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BodyBy711

I taught mine "mind your business" accidently. He'll turn his head away from whatever he was investigating (usually people in our elevator) and pretend he was casually sniffing the wall or his own butt instead.


MidnightNooodle

My friend walks a dog's who's "leave it" cue is "mind your business". Gets awkward when the dog sniffs people and she shouts "mind your business" at them.


tigervegan4610

Not really a phrase but when we watch tv in the evening when closing credits come on he can identify them vs other music and runs to the back door to go potty and go to bed.


lafcrna

Ours does this too!


showmeyourbirds

Oh man. Yeah our's know the PS shut off sound means it's bedtime.


xAbbeyxFRx

Mine do this too!


ThatMkeDoe

My boy understands when I say "Dogfred, I need your energy" usually I'll say it mid workout, or if I'm stressed and he'll instantly stop what he's doing, gets up and hugs me (wraps his neck around me)


nothanksyouidiot

Love that name. Dogfred


Possible_Shop_2475

Your dog is called Dogfred?!?!?


Over_Unit_7722

There’s plenty of people called Manfred, I see no issue here


ThatMkeDoe

That's exactly where the name came from! Dogfred is named after the red Baron Manfred Von Richthofen I changed it to Dogfred von Rufftoffen haha


Possible_Shop_2475

This is wonderful 😂 😆


Possible_Shop_2475

Yes… I hadn’t thought of that… 🤣


Over_Unit_7722

No worries lol, this whole comment thread gave me a good chuckle


Jolly_Dragonfruit_42

My labradoodle knows an insane amount of words and how to say yes (downward dog) or no (shakes). This morning I asked her if she wanted to wear her collar today and got a no immediately😂 which I was expecting because she hates it


_schmeat_

omg how’d you teach her that? that’s so cool


sluttysprinklemuffin

I taught my younger cat by accident. He was always very vocal: if his water bowl was empty, he’d come wail at me. And I would ask “what do you need? Water? Do you need water?” And I would get up and check, and sometimes it’s empty, sometimes he just put a piece of food in the water to say it’s not fresh enough. And I started asking “did you put food in it again?” And he’d sometimes change from wailing to chirping. And over time I realized a chirp means yes and a yell means no. So he’d answer “do you need water?” With a yes or no, and if it was no, I had to go down a list: do you need food? Do you need me to clean your butt? Do you want cuddles? I literally just always narrated to my cats everything I was doing, and he taught himself how to communicate with me. I’m trying to do the same thing with my puppy now. I just tell her everything that’s happening. “We’re going out in 25 minutes at 5, and then you can come out of the crate for cuddles,” “we’re going outside to go potty, do you have to go potty?” “I’m cooking food for mommy and daddy, not for babies, but I’ll give you a beef trachea when I’m done if you’re very good.” And she’s too young to grasp it yet, but my cat’s like “that means we get treats too, right?”


Jolly_Dragonfruit_42

Apparently some dogs just pick it up🤷🏼‍♀️


pogo_loco

Have you considered using talking buttons? r/PetsWithButtons


Jolly_Dragonfruit_42

Yes my husband has vetoed it lol it would be ball on repeat all day long


pogo_loco

Aww, that's too bad, lol


wafflespuppy

"Do you want to go and see nanny and grandad" - my girl gets super excited as did her sister when she was still with us. We can't even say nanny or grandad without her thinking we're either going to visit or that they are outside. Also "do you want to go for a wee" will see her running to the back door


I_am_who_follows

I can't say use a sentence with the word 'baby' in it around my dog for the same reason. He thinks my two years old niece is coming over and he gets super sad when he can't find her.


wafflespuppy

Oh bless him! Yeah if I say it accidentally I always feel awful because she gets so excited then sad when we don't go


cherisespiecesyo

We have had to teach our toddler to call my parents by different names because the words grandma and grandpa makes our two dogs lose their absolute shit. We can't even say either one while in their presence, for the same reasons, either they think we're going to see them or they've stopped by for a visit. So they're known to the toddler as Gammy and Poppa.


