
I often have to say, “I will dispense sustenance to the canids. “
We tried acronyms. He learned those. We are now on pig Latin….
We can’t say ‘dinner’ in our house, it’s now called ‘evening nourishment’.
Our old dog figured out the word “walk”, so my wife and I started calling it “going for a double-u”. Then the dog picked up on that, too.
IIRC dogs can recognize/understand only a couple hundred of words. I would love to know which words so I can stop spelling them instead. It seems, at 4+ years old, he would’ve learned all he was going to learn. But here I am spelling waffles just in case.
If I ever train a dog again I’m planning to teach them and discuss their activities using a foreign language. Hoping that degree of obfuscation plus a little added care makes it possible to keep from having to do this.
we had to stop using english words, so we resorted to chinese, but then they picked up on that so we go with vietnamese at this point. they’re too smart when they wanna be. then act dumb when they wanna be like “bath time” and all of a sudden they don’t get it
My dog learned random phrases I use too much like “excuse me” and she’ll get up, “I’ll be right back” or “I’ll be back in a minute” and she’ll stay there, “uh uh” for no, “I’m so sorry” after accidentally/nearly stepping on a paw and she’ll beg to be picked up while I continue to pet/apologize to her
That’s gold! We can no longer say “her” or “she”, and even “he” gets too much attention, so we now identify our dog as “they / them” and that has bought us some time. Inevitably, she will figure that out too, so our next strategy is to switch to Spanish…. Then French, then we considered Portuguese and Italian, but we fear that our time will be up in the Romance languages department. German or Japanese is probably in line in our not so distant future. Gotta love our stealthy little listeners! 🥷🐕
“I’m going to do the thing in a few minutes” means “I’m going to take him for a walk”.
We tried spelling out things, then had to consider learning ASL.
Laugh out loud
I can’t even say “do the thing.” Anymore.
Y’all can’t say walk because your dog gets excited. I can’t say walk because my dog hides. We are not the same
We say “her” when talking about the dog. “Do I offer her the can(of food).” Or sometimes speak Spanish so she wouldn’t understand.
“Perambulate the pooch” is our codename for walkies.
When the dogs learned the word “walk” we would start spelling it out “are you going on a w-a-l-k?” But eventually they learn “doubleyouayelkay” is another way to say “walk”. We are currently on “recreational excursion”. I hear dogs have a vocabulary cap, I wonder how many of their words are synonyms for walk? lol
Maybe I will say “walk” today and confuse them.
We do the same thing!
“Do you want to walk the dogs?” turned into “Any interest in ambulating the canines?”
“We need to potty the dogs” turned into “The hounds need to defecate.”
I can barely ask “do you wanna…” to anyone about anything because as soon as my dogs hear those three words, they’re excited.
We definitely can’t say the word “walk” in our 3 dog household
In my house, we perambulate regularly.
Did our ward have his most recent constitutional (walk)?
That is cute and creative. I just resorted to spelling out “dog park” “treat” and “vet” aloud
On, take, backyard wouldn’t work for my dogs. I resort to caveman talk and hand gestures with my wife “uggh uh ugga bugga”.
Eruopeans who know multiple languages.
WALK? OUTSIDE? DINNER?
When we were outside with the dog amd wanted it to go inside, we would call for someone to call the dog inside. Dog picked that know what he had to do and nobody had to call the dog again.