Words/commands your dog knows/their age and breed

[Chevron383]

Off the back of the talking dogs thread I thought it might be quite interesting to see how much our dogs know.

17 month old terrier/cocker Cross

-his name
-sit
-down
-wait
-off
-go pee
-onto your chair
-excuse me (and he moves out of the way of the door/gate)
-ds name
-dh name
-go find
-whats this? (On a walk and he comes for a treat)
-leave it
-drop
-walk

So 15 in total. I'm hoping he'll pick up more as he gets older.

[Sarahlou252]

Very clever Working Cocker, age four. List too long to mention, however when he was younger we would say 'do you want some dinner? Some water? Some carrot? It wasn't long before he started to respond to the word 'Some' !
So now if he hears the word 'Some' he thinks he's getting something nice!!

[Hovverry]

My dog knows many words, all the usual commands, all his toys etc. What surprises me is that he can pick out a significant word from a complete sentence and react accordingly. I talk to him a lot and he often knows what I mean without me specifically telling him.

[splishsplashsploosh]

Does anyone's dog wink at them when they need to go outside? Ours does this. She'll come and sit in front of you and wink. It's really helpful, not to mention quite cute!

[VitreousHumour]

//grin

[WeeMadArthur]

My 4 year old lab knows

Sit
Stay
Up
Down
Go to bed
Wait
Leave it
Drop
Paw
Kiss
Human (sits up and gives you both paws)
Tummy (for belly rubs)
Good girl (signal for a treat for good behaviour on a walk)
Go
This way
Find (family member, for hide and seek)
Get DS ( chasing in the park)
Heel
No
Cross (the road)
Walk
Park
Wee wee
Dinner
Get a drink
915 ( the time she gets her treat)
Treat
She has a decent vocabulary of food names (typically for a lab!) including apple, carrot, banana, pear, cucumber, porridge, cheese and chicken
She knows the names of six family members separately
She also has a really good internal clock and knows what time she should be getting any food, going for a walk, going to Nannas for Sunday lunch ( when we still went). It’s a real pain when the clock changes as she can be most insistent it’s time for food.

I have conversations with her as if she is a toddler, which probably helps. I think the breed does make a difference, some are more switched on and trainable than others. DDog is very food focussed so listens to me to see if there is any coming her way and when she learns a word related to food it sticks very quickly. And she is very biddable if she thinks she is going to be rewarded! I couldn’t have a collie though, I don’t want a dog that’s more intelligent than me!

[Pipandmum]

Two labradoodles, 9 and 11. They know to cone when called, off, go on (go pee), no, sit. The older one will get his ball if I say 'where's your ball'. That's it. Not really interested in them knowing anything else, so haven't trained them.

[GrumpyMiddleAgedWoman]

Moon, was Chaser the one who worked out that the new toy was called Darwin?

Bloody amazing, that.

[Moondust001]

PS - the toys also cost an arm and a leg!

[Moondust001]

Border Collie - 5 years

I can't list them all as I would be here all day, but he knows the names of 217 (and counting) toys/objects. That has been deliberate brain training for him. He's clever but not yet Chaser en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaser_(dog)

My lad can also make simple contructs (sentences) from words he knows and accurately guess at meanings. So, for example, if he has a pile of five objects, four that he knows and one that he doesn't, and I ask him to fetch the object he doesn't know, you can watch him think about what you have said, then almost unerringly decide to fetch the thing that he doesn't know the name of because it's the only thing in the pile that he doesn't have a word for.

But this takes a lot of time up - I talk to him constantly, and we play games throughout the day. It isn't achieved without effort.

[Crappyfridays7]

We did the hand signals too back when our last dog was small and I naturally use them for our wee pup raising my eyebrows seems to mean sit though.

Our 5 month old golden retriever knows
Off
Sit
Down
No
Come
Give
Wait
Ahaha- when mouthing
Mum/dad
Ball
Pig - toy
Tilly - kitten & friend
Biscuits
Busy busy - toilet

We are currently doing our puppy training classes via zoom as our face to face obs can’t go ahead so hopefully he’ll learn some more, he’s a bright dog mostly our old golden could be a bit daft and this one is the same but lovely, he’s having a cuddle just now as is our morning routine

[HappyRaven]

When we took our puppy to classes fifteen years ago we were told its a good idea to do hand signals alongside voice commands. Thank goodness we did because our lovely boy eventually lost his hearing. We have said goodbye to him now. Now we have our new pup we always use hand signals as well as voice commands. Best thing we did.