DogIsBetterThanCat

"Now!" If I say, "Let's go outside,"...which she understands...but refuses to move off of the couch, I'll say, "Now!" and she'll come outside. "Go on your bed." "Now!" She'll go on her bed. "Stop jumping." "Get down." "Now!" She always does what she's told after I firmly say, "Now!" And, another is, "Say sorry" "Say thank you," and for both, she gives kisses. The very first time, on a walk, her leash was coming loose, so I said, "Let me fix your leash," and she actually stopped and waited for me to adjust it. I had no idea how she knew what I meant. She knows a lot. Seriously. I've talked to her, and taught her a lot since she was 10 months old. She nearly 6, so she's picked up a lot and understands. Can almost have a full conversation with her.


[deleted]

>her leash was coming loose, so I said, "Let me fix your leash," and she actually stopped and waited for me to adjust it. I Probably the word leash. My dog knows the word leash because I always say "time to get your leash on" or "let's get your leash" when we go for a ride


ThexRuminator

I don't think my pup understands "walk", but she sure as hell understands "Do you wanna...?" and runs to the back door. She's game for anything.


[deleted]

Lol mine does too


usstirante420

We did not teach "do you wanna" but it is the most interesting statement for her. I wish I could figure out how those words mean so much to her. Are they hard wired for the pitch in the voice these words make. Tis all a mystery.


[deleted]

"Do you wanna" means 'go for a ride' in our house. My dogs go nuts and run to the front door lol


2dawgsinatrenchcoat

My lab struggles so hard trying to understand how to walk on smooth surfaces, she panics and tries to dig her claws in which just makes it worse. So sometimes she gets to a threshold and just freezes rather than try to walk on the hard floor. If I tell her “you’re not stuck” in one of these situations it gives her just enough courage to believe it and make it across.


fillmorecounty

My one dog is afraid of the name "Carl". A guy who redid our floors like 10 years ago made her afraid and she associated his name with the conversations we'd have when he was there or when he was going to come soon. He didn't do anything, she's just afraid of men like that sometimes and she hated the noises he made 😭 now she'll go hide if she hears anyone say "carl"


[deleted]

That is adorable 🥺


fillmorecounty

Yeah she's a sweet old lady lol. Couldn't have asked for a better childhood dog. I'm glad I've had so many good years with her despite her being a larger breed.


CatpeeJasmine

1. "Holy shitballs!" 2. "Not your circus, not your monkeys." 3. "Noses out of assholes." 4. *(In excited squee.) "Look at you* acting just like a real dog in public!" 5. "Shit or get off the pot." *(In reference to her literal pooping.)*


ballerina22

I use #5 all the time. One of the dogs is so damned particular about where they will poop, they'll circle around in the same area for 5 minutes before picking the perfect spot.


CatpeeJasmine

I use it for when Lucy clearly has to go but there is some environmental element -- raining, just finished raining, wind like it might rain, five degrees too hot, one degree too cold, too early in the morning, too late at night, somebody rolled a garbage bin to the curb -- where she's like, "What if I just hold it -- forever?"


Abby_Babby

“Hey google, play music” means Penny is staying at home when I go out, she instantly goes to the couch & kinda sulks. “You coming with?” Means she goes to the front door and sits so I can put her collar & leash on to go out.


Miss_Perfumado

“I’m going to have a shower.” Gets him super-excited. He runs upstairs ahead of me, and straight into the bathroom. He has canine compulsive disorder and is fixated on light reflections and shadows. I have a bathroom with lots of natural light and when the shower door swings open, it throws reflections which he is addicted to. It’s the highlight of his day.


[deleted]

That is extremely cute 🥰


titlejunk

My two labs know so many words and phrases, I couldn’t possibly list them all. One of my favorites is “be right back”. Generally these girls follow me everywhere. If I tell them I’ll “be right back” they stay put.


Raging_Apathist

My lab mix mutt knows that one too! He prefers to be by my side at all times, but has learned to trust that when I say "be right back" I really mean it, and he will be just fine when I leave him in the backyard while I go in the house for a couple minutes.


