Okay! So, I started noticing my dog staying calm and put whenever I’m having conversations with people— phone or live conversations. And he just looks at me like he understands what we’re saying. Now, that creeps me out.
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Okay! So, I started noticing my dog staying calm and put whenever I’m having conversations with people— phone or live conversations. And he just looks at me like he understands what we’re saying. Now, that creeps me out.
Yes they do, although they can’t quite speak for themselves, they have a deep understanding of the potential use of language, and some dogs are actually so interested in our languages that they’ll begin to learn it kind of like a newborn human baby learns. Some dogs, such as helper dogs, therapy dogs, are specially trained to understand certain words. Some K-9’s are taught different languages in case someone tries to tell them what to do, and the dog won’t respond unless its in the owners specified language, and most often their officers choose German or Russian. Helper dogs and therapy dogs are trained to also recognize help words such as “help” “fell” “call police” “ouch” and will come to your aid. Some dogs are even trained to perform actions dependent on a key phrase, kind of like bucky barns, the winter soldier. These phrases can trigger them to do anything you want such as “sit” if you put it simply. Dogs understand that we speak, and probably know a lot more of our languages than they can say. Try talking to your dog, and training them to perform an action after saying something.
Most dogs understand human speech,rhythm, patterns and inflections to a great deal, in addition to our body language, in conveying what our intent is to our dog. They are capable of learning commands if someone takes the time to teach them in a consistent manner for each one. Once a dog becomes proficient in understanding that word, many can discern the word if spoken in a sentence. This ability gives the impression that the dog understands everything said in context to the words he knows. They really do try to understand exactly what we want and many make rather educated guesses in their attempts. There are a few exceptional dogs who are capable of building very large vocabularies over their lifetime. These dogs are very perceptive and are considered geniuses in their own right. One dog, a Border Collie named Chaser, has a vocabulary of well over a thousand words. This is comparable to a three year old child’s vocabulary. While humans learn words by context, dogs must learn each one by itself from scratch. As a result, it takes dogs longer to learn words but they remember them. Dogs are able to also identify an unknown object from a group of known objects when asked to retrieve it. This ability to do so was thought to only be an ability of humans and is known as “fast mapping”.