[Dailydrool] Dog vocabulary

[Esther Strom]

I saw a documentary on the Science Channel a while back about a dog whose
owner claimed he understood several hundred words. They proved it by asking
the dog to bring them certain toys and go to certain rooms, and it was
right 100% of the time. This obviously may not be the case for every dog,
just like human's vocabulary can vary, but I'd say it's definitely possible
that we underestimate how much a dog can learn.

-Esther, Basil, and Waldo ATB



On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Riche Churchill <buglr at blomand.net> wrote:

>
> I read once that dogs generally don't understand most of what we say, as
> in: "Rover, blah-blah-blah, COOKIE, blah-blah-blah, GO OUTSIDE?,
> blah-blah-blah, ROVER!, blah-blah. I think this is true, and my dogs'
> vocabulary is limited pretty much to Cookie, Treat, Dinner, Out Back!, Out
> Front!, and (occasionally) "NO!" (not that they heed the last one all that
> well). They all know their names, but also know their nicknames, all of
> whom have the same ones -- as in No-No-Bad-Dog and/or Ow-dammit or
> Get-Out-From-Underfoot! (my favorite). They don't pay much attention to the
> latter two. How about yours?
> Riche
>
>
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