[loveyouradvice]

heavens my wee fella is feeling rather underaccomplished..... going to get practising!

[splishsplashsploosh]

Come (only when she wants to)
Sit
Stay
Wait
Find
Go round
Up
Down
Roll over
Spin (she spins in a circle)
Through (she walks through your legs)
Bow
Speak
Here
Ball
Fetch
Walk
Open the door
Treat
Back soon
Basket
Bone
On the mat
Paw
Other paw
Our names and hers
No
Peanut butter
Cheese
Carrot
Dinner
Water
Bowl
Lie down
Stop

She's a collie cross and 18 months

[SteelMack]

6 year old greyhound:

Dinner
Breakfast
Treat
What's this (in relation to treats)
Chicken
Pigs ear
Leave it
Come
Sit
(The last 3 he only does if there's food in sight)

Anyone recognise a theme?? Greedy greedy dog!!

Should see how quick he can move when I touch the fridge door handle

[CaptainMyCaptain]

My previous dog responded to words spoken in conversation with another person and not directed at her. Words like cats, biscuits, toy, dinner, bed.

[CaptainMyCaptain]

Jack Russell Terrier

Last night she was on my husband's lap and he announced to her that he needed a wee (!) she jumped off and stood at the door to be let out. So she knows that one.

I haven't tried to work out how many words she knows but she can hear a down jacket being taking out of a cupboard from upstairs. She responds to me putting on lip salve/lipstick as that means I'm going out but can tell by the shoes I put on whether she'll be coming with me. When we're out she responds to clicking noises and hand signals as much as spoken commands.

[Ylvamoon]

By 4 years my Tibetan Terrier boy knew:

His name

Sit, Stay, Down Come

All his toys names (about 10) & he would go and get them & give to you for play time

Go Toilet on comand

He knew people's names, basically tell him to go and see Ylva Children or DH. Also knew names of regular visitors to Ylva house and all my co workers (he was an office dog) so about 30 people... he was able to pass on items to people, comand was "take" and go see XXX.

He could pick up items from the floor and give to you, place them in a box or pas to an other person.

Roll over & back.

Pretty beg

Give paw

Over - mainly to jump over child gate.

Shut door to crate (used paw to hold it close for me to lock 🤣)

Empty washing machine
Take items from washing basket and place into tumble dryer, shut door and switch dryer on (dryer had a big push button)

Ride a skate board

Speak

Be dead

Touch

Sad

... yes he was super dog! Some of it I taught him like classic dog tricks. Other stuff he figured out himself like toy / peoples names. The laundry help was a combination of the 2.

[jambeforeclottedcream]

Oh and touch

[jambeforeclottedcream]

Ddog is 3 year old cavapoo And knows the following

Tea time
Breakfast time
Sit
Wait
Stay
Come
Ok

She does agility so also knows
Weave
Over
Tunnel
Left & Right

[FuckOffBorisYouTwat]

My favourite one we taught our 3 year old is
"Who wants to play? And she bounds off looking for a dog to play with.

[billybagpuss]

@DesiderataH I love that you have a multilingual dog 🙂

[RedHelenB]

Mine is 3 years old shirts cross and knows his name and only one of the kids names, walkies, sausage , the name of his favourite place to walk. Commands sit, wait, here, down ,wee, fetch.
Cutest thing he does is carry his water bowl to wherever you are and starts to play with it when it's empty.

[FlopsRevenge]

18month Malamute, recently adopted. She knows:

Her name
Sit
Lie down
Roll over
Up (get onto something)
Down (get down from something)
Catch
Treat
Walk
Good girl (gives me a grin!)
Crate
Bedtime
Wait
Leave
Ball
Baby (her soft toy)

Would love to teach her some canicross commands after she settles, she seems like a very bright girl (if a little stubborn!)

[CallmeAngelina]

Oh yes we also have "give mummy a kiss" but he knows that means point his nose somewhere near my ear. He licks ds on the face but never me.

[Pandoraslastchance]

Oh and kiss.

He knows those commands by signal as well as words.

'Kiss' is a tap on the cheek, Sit is hand held up etc