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.

[BiteyShark]

@EmmaGrundyForPM

Oh God, feeling a total failure here.

This thread reminds me of when ds was small and every other baby hit their milestones before him.

Ddog is 7 months old. He knows:

Sit
Paw
Stand
Lie
Stay
Fetch
Drop
Water
Find ds/dh
Babbity (soft toy)
Wee wee
Come (but often ignores it....)

And thats it.
I've got a thick dog don't I?

I don't care, we love him anyway

Don't worry. Mine was so ill on and off for the first two years of his life that he only knew a few commands like sit/stay/find it and recall.

All the others were really learnt when he was around 2 when we weren't battling with illness and accidents. You can definitely teach an older dog new tricks

[ArcherDog]

‘Go busy’ was the best command I taught Archer, having a dog that can toilet on command is very useful!

He knows all the basics, some fun ones (play dead, salute, spin, back up, through the legs), agility and Canicross commands (left/right/steady/over/wrap/round/over/hold), plus individual toys (rope, ball, toy, stick, teddy, duck etc)

[PollyRoulson]

My dogs know loads of words the problem is can I remember what the word is for each behaviour .

My old lab is still goes left when I say right as he knows that is what I really meant to say

They are cleverer than me....

[TooTrueToBeGood]

@Chevron383

Wow you've all got very clever dogs!

I thought ours wasn't very bright but a lot of these words have clicked in the last month.

Have you found you've needed to specifically train them or they've just picked them up naturally?

A bit of both. Most command-type words have been trained but the rest have been picked up. Sometimes it's quite amazing. For example, he knows the difference between "park" and "beach", they're not just synonyms for going for a walk. If I tell him we're going to the beach then when he gets to the front gate he turns right and heads straight for the car but if I've said we're going to the park he'll turn right. I tested this a couple of times by telling him he was going to the beach when we weren't. He headed for the car and when I started walking the other way he just stood there giving me the dirtiest of looks.

[SofieSam]

Border collie, two years old. Understands everything I say and plenty of things I don’t. She just seems to pick up vocabulary from context, whether or not we want her to!

[HappyThursdays]

I'm not sure it's a cleverness thing. But I know we wouldn't have coped without some commands because he's just so boisterous and energetic and we would be struggling to control him otherwise. The first trainer called him 'spirited' which I think is like school reports with code words for difficult children!

[Chocolateandamaretto]

7 month old labxGR

Sit
Stand
Lie down
Spin
Paw
Touch
Wait
Stay
Get it
Drop it
Come (hahaha in the house and garden only!!!)
Heel (as in come to my heel)
Let’s go (to walk on)
What’s this (new emergency come back to me because something amazing will happen which we’ve worked up on the longline and is so far unpoisoned!)
Ok (release cue)
Up
Off
Bed

He doesn’t know the name of anything or anyone except bed - do they just pick that up over time?

[ItsJustARide]

@Chevron383

Wow you've all got very clever dogs!

I thought ours wasn't very bright but a lot of these words have clicked in the last month.

Have you found you've needed to specifically train them or they've just picked them up naturally?

Its just time and repetition. The commands took treat training but he picked them up surprisingly quickly at 10 weeks old and that was that.

As for the rest, full disclosure- i’ve been a single parent the dogs whole life with nobody here to talk to most of the time (and now ds is 17 so we don’t exist) so its been a running commentary that he's just picked up because (sadly) I’ve talked to him as though he’s a small child.
It never ceases to amaze me though and I sometimes wonder how I’d ever begin again with a puppy in future because they’d never “get it” the way this lil fella does. They’re quite remarkable really.

[noblegreenk]

I have a 7 year old greyhound and she's not very bright, bless her, but despite this she's the best behaved dog I've ever had. She knows the following:
Sit
Lie down
Elbows (when she sits and I want her to lie down)
Dinner
Do you want a piggy (pigs ear)
No
Wee wees
Walkies
Her own name

[EdwardCullensBiteOnTheSide]

Our sadly departed dear old jrt knew from age 2ish :
Wee wee
Poo
Hungry
Walk
Lead
Chicken
Biscuit
Home
Out
Sit
Stay
Lie down
No
Upside down
Car
Cats
And probably more, he was amazing ❤️

[whenwillthemadnessend]

My 16 week old lab cross knows
Name
Sit
Down
Come
Stay
Release (to drop toy)
Ring bell to go out
Wee wee
Uh uh (to say no)
Go then (permission to eat)

Working on
Paw
Find it
Go bed
3 whistles for "come" on a walk

I'm impressed with all the things he may learn in future

[GrumpyMiddleAgedWoman]

Old dog: his name, recall, sit. Not well trained at all.
Middle dog (4): her name and about 30 commands, some by word, signal and whistle. A pleasure to train and loads of fun and very bright - learned 'go back' in 3 sessions.
Puppy (9 months): her name, 'in', stay, sit, recall, turn whistle, heel, learning the stop whistle and settle.