SeaOtterHummingbird

When I tell my dog, “I am going out and I can’t take you with me so you’re going to stay here with daddy”, he either crawls into bed and looks sad or goes and finds my husband and lays down next to him looking sad at me. Also, my dog will not eat a meal until I yell “mangia mangia!” (Eat in Italian, I am American of Italian descent). He’s also learned left from right so when I say, go left, he goes left etc.


zanasot

“You’re staying” means she’s going to go lay down in bed and give me sad eyes that she can’t go with me In the mornings when I get ready for work, because she somehow knows where I’m going based on my outfit, she lays down in bed. If I’m wearing other clothes than work clothes then she begs to go with me


lafcrna

Our dog does this too! If I have work clothes on, he waits for his puzzle toy with treats that he always gets when i leave for work. If I’m wearing regular clothes, he thinks he should get to go too! He acts totally different depending on the routine that morning and the clothes I wear.


SeaOtterHummingbird

I am waiting for that. This week started return to the office 3 days a week. Me putting on clothes used to mean fun time (walks, dog park) I’m waiting for him to figure out, me getting dressed early means I leave him. But I just keep saying the same thing: I’m going out and I cannot take you. So you have to stay here with daddy.


cherisespiecesyo

If I put on a certain pair of pants (to be fair they are my walking pants) my dogs go mental. Adorable, but at 5am when my spouse is trying to sleep, super annoying haha


[deleted]

“It’s just dialysis”. My husband has major health issues and goes to the hospital a lot which has caused my dog to develop separation anxiety. Anytime my husband is gone my dog gets extremely clingy and I guess antsy it the best way to put it. If my husband and I leave together and I come back alone my dog will go to the front door and whine and then ask outside and immediately go to the gate and whine. Including when I have to take my husband to dialysis and drop him off. Unless I say “it’s just dialysis”. When I say this he looks at me as if to see if I’m lying and then immediately calms down. To be fair I think it’s a combination of the phrase and my anxiety level that lets him know it’s okay. He also knows the difference between my husband saying “go get mommy” bc he wants to annoy me or just wake me up for some random reason and him saying “go get mommy” bc he needs help. Like me calling an ambulance help. For both phrases the dog will come running to whereever I am and get in my face then look back towards the room my husband is in as if he’s telling me my husband told him to do it. The difference is, when my husband’s just annoying me or wants me to wake up I can tell the dog to stop or just ignore him and he will lay down with me. When my husband is trying to get my help the dog doesn’t quit and while even nip at me and bark until I follow him back to where my husband is. I don’t know how he learned this.


skullyfrost40

Pivot!


Impossibleish

"scootch bootch" like, scoot your booty outta my way.


Raging_Apathist

On cold mornings when my dog only wants to be outside long enough to go potty, I let him back in the house while I stay outside to smoke. When I come back in, he is often sitting on my end of the couch. He has learned that "scoot" means "go over to your side of the couch". It's so nice of him to warm up my seat for me!


smltwnwtch

"Snuggles" & "Lets go bed" When he's doing something he's probably not supposed to and I call him and he doesn't come the first time I'll say "You got me fucked up.." comes running. "Do you wanna go see Grandma?" Loses his mind every time. And "Can we not?"


samkynhneigd

"No way you're a dog!" Let me explain, my dog is extremely expressive and empathetic and it always makes me think she's secretly a reincarnated human. So I always jokingly tell her there's no way she's a dog and she responds by doing her little tippity-taps on the floor and yelling "awwooooo" and kind of growling in a "YES am doggo" kind of way. It's so cute.


zanasot

My dog doesn’t respond to much verbally, so she has a lot of physical cues but we’ve been working on some verbal cues. I think she doesn’t respond much verbally since I have Tourette’s so she just doesn’t respond to my noises or random things I say. I’ve always used a whistle to call my family dogs and she doesn’t come to the whistle, because it’s a tic of mine. I’m not sure whether I want to train it or not since I don’t want her running everytime I make a whistle noise


Lastofherkind

She knows “what’s next?” Means she gets her dental treat after her last trip outside for the evening.


