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LakeArenal

(29,814 posts) Mon May 8, 2023, 03:57 PM May 2023

Are there some illiterate dogs. My dog has no vocabulary

After years he doesn’t respond to words like
Chow, cookie, toy, Dad.

I’m not sure he knows his name even.

On line talks about how some dogs have huge vocabularies. Nothing a out a seemingly learning disabled dog.

He’s not deaf. He’s perfect otherwise. He can be trained by facial expressions, pointing fingers, and tone.

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Are there some illiterate dogs. My dog has no vocabulary (Original Post) LakeArenal May 2023 OP

Are you sure he's not deaf? Sanity Claws May 2023 #1

He responds to whistles. When we talk about him his ears turn to us. LakeArenal May 2023 #3

Yes. He hears plenty. Especially the cheese wrapper LakeArenal May 2023 #5

You should have read more to him as a pupoy intrepidity May 2023 #2

I should have. Obviously home schooling does not work. LakeArenal May 2023 #6

Now THAT MOMFUDSKI May 2023 #7

Now THAT MOMFUDSKI May 2023 #8

Are the Duzy's still around? Would definitely nominate Hestia May 2023 #12

Dogs like people are not all equal. There was Albert Einstein, doc03 May 2023 #4

Who was the smart one? GeoWilliam750 May 2023 #9

Hint it wasn't me. nt doc03 May 2023 #11

Also possible that you are speaking to him in a foreign language.... GeoWilliam750 May 2023 #10

My DH says he is either part cat - knows what you are saying but just doesn't care - or depending Hestia May 2023 #13

Perhaps he thinks that you have nothing avebury May 2023 #14

There you are wrong. LakeArenal May 2023 #15

Sanity Claws

(22,038 posts)

1. Are you sure he's not deaf?

Reply to LakeArenal (Original post)

Mon May 8, 2023, 03:59 PM

May 2023

I had a cat that seemed like a slow-learner. Later I realized that she must be deaf.

LakeArenal

(29,814 posts)

3. He responds to whistles. When we talk about him his ears turn to us.

Reply to Sanity Claws (Reply #1)

Mon May 8, 2023, 04:33 PM

May 2023

Oh…when the neighbor dogs bark he hears that.

LakeArenal

(29,814 posts)

5. Yes. He hears plenty. Especially the cheese wrapper

Reply to Sanity Claws (Reply #1)

Mon May 8, 2023, 04:35 PM

May 2023

intrepidity

(7,894 posts)

2. You should have read more to him as a pupoy

Reply to LakeArenal (Original post)

Mon May 8, 2023, 04:03 PM

May 2023

Kidding, lol....

But it is an interesting question. I mean, why not? Matbe he's not deaf, but hard of hearing?

LakeArenal

(29,814 posts)

6. I should have. Obviously home schooling does not work.

Reply to intrepidity (Reply #2)

Mon May 8, 2023, 04:47 PM

May 2023

MOMFUDSKI

(7,080 posts)

7. Now THAT

Reply to intrepidity (Reply #2)

Mon May 8, 2023, 05:02 PM

May 2023

is F U N N Y !!!

MOMFUDSKI

(7,080 posts)

8. Now THAT

Reply to intrepidity (Reply #2)

Mon May 8, 2023, 05:02 PM

May 2023

is F U N N Y !!!

Hestia

(3,818 posts)

12. Are the Duzy's still around? Would definitely nominate

Reply to MOMFUDSKI (Reply #8)

Mon May 8, 2023, 09:19 PM

May 2023

doc03

(36,713 posts)

4. Dogs like people are not all equal. There was Albert Einstein,

Reply to LakeArenal (Original post)

Mon May 8, 2023, 04:35 PM

May 2023

Nicola Tesla and there is me.

GeoWilliam750

(2,540 posts)

9. Who was the smart one?

Reply to doc03 (Reply #4)

Mon May 8, 2023, 05:19 PM

May 2023

doc03

(36,713 posts)

11. Hint it wasn't me. nt

Reply to GeoWilliam750 (Reply #9)

Mon May 8, 2023, 05:57 PM

May 2023

GeoWilliam750

(2,540 posts)

10. Also possible that you are speaking to him in a foreign language....

Reply to doc03 (Reply #4)

Mon May 8, 2023, 05:20 PM

May 2023

Hestia

(3,818 posts)

13. My DH says he is either part cat - knows what you are saying but just doesn't care - or depending

Reply to LakeArenal (Original post)

Mon May 8, 2023, 09:45 PM

May 2023

on the breed, maybe you speaking the wrong language, i.e., Chow-Chow, Chinese or German Shepherd, German, etc., though if he is older he should have picked up on some English by now...

avebury

(11,073 posts)

14. Perhaps he thinks that you have nothing

Reply to LakeArenal (Original post)

Tue May 9, 2023, 06:41 AM

May 2023

interesting enough to hold his attention?

LakeArenal

(29,814 posts)

15. There you are wrong.

Reply to avebury (Reply #14)

Tue May 9, 2023, 09:57 AM

May 2023

There are five sleeping areas, regular meals, two easy chairs, a fenced in yard and he’s king!

Oh that’s it. He’s king. We are but underlings.

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