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BS: Can Dogs Talk

Donuel 18 Jan 25 - 07:00 AM
Mr Red 18 Jan 25 - 10:48 AM
Donuel 18 Jan 25 - 11:35 AM
MaJoC the Filk 19 Jan 25 - 05:09 PM
Doug Chadwick 19 Jan 25 - 05:55 PM
Mr Red 22 Jan 25 - 02:42 PM
Donuel 23 Jan 25 - 08:30 AM
keberoxu 26 Jan 25 - 09:21 AM
keberoxu 30 Jan 25 - 07:11 PM
Donuel 31 Jan 25 - 07:27 AM
gillymor 31 Jan 25 - 10:32 AM
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MaJoC the Filk 02 Feb 25 - 10:20 AM
Donuel 02 Feb 25 - 10:46 AM
Bill D 02 Feb 25 - 10:56 AM
Joe Offer 02 Feb 25 - 12:23 PM
Donuel 05 Feb 25 - 08:04 AM
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An Buachaill Caol Dubh 10 Feb 25 - 10:23 AM
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Subject: BS: CAN DOGS TALK
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jan 25 - 07:00 AM

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dogs-really-talk-owners-using-152339869.html


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Subject: RE: BS: CAN DOGS TALK
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Jan 25 - 10:48 AM

Communicate? Yes
Think? depends on the mutt
listen? as long as food is attached
Talk? er............ define talk


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Subject: RE: BS: CAN DOGS TALK
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jan 25 - 11:35 AM

Pressing word buttons like the facilitated communication by primates.


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Subject: RE: BS: Can Dogs Talk
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 19 Jan 25 - 05:09 PM

Reminds me of:

Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.
                -- Edsger W. Dijkstra


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Subject: RE: BS: Can Dogs Talk
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 19 Jan 25 - 05:55 PM

I used to have an Old English Sheepdog who mostly got his own way by sitting staring at me. If I didn't react quickly enough, he would resort to 'talking' just like Scooby Doo.

DC


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Subject: RE: BS: Can Dogs Talk
From: Mr Red
Date: 22 Jan 25 - 02:42 PM

Donuel
Pressing buttons isn't the dog talking, it is the button talking. The dog is associating the colour with an outcome or response. And it has to be learned. I have seen cats do it, though it usually results in a button saying "food" more often than not.

I have heard many stories about sheepdogs responding to situations without command. And my GF's Jack Russel used to sleep on her aged father's bed and one night she started barking, right out of character, so we went to see him fallen out of bed. No training, just loyalty and thinking, and communicating.


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Subject: RE: BS: Can Dogs Talk
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 25 - 08:30 AM

Dogs have more loyalty and thinking than a 2 year old human child.
They seem to have less talking ability.


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Subject: RE: BS: Can Dogs Talk
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jan 25 - 09:21 AM

I don't know about talking, but they certainly can and do listen.


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Subject: RE: BS: Can Dogs Talk
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Jan 25 - 07:11 PM

And in movies like "Babe", they can talk.


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Subject: RE: BS: Can Dogs Talk
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jan 25 - 07:27 AM

Dogs vocalize sighs, different warnings, and excitement.


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Subject: RE: BS: Can Dogs Talk
From: gillymor
Date: 31 Jan 25 - 10:32 AM

If they could talk I'm sure they'd have a few choice words to say about neutering, leash laws and the exalted position of cats in the pet world.


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Subject: RE: BS: Can Dogs Talk
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 31 Jan 25 - 03:25 PM

there was that dog on the Esther Rantzen programme who could say "sausages".


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Subject: RE: BS: Can Dogs Talk
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 02 Feb 25 - 10:20 AM

> "sausages"

A combination of throat massage (by the owner) and wishful thinking (ditto). I'm not surprised it growled.


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Subject: RE: BS: Can Dogs Talk
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Feb 25 - 10:46 AM

I must say I am not being entirely satirical
that you are here today because of thousands
to near-impossible-infinite miracles.
Some you can remember but most are secret.
It's just accidental you are not an egret.
It is not that odd for a dog to talk
You get their point when they need a walk

Rover


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Subject: RE: BS: Can Dogs Talk
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Feb 25 - 10:56 AM

I asked a dog what the outside of a tree was called.
He said "bark"
I asked him where his favorite toy, a ball, was.
He said "Roof, roof."


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Subject: RE: BS: Can Dogs Talk
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Feb 25 - 12:23 PM

In Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, Elizabeth's dog Six-Thirty is able to learn almost 1,000 words. Elizabeth teaches him the words, and he talks to her like a child.

I speak to my dog in complete sentences, and he seems to understand every word. His responses are not very complex, though.

And I highly recommend the book.

-Joe-


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Subject: RE: BS: Can Dogs Talk
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Feb 25 - 08:04 AM

Not only that, dogs seem to be multilingual depending upon what country they reside.


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Subject: RE: BS: Can Dogs Talk
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Feb 25 - 03:06 PM

It also goes without saying that
some dogs vocalize far more than others do.
The little lap dogs can be yappy,
while a golden retriever rarely raises its voice.


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Subject: RE: BS: Can Dogs Talk
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 06 Feb 25 - 10:31 AM

> dogs seem to be multilingual

Of the dogs which belonged to one of Herself's relations in Belgium, one could be addressed in Belgian or Flemish, and the other refused to understand anything not said in French, due to their respective upbringings. The first, if addressed in German, would go for you.


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Subject: RE: BS: Can Dogs Talk
From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
Date: 10 Feb 25 - 10:23 AM

Apropos, a book I really liked, long years ago, is "Archimedes and the Seagle" (sic) by John Ireland. The first sentence is memorable:

"I wrote this book to show what dogs can do."

ABCD


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Subject: RE: BS: Can Dogs Talk
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Feb 25 - 07:26 AM

It is said wolves are smarter than dogs and many wolves self-domesticated to become dogs. I think dogs just have a different kind of empathetic intelligence and are not more stupid. In other words, wolves did not dumb down to make a partnership with humans.
But I suppose it depends upon how stupid the human is.


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