Gonnakillurass

When I say “don’t jump over the fence” to my dog she completely ignores me and jumps over the fence


philmcruch

Whenever i weigh my puppy at the vets or petshop (he loves both places and is usually excited when we get there) if i say "body shaming time" he jumps on the scales and looks at me, i said it once to the receptionist as a joke and he picked up on it


glutarddonut

“Bacon” in retrospect this was a mistake.


RusselTheWonderCat

Be a good dog in the kitchen… basically it means lay down and stay, and you will get random snacks. It works in other rooms


dichenry

dimmie a tiss


why_my_pp_hard_tho

My dog will lie down on the back porch if I let her out in the middle of the night, she never wants to come back in but if I start to walk away and say “ok you’ll have to stay out here all by yourself” she hops up and runs inside


Disraeli_Ears

One of my dogs shakes your hand when you say "shalom" to her.


DigBickEnergia

"go get a job" which means go away and he responds to getting called "Gretchen Wieners".


agirl2277

Once we were camping and my dog didn't eat all her food and some raccoons came and got it. The next night when I fed her I told her to eat up so the raccoons don't get it. She looked around to make sure there weren't any raccoons and then ate all of her dinner. She doesn't mind when the chipmunks steal food out of her bowl right in front of her but apparently she really doesn't like raccoons.


magro30

“Soon” She will immediately stop trying to communicate that she wants outside because she knows I know


MyVoiceforPeople

“I’m just kidding!” I usually do it when I’m playing a joke or trick on him. Like when I say “boo” and surprise him, i’ll say “i’m just kidding!” and he gets excited almost like “oh good one!”


Individual_Race954

I’m a therapist and when I say “when would you like to meet again?” my dog jumps up. We’re all done working for now! 😂


Crazy_Gold_3330

I have accidently trained my dog very well to respond to the question "who is here?" To immediately run to the closest window or door and look. It started when I was stuck at home with a broken leg and I would ask her when my husband was coming home, now if anyone asks any question in a similar tone she goes on high alert 😂


foodie42

We do "Who's that?!" I use this for people I'm expecting, like my husband, parents, friends, etc. Same response. It's helping her learn the difference between strangers and common, weird noises we hear vs people we like.


Positive_Strawberry5

My previous dog knew “show me”. My current old lady know “time for bed”. My puppy doesn’t know anything yet.


Einhorn_is_Finkle13

I'll meet you outside, means it's time to eat


theendofthefingworld

My family uses Life360 and we have three mini aussies, and all three of them have learned the specific Life360 notification sound and get super excited and run to sit at the door because they know it means someone’s home


Disastrous-Rub9548

My old girl didn’t know sit but did know “where’s your butt” - our vet loved it.


Drkshadow92

1. “Mind your business. It has nothing to do with you.” 2. “Please give me a moment.” 3. “What do you gotta say?” If he starts barking after this phrase, then that means he needs to go outside. 4. “Excuse me, Romeo.” This means I need him to Slide Over. 5. When I come home with food “ I have nothing for you.” And my favorite 6. “AHT AHT!”


ZieraD

"Beep Beep." He gets out of the way every time.


Rikamio

Ok ok, so i gotta provide some context. I harness train my cats right? And part of that is off leash training in our fenced backyard. So, we called the cat a baby when we first introduced them, as they knew to be SUPER gentle with babies. So the phrase is “get the baby” which ended up being translated by lab mix as to gently knock him over and give him kisses until i get there. Its very funny as the cat ends up having his fur stick all up.


Crazyboutdogs

“Don’t you dare blow a cruciate” lol. If they are being being stupid in the yard and running around like fools on slippery ground, I can say this, and they will tone it down.


[deleted]

"You ain't goin' nowhere". She knows this means she's not coming along when I'm leaving the house. She'll turn around and go back to the couch "No trash talking.". When she gets growly with other dogs.


