As someone mentioned, we even *spell* a word, so he won't get needlessly excited.
Posted on 08/30/2016 5:57:12 PM PDT by Innovative
When you praise a dog, it's listening not just to the words you say but also how you say them.
That might not be huge news to dog owners. But now scientists have explored this phenomenon by using an imaging machine to peek inside the brains of 13 dogs as they listened to their trainer's voice.
The reward pathway in the dogs' brains lit up when they heard both praising words and an approving intonation — but not when they heard random words spoken in a praising tone or praise words spoken in a flat tone, according to a report in the journal Science.
"Dogs process both what we say and how we say it in a way which is amazingly similar to how human brains do," says Attila Andics, a neuroscientist at Eotvos Lorand University in Hungary.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
I’ve been practicing this since I was five years old when my Mother taught me about talking to dogs and horses using a non threatening tone. I tell my clients this on a daily basis. It works. Its not what you say but how you say it.
Yes and facial expressions.
Dogs are as smart as we let them be. Or as dumb.
Meh. Cats understand every word you say. They just don’t give a sh!t.
If you get that look when you’ve already said something, it’s the doggie WTF.
A woman I dated had a female German Shepard that was a quick learner when I started to see what she could handle... First, fetch me her leash when I walked her....I finally got it down to where I just pointed to the leash.
One warm day,she was sitting by the front door panting like crazy,I silently signalled her owner to watch....and said, Mandy,not in commanding voice,but more like a suggestion,go get a drink,she did... My friend just shook her head,smiling.
It is interesting that now scientific studies observed and confirmed it.
Maybe soon they will also notice that dogs think as well.
I believe that they think too. My cocker spaniel is 15 years old and has been totally deaf since ear surgery when he was 7, yet he responds to my lips moving when I speak in phrases such as "Good boy!"
We have a Rat Terrier. Very smart. My wife and I have to spell words like r-i-d-e because if she hears the word ride, she goes bananas.
I know my Golden knew what a lot of words meant. She could also tell time. I would tell her not to wake me up before 7 and as soon as the clock flipped to 7 she was all over me. She would be sitting next to me on the bed just staring at me and then look at the clock. She also knew when I was fake sleeping and making her wait.
I still miss her a lot. It will be 5 years tomorrow since she passed. I still miss our Chocolate Lab that died in 93.
"Nooooooooo! We are nooooooootttttt chasing that squirrel," is not understood by my dog.
They understand exactly, they are just ignoring the command deliberately.
Well duh..
As someone mentioned, we even *spell* a word, so he won't get needlessly excited.
Yep! and, "Do you want some food?"
"Do you want to play" (works best if you are crouching down :)
dogs are great. :)
I saw a woman deal with a barking dog. She said to the dog “quiet, or you’re getting a bath”.
I didn’t hear another sound from the dog.
LOL!
My uncut male Rott who goes almost everywhere with me greets me in the morning standing by my bed nuzzling my face panting and snorting....all fuzzy looking to my bad 58 year old eyes he looks like a smallish black bear with that broad assed head .....of course he’s wide awake on natural doggie amphetamine that comes with his anticipation that pack leader is awakening
It’s Groundhog Day all over again and he’s not one bit less excited than all the 1000 days before that we’ve done the same thing
That’s the wonder of dogs in a nutshell...
He then watches me get coffe and head to the bath or shower depending time constraints
He keeps an eye on me till his first big tell
I grab a diet dp from the fridge and put it in my yeti can cooler.....
And once I grab my phone and the keys and kiss mommy bye and squeeze her dedicated yoga firmed bodonkadonk and he is at the door opening it ....yes he figured that out as a pup...,
Turning circles tail twitching....he’s docked oddly considering he’s a Serbian import and they do not dock Rotts
He bounds to the FJ or land cruiser or jeep or maybe my sons F250....ever vigilant which ride will it be today all lined up where the back pasture meets the horse fence
Usually it’s the FJ unless I’ve got the livewire tuner in my hand....and believe me he knows that means the F250....turned to 515 horsepower and 300 plus pounds of torque....loud and fast and big bench front seat so he’s up front.....16 year son not allowed to run the chip without me in car
Anyhow.....he prefers the big truck
One bound and hes riding shotgun
And hell yes they know your tone
Duh
http://www.animalplanet.com/pets/how-many-words-do-dogs-know/
I can’t believe anyone even bothers to question the miracles that are dogs.
Hell, I have a freaking *snake* who not only knows when “riding season” has started, but has identified the difference between normal clothes and riding clothes.
[the difference being as subtle as the addition of a leather vest and boots]
The latter ensemble causes him to launch into pitiful, hilarious contortions inside his house, *begging* to be taken along on the bike.
He also understands what his backpack is for, loading himself into it at home and then again, when we’re about to leave one place and go to another.
He also dramatically sulks if I do not take him with.
That, mind you, from a “primitive reptilian brain”.
Only God Himself knows what wonders dogs are *truly* capable of.
/scoffs at “scientists”
I thought about you this past week. Someone’s Cobra got loose near a school and caused a massive search. Do you have a Cobra?
Nope.
No hots at all.
Not qualified and really not interested in owning, although I do enjoy looking at other peoples’ hots.
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