vonn
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My old dog doesn't speak but he gets his point across on anything he cares to communicate,he listens to me then does whatever he wants. Sort of like a lot of people I know.
Do you talk to your dog?
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Frank237
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I've got a Border Collie. Very intelligent. Supposed to be one of the smartest breeds, with an amazing memory and the ability to differentiate between hundreds of items by NAME.
Mine is pretty smart, but she does move her lips when she reads the paper.
Mine is pretty smart, but she does move her lips when she reads the paper.
jeffsmith
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I Tell my Family our Dog Talks Back
I Imagine that Answers a Question
you Weren't Asking
I Imagine that Answers a Question
you Weren't Asking
Some words? ... One of mine has a distinct vocabulary recognition of more than 100 specific words.
I had to start spelling them so that he wouldn't get all excited. Now he's learning to spell. It's crazy weird.
Jboutfishn
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Brought a tear to my eyes. Cody has been gone for years but I still talk to him.
Fishslayer
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Of course I talk to my dog. Doesn't everybody?
shouldazagged
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My little rat terrier roommate has lived here for almost five years--I think he's about eleven--and it's just the two of us. Of course I talk to him. We both enjoy it.
I've always been one who talked to little kids the way sig220.45 does, as if they were very small adults. I love to say wildly silly things to them deadpan, in a grave, serious tone, and watch them burst out giggling.
I've always been one who talked to little kids the way sig220.45 does, as if they were very small adults. I love to say wildly silly things to them deadpan, in a grave, serious tone, and watch them burst out giggling.
We had two shelties. We talked to them a lot, and they seemed to understand a lot of it. They also understood what we were saying when we talked to each other. They realized those sounds conveyed meanigns, and I think they had a vocabulary of about 75 words. Of course, being pack animals, they had a tremendous understand of non-verbal communications also; movements, facial and bodily expressions.
BigBill
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My dog mainly listens to my misses.
My cats know commands. There outside I whistle a tune they come running all three brothers. They know "let's go to bed". "UP" means jump up on the kitchen chair. "Want to eat" they come to eat. Want a treat? Want to play?
They know and understand.
My cats know commands. There outside I whistle a tune they come running all three brothers. They know "let's go to bed". "UP" means jump up on the kitchen chair. "Want to eat" they come to eat. Want a treat? Want to play?
They know and understand.
quneur
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I talk to my dog all the time but she rarely gets my jokes.
J. R. WEEMS
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Yes I do, a lot-- don't let anyone kid you- dogs understand a LOT more than they are given credit for. Yes, your tone of voice is a lot of it as well. They also know, or can,more commands, and or words than they are given credit for. We have to SPELL things in front of Sarah, and I thinik She has picked some of that up as well. And YES, she talks to us also. JMHO.
Maybe it's the incredible hearing that relates to understanding dozens of words and phrases. I talk nonsense and have serious discussions with my old Girliegirl and she responds with woofs, groans, grunts and whines. We pretty much keep her around the house, unleashed when she's outside she likes to visit the neighbors power line poles and her least favorite thing to hear is "Stick Around".
I talk to my dogs all the time. Mostly about them getting a job and paying their own way. Or at least helping around the house with light housekeeping chores. Nothing has soaked in so far. Gus does, however, like to go with me when I take out the garbage or feed the birds, but I think that's more about him getting to pee on the trees in the front yard for a change. Olive, on the other hand, is perfectly happy on the couch looking out the window for interlopers.
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rjm6120
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My wife and I talk to our dog, Molly, all the time. We also have at least a dozen nicknames for her. She's a 15 year old rat terrier and she's still chugging along. In the last couple years she seems to have gotten more attached to us, almost like she knows she won't be around forever. She's a good little dog.
Of Course! Both of them! One listens better...
One listens better...
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I could go off into a long discussion about this, but the simplest answer is yes, I do talk to my dogs. Why wouldn't I? Life would be incredibly boring if I didn't.
The conversations I have with them...and make no mistake, they are conversations...are often more rewarding than those I have with a lot of humans.