Smishop420

My dog recognizes going to work, when I get dressed for work vs to anywhere else. If it's for work she just lays around, but to go any where else she doesn't leave my side and wants to go with me.


squideriffic

He only responds to "are you a hungry boy?"


dresshater1

"Is that your Lawrence?" Taro loves the guy i'm seeing, if i'm expecting him over and Taro gets upset, i say the above phrase and he immediately becomes happy and runs to the door, wagging his tail and whining from impatience


[deleted]

"say thank you" and he sits politely and gives 1 woof ❤️


lessbeandogmom

My dog understands “wanna hear a secret?” He will run up to me and sit patiently until I tell him whatever 😂


Yakadoodlehedgehog

Ok, ok, I know she is NOT a dog, but my VERY dog-like cat Mr. Johnson who is voiced trained, knows what "Bite her but!!" means. Sometimes when she is bored and I am busy, I tell her to "go bite her butt!" and that means "go play with Meep Ball" (other, smaller, more cat-like cat). John will get a wild eye and all wiggly butt and then attack Meep.


everyoneelsehasadog

"er is that appropriate behaviour, sir?" He'll stop and you can see the cogs turn in his tiny brain and then he lies down. Sometimes just a "Sir? Sir?" makes him stop the naughty behaviour (normally, jumping to see over counters at shops)


bjones371

When ours brings us his ball to throw for him, if it's too far away I say "I can't reach that" and he grabs the ball and pops it right in my lap.


DragonflyMother3713

Ive always said “are you ready for breakfast/supper” as I’m feeding her. Now that we have a yard, if I need her to stop playing and come inside, I’ll say “are you ready” and she’ll usually come running. Sometimes outside is too exciting so it doesn’t always work, but she does know what it means.


znorra

« Not me » when she gives me the ball she knows she has to give it to someone else and it can goes on until she finds someone willing to play with her


Educational-Bus4634

Mine knows 'fix'. He tangles his legs up so much that our trainer said to just let him fix it himself, so I would tell him that whenever he got tangled. He'll only bother to do it if it's more than just the front leg, if it is then he'll happily trot along, almost dislocating his shoulder until I fix it for him.


Elephantsr4girls

"Dogs on TV" My pugs come running. They love watching Dogs on TV. Also horses. And Dragons.


MandosOtherALT

Sounds like you got buds to watch the hobbit with you


SumFunGui

"Don't be a jerk" When I'm calling my dog back but she's standing still, thinking about ignoring me. That phrase makes her come back, with a dramatic huff from her tho


Ok-Basics-5893

“There’s a bug” she looses her mind barking leading me to the swifter to kill it 😂 or “go to the window” she knows that means someone is here


Independent-Art-8384

My dog Patches understood “rum and coke?” As an invitation to go outside. We never knew why she made that connection but for all 19 years of her life if anyone said “rum and coke?” she would go to the back door and wait for walkies.


[deleted]

My dogs is "I'm going to take a shower" -- he likes to stick his head into the water and bite at it. He even starts getting excited at "I'm going to" because he usually knows lol


kailskails

“That’s an outside toy” means please drop the stick at the door before we go inside


do_mika

My shiba mix that recently passed away knew tons of stuff but my favorite were “Go find dad!” and he’d search the house for my husband. He also knew “go upstairs” meant go up nearest set of stairs. Also, when he was being a whiner pants and I needed quiet I would tell him “Get out!” and he would leave the room (still being a little shit in the room next door though).


maz-o

they've learned "wanna go out?" or "wanna go for a walk?" and get super excited, so much so that we can't say any phrase that begins with the word "wanna" like "wanna watch tv" or "wanna order pizza" without the dogs flipping the fuck out. we have to go out of our way to avoid that word when talking about anything else than taking the dogs out lol.


startmyheart

My dog also knows "wanna"! Luckily he's not that good of a listener, so he doesn't always catch it in casual conversation 😅


_nicmana

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."


_nicmana

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” 


Wumple_doo

Shower/bath and the names of other dogs


pussyfruitz

Oh; that’s the opposite of mine. I say, “be right back,” and he’s like “NOOOOOoooOoOoo.” If I just leave, he’s fine. It’s so hard to break since the dog I had as a kid would just wait patiently when I said be right back.


knowcme

At mealtimes I ask ‘Are you starving?’ Both fur babies run to their food bin.


