Comments on: How many words does your dog know?

By: Lindsay Stordahl

Lindsay Stordahl — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:25:14 +0000

That’s awesome! Keep working with him, I’m sure he loves learning as much as possible!

By: Claire

Claire — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:05:03 +0000

Thanks for encouraging me to teach my Rottweiler even more words. He’s 2 and we were quite impressed when we listed 27 words and phrases he knows. But I’ll keep going. He’s now learning Frnech!

By: Lindsay Stordahl

Lindsay Stordahl — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:39:56 +0000

I know Ace understands ball more than anything. I haven’t tried spelling it out. Not sure if he’d pick up on that eventually or not!

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:37:20 +0000

I know I’m late to the discussion, but just enjoyed reading this post since it’s something I think about a lot. I really think Muffin understands EVERYTHING I say, but especially “ball”.
When talking to my girlfriend we have to spell it out, like “do you know where she left her B-A-L-L-? And even then she’ll perk up sometimes!

By: Lindsay Stordahl

Lindsay Stordahl — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:25:45 +0000

Aw, Emma is so cute. I love that she knows “Where’s Squeekers?” Haha. And “Where’s Brother?”

By: tawnawhitford

tawnawhitford — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:46:42 +0000

Hey there Lindsay- Emma is so smart! I regularly use phrases like, Time for breakfast, Time for dinner, Go outside, Go potty, come, heel, load up, good dog, bad dog, no, where’s brother? where’s squeekers, go to bed, go lie down, sit, lay down, and What do you want? (which elicits two quick barks.) I think there’s more but that’s all that comes to mind for now.

By: Lindsay Stordahl

Lindsay Stordahl — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:39:51 +0000

Ha. I actually never spell things. We just randomly say the word ball as a game with him.

By: Shay

Shay — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:05:18 +0000

What? No spelling? Hehehe.

By: Lindsay Stordahl

Lindsay Stordahl — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:21:09 +0000

Ha! Yeah, that is how Ace learned hungry, water, treat, etc. The word “ball” is what gets Ace the most excited. Sometimes my boyfriend and I will casually say the word ball in a conversation to see if Ace notices. Or we will whisper the word from another room.

By: Dawn Ross

Dawn Ross — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:22:18 +0000

My dogs have picked up words on their own from just causual conversation. I can’t say words like, “food”, “hungry”, “dinner”, “eat”, “cookies”, “leash”, “shoes”, “walk”, “car”, or “go” without them perking up their ears. Since I talk to my dogs all they time, the pretty much ignore me until they hear a word they like – and I don’t even have to use my doggie voice or commanding voice when I say them.