Re: 7 Words That Dogs Can Understand (And 4 That No Dog Can)

On Mar 3, 2025, Janet wrote
(in article<MPG.422f9f60c7b9ea8023e@news.individual.net>):

In article<ighasjpfkvqc8cki5ua5s9dg5fq59e7v4n@4ax.com>,
hayesstw@telkomsa.net says...

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On Sun, 02 Mar 2025 13:16:37 -0500, Judith Latham
<judithlatham@gmx.com>  wrote:
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A dog can understand 7 words. How many barks does a human understand?
I'll bet it's less than 7.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/7-words-that-dogs-can-un
derstand-and-4-that-no-dog-can/ss-AA1zZ4MU?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=1125b
1e87465429bb028d120b0cb2b57&ei=42

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Could you tell us what the words were?

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Name sit stay no walk treat come

well, that’s wrong, for a start. My dogs understand their names and know
when I’m addressing one of the other dogs; that’s three names. They know
‘car’, ’sit’, ‘up’, ‘down’, ’stop’, ‘off’,
‘walk’, ‘good boy’, ‘good girl’, ’no’, ’stay’,
‘come’, ‘go’, ‘heel’, ‘run’, ‘food’, ’treat’, and
’shut up’. And several more that I can’t be bothered listing. They know
that they’re not allowed on the couch, even if they make cute puppy-dog
eyes at me, and get off on command. They know that ‘car’ means that
they’re taking a road trip, often to the vet; they go to the car and wait
for me to open the door, then jump in. They’re not happy about trips to the
vet, but they go. (Note that they also know ‘vet’, and if they hear
‘vet’ before they hear ‘car’ they’ll make themselves scarce.)

They know awhole lot more than just seven words. Someone either wasn’t
trying very hard to teach their dogs, or had stupid dogs, or was him/herself
not too bright. I suspect a combination of the last two.

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Janet.
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When I tried to go to that site it changed the URL to
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https://www.msn.com/en-za
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and showed a totally blank screen.