What words do your dogs understand?

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Ours all seem to understand some words...
Yum yums (treats)
Go byebye
Go for a walk
Park
Eat
And in Doom's case - Fetch.

What words get a reaction out of your dogs? How do they react to them? How can you tell that they know what your talking about? My sister and I were talking about it earlier and I'm just curious about other dogs' reactions.
 

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Hmmm. Outside of commands, Buddy knows (the others may know these as well):

Breakfast
Dinner
Mommy
Daddy
Ball
Dog Park
Let's Go
Cat

Erm... I feel like there should be more...

Anyways, Buddy goes NUTS for breakfast and dinner, it's too cute. We use mommy and daddy in contexts like, "go find mommy" or "where's mommy" or "go get mommy." Ball is Buddy's life so that's an obvious one for him. Dog park gets a really excited dance out of him (or used to, we haven't been in awhile), let's go, normally gets a skip in his step, it's really cute, lol. Cat, said like, "caaaat" means, the cat is being bad and he goes to tell him so. :D
 

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Conversationaly, Caleb knows:
all done
dinner
eat
Get the newspaper
Get the other one
Get a toy
Tiger/Elmo (his two favorite toys)
bunny
fish
cat/kitty
Chuck/Helen/Daddy's home
Where's Mommy?
Aunt Gayle
Oh yeah, can't forget- stink bug!
There's also a good amount of obedience/training commands he knows.
 

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Walk
Dog park
Sit
Laydown
shake
off (the couch that is lol) not to good about the jumping on people part though. :)
Heel (for the most part)
Come-:popcorn: I roll with laughter over this one. I work on recall all the time it seems impossible.
 

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I've broken Morgan's words into two categories... since he is still training on commands.

Commands:
Come Here
Sit
Lie Down
Wait
Stay
Easy (ease off the leash)
Leave it/Leave him alone
Off

Other words:
Good Boy (he LOVES hearing this)
Outside/Do you need to go outside? (ears perk up, he'll run to the door and poke it with his nose)
Potty (cue to pee)
Poop (cue to... well... poop)
Walk (he does a puppy dance)
Park (more puppy dance)
Ball (looks for a ball)
Doggy ("doggy" is his loofa dog, he'll usually go poke it with his nose, sometimes will bring it back to me)
Rope (same as "doggy", but with rope toy)
Bone (same as "doggy" or "rope")
Bowl (puppy dance, runs to where his bowls are)
Are you hungry? (PUPPY DANCE!)
Ouch! (let go, game over, playing too rough)


There are probably more, but I just woke up. lol!
 

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Milo knows:

Food/Dinner
Cookie
Ball
Toy
Outside
Walk
Ride/car
Bath
Pool
Beach
Kitty
Benji
Aidan
Bedtime
Drink
Nap
"it's on tv" (we use this if a dog is barking on tv and he goes to the window and barks.)

Benji knows:
Dinner/food
"Kyle"
 

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Thunder:
His name obviously, plus the usual obedience commands (sit, stay, come, heel, stand, down, wait, no, leave it - he knows these in both English and German)
And the tricks (paw, other paw, high 5, speak, "hup" which means to jump over whatever I'm pointing at)
Go Potty
Ball
Toy
Walk
Bye bye
Let's go
Time to eat
Go find John
Easy
Food/treat/are you hungry?/are you ready to eat?
Outside
Inside
Back up
Move

Sammy
His name and again, most obedience commands (sit, down, stay, wait, heel, come, leave it, no)
Quite a few tricks (turn light on/off, paw, other paw, high five, both paws, dance, sit up, spin, bang, roll over, crawl, and "arms" where he leaps into my arms)
Let's go
Walk
Bye Bye or ride
Just a minute (which usually means, I'll walk you in just a minute)
Bath
Outside
Inside

Scooter
Only a few obedience commands so far (sit, down, stay, come, leave it)
Let's go
Outside
Inside

Marley
Same stuff Sammy knows, minus the tricks

Juno
Not a whole lot yet, just her name and nicknames, let's go, and come (most of the time) are all we've mastered so far.
 

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In addition to commands I don't think I could possibly list all the words that my dogs know and understand exactly what I am talking about.

They know and understand the names of every person in the house and regulars that come over. If I tell them to go see <insert name> they go directly to that person or attempt to locate them.

Orson knows the different names of his toys and when asked to bring a specific one, IE Wobbly Knobbly, he will bring THAT toy.......if you just say 'toy' he knows it's his choice and it's the first one he comes to, LOL

They understand "back door" as opposed to "front door" They know and understand all the basics.......walk, outside, inside, play, run, bath, eat, blah blah blah

The words/phrases that get the most reaction are:

Phoebe "Kitty Kitty" she gets very worked up because she LOVES to chase.

Orson is a tie between "Who's here, go see" and "Are you hungry?"
 

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Ozzy know, out side of commands in both German and English (he's bi lingual, lol)

Wheres that (squirrel, frisbee, ball, etc)
Get it!
Hey! Gimme that!
Where are my SHOES??? (This makes him leave as he has probably taken them off somewhere)
Chuckit
Frisbee
Park
P-A-R-K
Cochran Mill
Walk
W-A-L-K
Wheres Apollo?
Leash
Treat
Hot dog
Pizza
P-I-Z-Z-A

Ummmm.. I think thats it...
 

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That I'm sure of other than commands:

Mommy
Daddy
Upstairs
Downstairs
Park
Din-din (food)
Treat
No
Potty
Out
Hush
Ride

Commands:
Sit
Down
Stay
Away
Thank you (give it to me)
Fetch
Here
Let's go
Crate
Spin
Shake
Ask Nicely (beg)
Over
Bow
Leave it

I'm not really sure where the boundary for command/word is. "Let's go" is conversational, but she knows that's she's supposed to do something when I say it.
 

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I could never list them all. My dogs, especially Millie, pick up on words and phrases in everyday life and teach themselves what it means. The same with body language, I couldn't list what hand/body signals they respond to, because they pick up on the major ones along with the subtle, usually inadvertently taught.
 

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I could never list them all. My dogs, especially Millie, pick up on words and phrases in everyday life and teach themselves what it means. The same with body language, I couldn't list what hand/body signals they respond to, because they pick up on the major ones along with the subtle, usually inadvertently taught.
Agreed! :)
 
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Daddys Home + run to gate or door
Cookie Wookie: means come to me and wag tail
Lets go + meet me at the door or gate.PUPPPPPPPPIEEEEEEES or Puppy puppy puppy= come to me
Meata ball said like that is Teddys command to come inside

WHAT DID YOU DO+ means somone did something wrong all hide/

Their name vs NO is like COZEMO stop what u r doing.

Works well for my breed vs basic obedience commands.
Plus give paw vs sit to get treat is better since we do show once in a moon.

Happy voice means good guys
No voice means you decide
Bad voice is back off to humans dogs will protect.
 

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