Research Shows Dogs Can Comprehend Words

Associated Press ^ | 6/10/04 | AP/Randolph E. Schmid

[Jimmy Valentine]

"Cats can too...they just don't care about anything you say"

And that is because cats are really tiny little women in fur coats!

(ducking and running!)

regards,

[VRWC_minion]

not the girls I picked up in a bar at 1:00 am.

[Shryke]

I hope you are aware that there is a standardized test to determine if you canine understands English, yes?

Purchase a large steak. Cook it so that your dog knows it is for you. Wait until the dog departs the room. Drop steak on ground. Then say, "Damn, there goes my steak. Sigh, I sure hate throwing out all this meat." If your canine doesn't appear within 3 seconds, he's illiterate. If he appears between .5 and 3 seconds, he's literate. If he appears in under one second, he's literate and precognitive. If your steak never actually hits the floor, your dog is a Republican.

[Xenalyte]

Purchase a large steak. Cook it so that your dog knows it is for you. Wait until the dog departs the room. Drop steak on ground. Then say, "Damn, there goes my steak. Sigh, I sure hate throwing out all this meat." If your canine doesn't appear within 3 seconds, he's illiterate. If he appears between .5 and 3 seconds, he's literate. If he appears in under one second, he's literate and precognitive. If your steak never actually hits the floor, your dog is a Republican.

Yo Bacon, remind me to pick us up an extra steak this weekend. We gotta try this.

[Bacon Man]

Yo Bacon, remind me to pick us up an extra steak this weekend. We gotta try this.

I think Salty will have to fight Bit for it and I think he'll lose. That fat pig of a cat has twice stolen the bacon out of my burger! Both times the burger was left unattended only for a few seconds. Now I take the burger with me.

[Xenalyte]

She stole your bacon? Beotch.

[showme_the_Glory]

want a c-o-o-k-i-e? My dog's not very good at spelling, but she knows lots of words. Comeere you stupid $^$@t

[Shryke]

Beotch

Ahahahahaha, yay for laughing at work. In all seriousness Bacon, if my girl had a cat (ok, impossible right there) and that cat took my bacon, my girl would then find her cat in my mouth (no double entendre jokes, please, we are all adults!).

[Xenalyte]

Ask Bacon how many cats he has.

[Shryke]

Whoaaaaa, Nelly. BACON is the cat owner? And how many, pray tell do you own, Mr. Bacon?

[Saundra Duffy]

My cats understand me, too.

[A CA Guy]

My dog understands some words.

He knows food, doggie, kitty, bird, walk and bath for sure.

He also like to watch cartoons and barks at animals he sees on the animal channel.

A massive 4 pound Yorkie boy!

Before him I had a 105 pound golden lab and it was the same case with words, but not TV.

[Bacon Man]

And how many, pray tell do you own, Mr. Bacon?

Six total or ten if you go by weight. Three are mine and three are Mrs Bacon's. Bit the bacon thief is one of mine.

[Docbarleypop]

My blue heeler learned to wipe her feet by watching me when ever i wipe mine she wipes hers, to go to her kennel she knows three different commands, "kennel" "time out" and "good night" and her body actions are appropriate for each command. the only thing i am having a hard time doing is to have her sit and stay, she will stay but not stay sitting, oh well she is only two.

[fly_so_free]

"If your steak never actually hits the floor, your dog is a Republican"

LOL! My dog is definitely a Republican.

"Cook it so that your dog knows it is for you. Wait until the dog departs the room"

My dog would have to be taken by the collar and physically removed from the room if a steak was cooking. And she would be right back in the kitchen, the minute she was turned loose.

If food is being prepared, she will come and lie down in a strategic location to where the food is. She pretends to be asleep. But , should even a small scrap fall , she snaps awake, and strikes like a rattle snake, and catches it before it hits the floor! "(We call her Dust Buster, because we never have to vacuum up any spilled food"). She will also decide to get up, and walk right in front of you , if you are carrying a plate or something. ( I swear she's trying to trip me).

We have to lock her up if people come over. She has the bad habit of removing a guest's plate of food from the table. When they're not looking she will set the plate gently onto the floor, (without spilling a drop), and then she devours it in under 2 seconds.Sometimes, I don't know why we put up with her.

She knows the word "Walk" too. All I have to say is "Want to go for a walk?". She will go to the front door and start whining and barking loudly until I put her leash on and take her for her walk. She's a character.

[longjack]

Rico: The 200 word dog.

According to "Spiegel", this is the dog.

"Spiegel-Online"....Hund Rico lernt wie ein Kind....Rico the dog learns like a child

longjack

[stands2reason]

I once caught a baby garter snake in my yard that bit me repeatedly. I thought it was hilarious.

[RightWhale]

Oh, it's German. Of course German is most dogs' native language. I say 'Schweigts du, Hund' and he gets the idea right away.

[fly_so_free]

Cute dog. Border Collies are supposed to be tha smateest dogs as I understand.

[gitmo]

When my father was a boy, his family had a border collie. They lived on a farm way back in the Appalachians. One day my grandmother looked out the kitchen door and noticed she couldn't see the cows in the pasture. She commented, "There's a storm coming. I'll bet the cows are in the barn."

Later, she noticed the dog had taken off, too.

That night, they found the dog in the barn, where he had herded the cows. He had heard her talking about the cows in the barn, so he'd gone out and herded them into the barn. Kept them there all day long. The storm never did come.