What did she say?

I heard one person talk to her dog like she wanted it to say something to her.
 
It was something like: 
Person "Now you better give me a good answer to why you did that"
dog- just stared
Person "If you don't answer me now your not getting your dinner tonight"
Dog- sighed
Person "don't be a smart allic, I want an answer now!"
 
Urr..

Oh ya, and the people that talked to there dogs like:

person: why did you trip me? i told you not to trip me!

Is there a happy-medium here!!??

hehe
 
One day at the dog park there was this guy with his cocker spaniel puppy- he was trying to get her to heel or sit or wait or something and but it was too excited and running around- I was down at the other end of the park but could still hear him yelling "SIT! NO- LISTEN! I SAID SIT! WHY WON"T YOU LISTEN TO ME!"
 
He said that he had wanted to get a pittie instead of a cocker spaniel too [&:]...
 
I think as long as you don't talk to a dog as if they speak fluent english, and are able to reply then it's okay...

ORIGINAL: Xebby

I heard one person talk to her dog like she wanted it to say something to her.

It was something like: 
Person "Now you better give me a good answer to why you did that"
dog- just stared
Person "If you don't answer me now your not getting your dinner tonight"
Dog- sighed
Person "don't be a smart allic, I want an answer now!"

Urr..

 
HAHAHA LOL!!  I would have been laughing in that woman's face!

On the one hand, I always make a point of teaching people that part of training their dog is to use specific commands, not have lengthy conversations with their dogs that obviously the dogs don't understand. "Heel!" is good. "Honey, you have to walk by my side because I don't want you pulling me down the street and it makes me look bad if you're lunging at the end of the leash and choking, which you wouldn't do if you didn't keep pulling" is not so helpful.

That said, even knowing this, I have been known to engage in the occasional "conversation" with my fur girl. I tell her about my day, she yaps back about hers. Logically, I know when I say, "If you're a good girl and don't chase your cats and give Mommy five minutes to check her e-mail, then I will take you to the park," what she really hears is "Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah PARK!!"

But the way she "listens" so intently and cocks her head every other sentence, she makes you FEEL like she's listening to every word.

And of course she's a mal mix, which means sometimes she actually DOES get stuff that's almost scary (like the time I told her we couldn't go to class until I dried my hair, and she shocked the life out of me by going off to get the hairdryer and dropping it at my feet).

But I think the logical part of us that knows our dogs aren't really conversationally fluent is sometimes overshadowed by the part that just likes to talk to an audience that appears perpetually riveted. I mean, I'd be leaping for joy if I could get HALF that attention and interest from my BF!

Yeah, it sometimes gets out of control, but I do have to plead guilty to the occasional doggie dialogue. Then again, living alone, sometimes it's the closest thing to conversation I'm going to get!

Jan

It was so funny, almost after I posted on this my mom calls me and tells me she thinks the dog spoke to her.  She said the dog said "let me out of the garage"  so she pressed the garage opener on the wall to open the garage door.  She called me back to say it was my sister in the car yelling for my mom to open the garage door because the batteries were dead in the remote.  My mom didn't see her sitting in the car and thought it was the dog speeking.

ORIGINAL: Xebby

It was so funny, almost after I posted on this my mom calls me and tells me she thinks the dog spoke to her.  She said the dog said "let me out of the garage"  so she pressed the garage opener on the wall to open the garage door.  She called me back to say it was my sister in the car yelling for my mom to open the garage door because the batteries were dead in the remote.  My mom didn't see her sitting in the car and thought it was the dog speeking.

omg, how funny!

Ever since my husband started working away from home I have noticed that I am talking to my dogs a little more than usual.  I know that they can't understand me, but for some reason I can't help it![]
 

ORIGINAL: caprice

Ever since my husband started working away from home I have noticed that I am talking to my dogs a little more than usual.  I know that they can't understand me, but for some reason I can't help it![]

 
I do the same thing! My husband is deployed and I find myself carrying on whole conversations with my dogs. Both sides of the conversation! The dogs just look at me like "what the heck is mom saying? she's lost it since dad left?"

Toka makes startling connections too.  A few weeks ago I was looking for the cat, saying kitty, kitty rather than her name, and Toka turned around and stared behind a bureau, guess where the cat was... I wasn't even really talking to Toka, she just makes weird connections all the time.  Since then I can ask her to find the kitty.  So Toka makes up some of her own commands...[sm=rofl.gif]

And yes, I'm guilty of talking whole sentences, though I try to use one word commands. 

my dog shocked me one day when he was looking for one of his toys, i told him he left it upstairs not really expecting he would know what i said but he ran right up there and found it.
 
i think im one of "those" people though, i talk to my dog alot, but i dont really expect him to talk back or anything, i just like to talk to him.  my daughter on the other hand i think communicates just fine,  they bark back and forth.

Just don't baby talk the X-man, he doesn't appreciate it at all and it kind of freaks him out.

I talk and sing to my dogs all the time. I'm not ashamed to admit it. Dugan, my red poodle has been known to talk to himself! When he was a puppy he would talk to himself in the mirror. It was very funny. He still is very vocal. When he is playing with Maddie he is always making noises and communicating his demands. When he is tired and is stretching he will groan and moan like a human. I actually heard him howl the other night. I didn't know Poodles did that. My dog can not only talk, he can also sing. 

I think dogs do understand a lot of words you say to a certain extent like "ball" "ride in the car" "squirrel" and things like that, but i think it's so funny when you are talking to them, cocking their heads!