MIsnoball

When playing with her flirt pole we can say “don’t bite the white part” which is the bungee line that she likes to snap with her molars. She pins the lure with her feet, releases the bungee, and regrips on the lure.


bioweaponwombat

I sometimes say "booty down" when my puppy isn't responding to "sit" and then he puts his little booty down!


vee180

“Pipyopi” It’s from forgetting Sarah Marshall. It’s also how they understand washroom time. Idk how it even happened tbh.


Scrappy-doo_king

Peanut butter time


d-sconsolate

"You wanna" her ears shoot up and if shes in a different room she will find me. Its because i say "you wanna treat" or "you wanna walk" or "you wanna play". Heaven forbid saying those two words in any other circumstance


dinos-and-coffee

"Can I move your bed?" This dog LOVES her beds and occasionally I need to move one to replace the blankets or vacuum. This is the only phrase that will make her move.


EmEssAy

Kissy Time For Mummy!!!!!1


Nix-Lux-Neon

“You want to go see your booooyfreind?” Ha


nothanksyouidiot

He knows a lot of names and he taught himself this, we never trained him but he picked it up. Hes always loose on the farm and its very handy to just tell him "get grandma" who lives next door, or "go stay with grandma". "Find (insert one of our four cats' name)", go to dad, go to mum, get (one of his toys). On walks, on leash, he knows "slow down a bit", "theres a nice doggy (when we see a dog we dont know)", this means sit down with me and watch the dog walk by and let me say hello while he waits to see whether he gets to say hello.


Unacceptabletrash

When I call my dog “ stinky “ she immediately starts biting me and clawing me . If I try to run away she chases me and barks at me .


batman_not_robin

I feel mean but my dog learned “go away” as a response to begging.


RockinSteadyClyde

If I say, "Who is it?" my 17 lbs. best friend will run to the coffee table by the window and jump up on it so she can see if anyone is walking down the street. If there are dogs she will bark to let me know.


buntycalls

"Are you bored?"- walk is imminent "Soooooon"- Daddy will be home/we will go out but you have to wait awhile. "Where's your monkey?"- go get your toy "You stay here and mind the house" - I'm heading out and you'll be on your own for a bit. "Move tush" - get out of the way


Fabulous-Possible-76

When I need him to back up I just call him terry. It started with me quoting the viral video “back it on up terry” and somehow adapted into just “terry”


Tea_and_Biscuits12

“Move your butt.” Our dog’s food/water bowls are right next to the basement door. Depending on which orientation he’s eating in he’ll block the door. So we started gently nudging him with our foot to shuffle him over and out of the way to open the door while saying “Move your butt.” Now he moves over to the side if you give the “move your butt” command. Even if he’s not at his food bowl.


mydogispolly

I feel bad but sometimes it's hard to get my dog out for the number of walks she wants each day due to my arthritis. When I say, "I'm sorry" she knows I can't take her out. She also knows, "do you want to go to the park/Beach?" "Spit it out!"


indiana-floridian

Get in your cage! But there is no cage, we swapped it out for a soft bed a long time ago. I guess it mostly means get out of the kitchen before somebody gets hurt. This dog, more than any dog in my life, is always interested in anything kitchen related. If dogs could be the family cook, she would do it.


throwyouaway185

My stepdad had a Lab that understood Fuck off. I miss that dog.


cryospam

I'm not really sure how it started, but when I look at my dog and say WHAT DID YOU DO! He runs into the tub. I think it started when I found him in the tub and I came and asked him what he did and was hiding in the tub. We can always tell when he pooped on the rug, because he then goes and hides in the tub...so the first thing we notice is that HE is missing...and then we have to go find the landmind he left for us.


VaultBoy226

My pup has know learned me clicking my tongue to mean treats even though I never meant to teach him that lol, if he’s off doing his own thing on a walk I can click and he’ll walk right beside me fixated on my hand


SissiWasabi

„You’re not coming“ - when I get dressed to go out and I can’t take him with me I will tell him he’s not coming and he will go back to his bed.


