[ChicagoConservative27]

A lady at work bought these buttons for her beagle. The beagle is more interested jumping on the counter looking for food.

[Jonty30]

I think dogs understand single words.
You don’t have to use entire sentences when it comes to dogs.

[KarlInOhio]

[Candor7]

Ping.

Also see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8k2upr9vCE

[higgmeister]

Two things.   The lady is full of herself. &nsbp; And if I had a conversation with a dog wherein I had to accede to his or her whims or notions, it would drive me crazy in a day.

[Leaning Right]

Cats understand words, too. But they are way too arrogant to share that with you.

Side note: I reluctantly inherited a cat. Now I am 100% pro-cat. For all their eccentricities, they do get to you.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[Beowulf9]

We had a dog named Robbie. We used t say to him, ‘want to go out’? Then open the door to the backyard and he’d happily run out there.

One day he came up to my sister, mother and I and in his little doggie voice, all in one doggie whine like voice said, ‘wannagoout’ and ran to the door tail a-waggin’.

He knew what it meant but obviously the sound to him was a one block of a sound he was familiar with. The sound made when associated with letting him out.

It was cute though :)🐶

[Retain Mike]

My son’s dog Reya chose which words to understand.

[The Sentient Sheep]

Ya, just keep feeding them treats, the more delicious...the better. All dogs are geniuses when it comes to food. My dogs will do my taxes and investment strategy for treats...

[ThanhPhero]

The 18 pound half poodle half dachshund I had for 15 years seemed very intelligent One time she was trying to get me to let her out and I was ignoring her. I saw her draw herself up and take a deep breath and come out with a modulated wail I had never heard before. I looked up and she turned toward the door. I took her out. After that she would do various versions of that when she wanted something. It is as if she tried to make the same sort of sounds we make, tried to "talk" as it were. I also watched her watching the cat stalk and catch a bird several times then saw her imitate the cat's movements and she stalked and caught a bird. Never did it again. Once she scoped out all four doors(they were all open) and check where everyone in the family was before she ran into he kitchen and grabbed the 4 year old's sandwich which the kid had left on a chair.
Before her I had another dog that was about the same size that never exhibited anything I would call intelligent beyond what normally is sufficient for a dog. Both were great because they would ride with me for long distances on my motorcycle.

[lepton]

There is a wide variability in the intelligence of dogs. I know of dogs that clearly had vocabularies of at least a couple of dozen words, including adjectives. I know of others that knew only their name...probably.

[mairdie]

Loving this thread. Thank all of you.

[Organic Panic]

Not sure about any tiktok fads but having raised dogs just about my whole life we understand their language and they understand ours better than some skeptical biologist knows.

[FLT-bird]

My dogs definitely understand several words such as

ball, outside, dinner, food, doggy park, play etc and they know their names.

[RoosterRedux]

Having had relationships with many animals over the years, I have concluded that they are very intelligent (but not always in ways that make sense to humans).

BTW, corvids (crows, jays, magpies) are thought to be as intelligent as a 5-7 year old human. And that doesn't even address the issue of maturity (and I raise the issue of maturity to say that I think my own intelligence declined dramatically when my male hormones kicked in during my high school years).