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Subject: Re: 7 Words That Dogs Can Understand (And 4 That No Dog Can)
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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.'"