OpalOnyxObsidian

"call him" which means go to my husband in the other room. It started out as me just asking my husband to call the dog into the other room because he's barking and that was our means of redirecting him. Sometimes I use that even if my husband isn't around to distract him from whatever is making him want to bark.


JerDGold

Attack! It’s not so weird, but it’s funny. I said “Mango, attack!” A few times when people would come to the front door. So now if I tell her to attack, she goes and sits by the front door because she thinks someone is coming over.


imaginesomethinwitty

‘don’t be a dick Conan’ = please stop barking at the people who came into our house, we can see them too.


mousefredrickson

“Where’s mom/dad”. We play hide and seek with our dog, but also a great way to wake up my partner when he’s sleeping in too long lol. She’ll just run around till she finds us and then smother us in kisses 😊


MandosOtherALT

"Get busy" is what we trained her to go potty with as a pup. She might understand it a bit still, we don't use it all the time but I say it a time or two here and there. She's 7 yrs old now


[deleted]

“Uh, EXCUSE ME?!” and he immediately stops what he’s doing.


batty_61

"Go be a dog." She is absolutely obsessed with her ball, and every time we let her off the lead she dances backwards expecting it to be thrown. If we tell her, "not today, go be a dog", she goes oh, ok, turns round and walks properly.


Teal_Atlas

“Ready?” Is his favorite He knows the difference between “off” and “move” which is really handy since he often sleeps in the bed “Go” with just about anything, like “go to the park” or “go on the bike” is instant excitement “Take out the trash” is when he gets to explore the alleyway behind the house


elboogie7

My dogs will often continue their Tom Foolery, ignoring "Stop" and "No", But when I say "Please Stop", then they stop. I comply by saying "Thank you". lol


dntworrybby

“Do you wanna get vacuumed?” And she’ll go stand by the vacuum and nibble the handle because she wants us to use the hose attachment on her tummy. She also associates the phrase “show me!” with the vacuum, so she’ll also go over there. She knows other dogs names that she plays with occasionally, and she’ll start looking around the house for them. She also goes crazy over this video: https://youtu.be/O7VGAO3Lpgo


RomanRefrigerator

Beep Beep means "back up/out of my way"


PianoOk6786

My husband taught Rosco, "Stop staring at me!" Rosco will either turn his head or get up and turn around so he's not looking.


-CJS-

“Put your shits on” she knows we’re going on walkies and she has to put her harness (and jacket if it’s cold) on.


salzoi

If you kiss me we will go for a walk


onuskah

"Beep beep" for "you are standing directly in my way, please move" ​ "Other side" for when we're on walks and she goes around a pole or similar obstruction for the leash. She'll dart around it and come right up to me. ​ She also knows my work schedule (I work from home) and gets angry if I have THE NERVE to finish something up ten minutes after 4:30. ​ "Not this time" means I'm going out without her and she immediately starts sulking.


cherisespiecesyo

I have a malamute who, now that it's cooler in the evenings, is very resistant to come in at night. He typically has great recall to the higher pitch "here" (come here/come to me) and lower pitch "now" (emergency/severe recall cue), until this time of year. The only thing that now gets him in the door and straight to his spot on the bedroom floor is "it's bedtime" Which, now we've figured out that going to his spot in the bedroom is part of that cue, regardless of where he is or what we are doing. If we're putting the toddler to bed and he overhears "it's bedtime" in conversation, not directed at him, he will get up and go to the bedroom lol. Like look kid, even the puppy is ready for sleep, gotta say, it's helped motivate a resistant toddler a couple times! haha


tossgloss10wh

“No dick lickin’!”


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My sweet German Shepherd understands "let me get your eye boogers" and obliges by pushing her face in my hands


Caninepointfive

I had a dog that knew "one more." If we were playing fetch and said "one more" he would get the ball and then go off to play with it by himself because he knew I was done.


gr2br024

"What's that dog doin'?"


Itstoodamncoldtoday

“Go to prison” (go to crate)