Besides...Beau always laughs at my jokes.
Johnny_w
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Gunter is a rescue. Every time I have to do something he doesn't like I blame the adoption contract. Have to have your nails trimmed? I get to do that, you should have read the contract. Need to remove a mat? You really should have read that contract. Time to go to the vet? Do you read anything before you sign it?
Arik
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Of course! I thought that it was a given. .....you have dog....you talk to it
I have one dog that would seriously rather be petted or have me talking to him than eat a steak. I talk to my dogs more than I do my wife...she always gets upset and we have to argue over something I say. The dogs never do that!!!! We also have howling sessions when no one is around...the two house dogs love to howl with me. I have this really cool sounding coyote howler and they love it better than the FD siren!!!
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When I got my lit'l Daschund as a puppy at about 6 weeks old, I would hold her cuddle her, talk with her...Sort of like I did with my wife when we first married.
Now my Mrs. has been gone for 14 years now, but I think my lit'l girl is the Mrs. incarnated.
So as she has grown to a adult, in dog years, she won't listen to me, has her own mind, does what she wants to do no matter what I say to her. The only thing she doesn't do, is go shopping..But she has been known to bring things home. Just like someone else I knew.....
Now her name is Monica..No she wasn't named for the infamous Monica!!!!..Now when I've become exasperated with her for not coming when I call her, I refer to her first name..."DAMN IT". That she seems to understand pretty well...Sometimes...."Damn it, come here"..."Damn it, stop it"...Or if she has a accident because of her medical condition...Then of course I change my tune...."OH Monica"...in a softer voice..She knows.....
I'd have to say, I think she is more of girl that can understand body language better. In that respect, we can communicate pretty well. I pretty much know what she wants or needs, and she can pretty much understand mine.
But of course like all dogs, she fully understands, "Let's go for a ride". "Lets go to bed". "Do you want to go out?"...."Where's the squirrel"?
Of course when I'm in one of my melancholy moods, and talk out loud, she knows whether I'm talking about her, or something else....
My understanding her dog talk, I know when she does her sort of whimpers when I get out her food, she gets pretty excited, and lets me know...
In her sleep and dreaming??? She makes some whimpering sounds too, but those I haven't quite figured out. But depending on what we did during the day, I can pretty much guess what her dreams are about.
So do I talk to her?...Of course I do....Does she talk to me? Well sometimes I get the silent treatment...Just like someone else used to do....But I wouldn't be without her....
WuzzFuzz
Now my Mrs. has been gone for 14 years now, but I think my lit'l girl is the Mrs. incarnated.
So as she has grown to a adult, in dog years, she won't listen to me, has her own mind, does what she wants to do no matter what I say to her. The only thing she doesn't do, is go shopping..But she has been known to bring things home. Just like someone else I knew.....
Now her name is Monica..No she wasn't named for the infamous Monica!!!!..Now when I've become exasperated with her for not coming when I call her, I refer to her first name..."DAMN IT". That she seems to understand pretty well...Sometimes...."Damn it, come here"..."Damn it, stop it"...Or if she has a accident because of her medical condition...Then of course I change my tune...."OH Monica"...in a softer voice..She knows.....
I'd have to say, I think she is more of girl that can understand body language better. In that respect, we can communicate pretty well. I pretty much know what she wants or needs, and she can pretty much understand mine.
But of course like all dogs, she fully understands, "Let's go for a ride". "Lets go to bed". "Do you want to go out?"...."Where's the squirrel"?
Of course when I'm in one of my melancholy moods, and talk out loud, she knows whether I'm talking about her, or something else....
My understanding her dog talk, I know when she does her sort of whimpers when I get out her food, she gets pretty excited, and lets me know...
In her sleep and dreaming??? She makes some whimpering sounds too, but those I haven't quite figured out. But depending on what we did during the day, I can pretty much guess what her dreams are about.
So do I talk to her?...Of course I do....Does she talk to me? Well sometimes I get the silent treatment...Just like someone else used to do....But I wouldn't be without her....
WuzzFuzz
