Comments on: Speaking to Dogs So They Don’t Understand You

By: Human Rescues Dog

Human Rescues Dog — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:25:07 +0000

Just discovered this post, hilarious! Love that ‘walk’ becomes ‘perambulation’ (goodness, you have a big vocabulary). For us, ‘rawhides’ become “R.H.s”, walks become “W.A.L.K”. Food becomes “doof” (although Charlie’s rapidly figuring that one out). We also have to watch our body language. So if Hannah sees me put on shoes, she starts getting really excited for ‘walkies’. Now, she looks at me in anticipation even as early as when I put on socks, or when I go to the drawer to get the socks.

By: Pup Fan

Pup Fan — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:04:45 +0000

Do you find that your language has to undergo constant evolution? Because it seems like every time I come up with new words to outsmart the dogs, they end up catching on and I have to start all over again! For example, Bella seems to have realized that “her” could refer to, well, her. So that doesn’t work for us anymore. We do tend to call the dogs “the beasts” in hopes that they won’t know we’re talking about them and we now refer to meals as “your favorite thing” since Bella realized that “6 o’clock” was code for dinner. I’m sure she’ll catch on to that one too… 🙂

By: Clowie

Clowie — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:18:45 +0000

They started spelling things like walk, car, food. Then, when I could spell them, they started using variations. When I knew all those, they started using Spanish. I understand about half a dozen variations on going for a walk in both English and Spanish.

By: themisadventuresofmisaki

themisadventuresofmisaki — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:54:58 +0000

Daddy used to wind me up about dinner and then got frustrated with me when I got super hyper, so now they keep it calm and and cryptic

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:11:36 +0000

Elka understands too much, at times. We haven’t resorted to spelling, though (yet). Typically, phrases that get her going start with “Elka, do you wanna….”, because it finishes with things like “go for a walk”, “go in the car”, “go play out back.” She also gets excited when I ask if she wants to go to bed with my fiance (he frequently is sleeping when I leave for work), but we try to keep her a little more understated then!

Elka also comes running if I’m doing anything with Tupperware, because frequently I’ll give her the leftover vegetables from dinner.

By: Loy Cerf

Loy Cerf — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:30:48 +0000

Dogs are incredible…Cats are too. My cat responds to seeing a suitcase, she knows what that means. If I say ‘brush’, she immediately hops up onto the desk where I brush her. ‘Dinner’ must be universal! Happy Sunday!

By: Sue at Talking Dogs

Sue at Talking Dogs — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:10:01 +0000

Jeffie and Rudy like to go up to the road to get the mail. Now we can no longer even spell m-a-i-l. Nor can we say anything about the r-o-a-d. I swear, they have esp 😀

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 03:55:47 +0000

We have always spelled out words like W-A-L-K, T-R-E-A-T, and P-A-R-K, but we swear that she learned them too!! Cali has always been such a little smarty pants 😉 Now that she doesn’t hear as well, we miss the days when I used to be able to see her ears perk up when we mentioned the word “dog” or “toy”. They are just too cute!!

By: Donna

Donna — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:40:25 +0000

Ha ha! I was just thinking that you and Jodi were on the same page with this post. 🙂

By: Kimberly, The Fur Mom

Kimberly, The Fur Mom — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:48:45 +0000

The following words mean that I’m going to have three crazy dogs around me…

Walk, Dog Park, Bye Bye, Outside, Carrots, Treat, Cookie, Kitty, Jaffrey, Cosmo, and Ice cream.

Yep, we spell things out all the time. They know more words, but these are the words that will make them go from sleeping dogs to crazy, hyper dogs in seconds.