My goldendoodle puppy doesn’t ever want to come back inside. I told my beagle “go get your sister” as I tried rounding up the puppy. Now when I say “go get your sister” the beagle runs to the puppy and baits her into chasing him into the house.
I taught my pet rock to “stay” in 1988.
It hasn’t moved since.
Thank you Mr. Wright.
Comedian Steven Wright, for anyone who’s unfamiliar with him, you should check him out
I like you.
“After you”.
My dog would walk right on my heels and nearly trip me. Taught her “after you” kind of accidentally and now she goes ahead a distance and then waits for me if I’m not fast enough.
It wasn’t a command, but I distinctively remember the first time my cat growled at me for picking him up and I set him down immediately. Now it’s his way of telling me to let him down whenever. So I guess he taught me the command instead!
It’s nice to know when your pets are unhappy - they deserve respect too. However, my stupid dog growls when he’s unhappy and being picked up but also when he’s very happy being dried after a wet walk. So. Yeah. Not super helpful
“Car” When we are walking in our neighborhood (there are no sidewalks) I’ll say “car” and he’ll move into the grass area when a vehicle approaches.
My cat has learned how… delicious? ear wax is. I was itching my ear once, she started licking my finger, and now if I even raise my right hand near my head she flips out and runs up into my space just in case it’s ear wax time.
Note I don’t actually have a ton of ear wax or feed it to her, but something about my finger after I scratch my ear just drives her crazy.
Seriously though my ears are clean 😂
Cat seems to like strong body smells, we had an amazing cat when I grew up, completely black, short but very compact fur, with tuffs of hair on her ears, she was a mix between a siamese, norwegian forrest cat and swedish farm cat, she was an amazing huntress as well she caught a lot of annoying fieldfares snd mice, even came home with the tail of a squirrel once…
Anyway, she really liked the smell of my toenails and would even lick the clippings.
I wonder why…
She also LOVED my moms home made apple pie, she could resist meat, fish chicken and other stuff like that being left out, but apple pie… she just would not care and go straight for it, even if we were in the same room and she knew she wasn’t allowed on the table, that was the one thing she was obsessed with…
We put a battery powered doorbell on the door leading outside. My puppy Veronica quickly caught on but mostly rang it when excited rather than when she needed to go out.
But about six months ago it kicked in what it’s for and she’ll surprise us by going across the house to hit the bell and tell us she means business.
So it wasn’t exactly accidental but took a year.
Also same as yours, “Go get your sister.” She’ll go try and figure out what her older sister is up to and bring her back.
Yeah, the doggy door bell turned into the “Attention” bell instead of the “Outside” bell for a while for us.
Then when she realized we made her go out every time, she stopped using it and went back to a little wuffle.
For a while he learned that “this is the last one” meant we were about to stop playing fetch and he’d pretend to have noticed something odd or been distracted to avoid bringing the ball back and having it taken away. We worked through that one with some treats, so now “this is the last one” means “treat upcoming”.
We air dry our clothes on a balcony he doesn’t often get to access and he gets to walk out with us when we’re doing that and bark at birds and neighboring cats (which is why he isn’t allowed out there all the time). He’s learned to set up camp next to the door when he hears the washing machine beep after a wash cycle. Also when he sees us grab the container we use for the laundry, in case we’re about to go pick up a dry load.
Border Collie — go get mom. She’d go and find the now ex-wife.
And “Attack!” She’d just stand there and bark like mad.
The dog was sweet; and your biggest problem was she roll on her back and pee on the both of you.
My dog responds to swear words by doing the kinds stuff you see emotional support dogs do in videos- press on your chest, give you kisses, nuzzle your face, etc.
Except she’s small, blind, and a bit… intense, so she kinda launches into you if you’re sitting, with some intense affection.
IDK why. I guess we don’t swear very often, ao when we do, its special, and we swear with enough gusto for her to think we’re very, very upset.
My cat blesses people when they sneeze
I think we’re going to need a bit of an explanation here
Anytime someone sneezes, he runs into the room, makes eye contact, and meows kinda loud once. If you don’t acknowledge him, he may continue ‘murr’-ing if he likes you, until you do say thank you or pet him. It’s really fricken cute. I think it’s because my wife sneezes a lot and we’re very consistent with ‘bless you’ and 'thank you’s ourselves. Neither of us are religious or superstitious, so it’s kinda silly, but it seems polite
My Chihuahua mix is a very eager lapdog, couch potato, and bedbug. However if she is in any of those places and I say, ‘excuse me,’ or, ‘I gotta get up,’ then she knows it’s time for her to move and gets out of the way for me.
My cat Siegfrieda thinks that “bitte” (please) means “free petting”. That’s because I usually tell her bitte when she’s taking too long to obey the command. For example…
- Zizi! Komm nach Hause! (Zizi, come home!)
- [Siegfrieda ignores me to chase the shadow of a butterfly]
- Frieda, komm nach Hause. Bitte. (Frieda, come home. Please.
- Prrrwwwwn? [runs in my direction]
Not specifically a command, but my dog knows the sound of me taking my headset off. She figured out that me taking my headset off means I’m getting up, which means there’s a chance I’ll let her outside.
Mine has learned all the various ways people say “goodbye” at the end of a virtual meeting and gets really excited when she hears one of them. She knows it means I can pay attention to her now.
I train my cat to speak. I wish I knew it was forbidden cursed knowledge. She dose not shut up. If it’s 10am and im late on breakfas, she will meow non stop.
I can’t sleep in anymore.
My cat and I slow blink at each other a lot. She usually wants to eat breakfast on the catio, but it’s not fully screened in yet, so I would prefer she ate inside as it attracts other cats and sometimes ravens. I stand in the doorway and ask her to come in, but if she slow blinks and then keeps her eyes closed while still pointing her face at me I know she’s not coming in. That’s my signal to put down the damn cat food woman, it’s al fresco today!
Did I teach her “eyes closed for outside breakfast” or did she teach me “give up when I squinch my eyes closed at you”?
