On Sun, 02 Mar 2025 13:16:37 -0500, Judith Latham
<judithlatham@gmx.com> wrote:

A dog can understand 7 words. How many barks does a human understand?
I'll bet it's less than 7.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/7-words-that-dogs-can-understand-and-4-that-no-dog-can/ss-AA1zZ4MU?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=1125b1e87465429bb028d120b0cb2b57&ei=42

Or course I often deliberately misunderstand our dog - for instance if
he's mooching for a doggie treat I will go to the back yard "thinking"
he wants out onto the back lawn...

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On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 11:14:13 -0000, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:

Could you tell us what the words were?

Name sit stay no walk treat come

Ours understands "let's cross" (at an intersection) or "better go now"
(though he seldom requires encouragement to pee or poop) I've never
liked dogs but 'inherited' my wife's dog when she died 3 years ago and
have found he's learned several phrases from me. My adult daughter
lives with me so he gets walked twice a day - me doing day walks
weekdays and her doing them on weekends, vice versa on weekends when
she's not working.

I suspect he understands "good dog" though it may just be my tone of
voice. Often when it's "walkies" time he'll just stretch out or
deliberately stay lying down until I get annoyed and bribe him with a
small treat. (Which I don't give him until I have his harness on) He
most gets in trouble when he goes to our cat's food bowlin the kitchen
on his way to the deck. On walks he also knows he has to stay until
I've scooped his poop. He is also much better with other dogs than
when I first started walking him.

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On 01/06/2025 20:55, The Horny Goat wrote:

On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 11:14:13 -0000, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:

Could you tell us what the words were?

Name sit stay no walk treat come

Ours understands "let's cross" (at an intersection) or "better go now" (though he seldom requires encouragement to pee or poop) I've never
liked dogs but 'inherited' my wife's dog when she died 3 years ago and
have found he's learned several phrases from me. My adult daughter
lives with me so he gets walked twice a day - me doing day walks
weekdays and her doing them on weekends, vice versa on weekends when
she's not working.

Television dog trainer Barbara Woodhouse
used code phrases to tell a dog to pee or
poop - is that what you're saying?
Reviewer Clive James reported that she
used "Hurry up" for pooping, and he wondered
what would happen if a passing parent with
a child called out "Hurry up!"

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On Sun, 1 Jun 2025 23:53:39 +0100, Robert Carnegie
<rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:

On 01/06/2025 20:55, The Horny Goat wrote:

On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 11:14:13 -0000, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:
=20

Could you tell us what the words were?

Name sit stay no walk treat come

=20
Ours understands "let's cross" (at an intersection) or "better go now"
(though he seldom requires encouragement to pee or poop) I've never
liked dogs but 'inherited' my wife's dog when she died 3 years ago and
have found he's learned several phrases from me. My adult daughter
lives with me so he gets walked twice a day - me doing day walks
weekdays and her doing them on weekends, vice versa on weekends when
she's not working.

Television dog trainer Barbara Woodhouse
used code phrases to tell a dog to pee or
poop - is that what you're saying?
Reviewer Clive James reported that she
used "Hurry up" for pooping, and he wondered
what would happen if a passing parent with
a child called out "Hurry up!"

Perhaps nothing:=20
"Different voice, different smell, not my Alpha".
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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