All working-line gun dogs.

[Lostinwinter]

10year old puggle.

She is very greedy, so we have an automatic feeder that feeds each meal in 4 lots 12 minutes apart. After she has had her 1st portion she waits in her basket for the second, again for the 3rd and 4th. After she has had thd fourth one she walks away and gets on with whatever. She knows the 4th portion is the last.

[yearinyearout]

16 months old...
Her name
Sit
Stay
Wait
Down
Dinner
Breakfast
Wee
Poo
Busy
Pig (her toy)
Bed
Carrot
Off
Come
Find it
Steady

[katieak]

His name
Sit
Lie down
Wait (won't go for a toy or dinner until we say "go on")
Go on
Roll over
Paw / high five
Walkies / where we going
Bedtime
Where's your (insert name of toy) and he brings the correct one
Wee wee
Come here
This way / that way
What's this (treat)
Kisses (but only dad does that one)
Grandma/grandad
Where's mummy/daddy
Dinner
Dentastick
Cuddles
Shush (stop barking)
A certain whistle when he's out walking brings him back to my side

He's a moron usually though 😂
5yo cocker

[yearinyearout]

Oh, and "leave it" although she doesn't always obey that one 😬

[Guineapigbridge]

My four month old mini schnauzer knows
Sit
Stay
Come
Look
Drop It
Walk
In your house (he doesn't always do it though)
Go toilet ?
And, we are teaching him Down

[Suzi888]

Sit
Lie down
Paw
Roll over
Beach
Ball
Go toilet
Treat
Toy
No
Bed
Dinner
Breakfast
Teddy
Water
Bath
Gentle
Few people's names
Come
Lead

His name ... sometimes, if it suits him

10 year old Lab

[GymSloth]

My old lab is still goes left when I say right as he knows that is what I really meant to say

This is just brilliant!

Think I need to do a lot more training with ddog based on what some of your dogs can do. Amazing.

[HedgesGalore]

On the mat = when he comes in so I can wipe his feet
Biscuit
Cheese
Wait
Hello = a heads up that there is another dog near
This way
On your bed
Run away = get behind me
Stay close
On the path = we walk on coastal paths but useful elsewhere
Cross over = when we cross roads

13 yo Westie who has become deaf in the last few years so words are useless. I've found that things we do routinely more important than words now. I still say them out of habit. Have changed some things clap my hands and open my arms wide for him to know to come to me.

[RandomMess]

Parson Jack Russel adult

Her name
Busy busy to go out to the toilet
Wait
Go on


So not a lot, doesn't know walk!!!

[HappyRaven]

6 month beagle
Sit
Lay down
Settle down
In your bed
Off
Leave
Stay
Come
Down stay
Put your paws up
Bow
By my side
Walk nicely (this needs practice)
Whats this
Are you ready
Go find it
Try this way
Drop it
Fetch
He loves using his brain.

[HappyRaven]

Oh and high five and paw.

[Goneroundthetwist]

5 month jrt
Sit
Leave it
Wait (stop and come back)
Treat
Come on
Go and pee
In your bed
Drop it
Walkies
Treat
Food
Are you hungry
Go find
Where’s your ball.
Off (the sofa)

[tabulahrasa]

Don’t have my own full time dog at the moment, but my last one was PTS 2 years ago, a 6 yr old rottie he knew...

Actually taught to him

His name
Come
Sit
Down
Stand
Paw
Spin
Off
Up
Wait
Stay
Leave
Drop
Take
Dead (as in play dead)
Over
Bed
Door (as in shut the door)
Touch
Find
Go
Muzzle
Weave
Walk
Run
Speak
Sad (down, but with his head between his paws)
Wassat? (Come and look at this thing)
Stop
Go pee
Good boy

Words he just picked up
Move (as in move out of my way)
Walk
Out
Cat
Name of the cats
Dog
Biscuit
Dinner
Cheese
Bone
Ball
Variations on his name
Bath