Words/commands your dog knows/their age and breed

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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.

I like the fact that BiteyDog gets so frustrated sometimes waiting for treats that he goes through the whole list of tricks in one go without me asking

5 year old border collie Cross

• her name
• her nicknames
• mummy
• daddy
• baby
• up
• down
• bed
• bedtime
• up the stairs
• sit
• lie down
• high five
• paw
• other paw
• treat/sweets
• do you want...
• ball
• Where's the/your

(for example...Where's the ball?)

• come and get me
• names of each toy (sloth, lion, fox, frizbee, ball)
• do you want your collar off?
• do you want dried?
• will we go to...
• walk
• get it
• butter
• who is it?
• flies
• cats
• birds
• out
• outside
• find
• cuddle
• kisses
• careful
• easy
• excuse me
• yes
• no
• wait
• collar
• lead
• drink
• which one / which hand / what one do you want

I'm sure there's more but these are the main every day ones.

4 month lab.

Fairly solid on:
Her name
Sit
Stay
Cross (as in road)
Garden (as in "come out to the garden")
Fist bump (DS's contribution to the training process)

Still disappointingly flakey on:
Wee wee
Poo poo
Here

(I had a dog who worked out "sit" at 8 weeks, but still wees inside occasionally at 4 months )

Work in progress:
Lie Down
Heel

Her name
Sit
Lie down
Paw
Other paw
Come here
Cat
Squirrel
Get it
Go on then
What this (for a treat)
In (telling her to go in a river/lake/etc)
Out (telling her to go outside or out of a room)
Speak
There (pointing at food for her to eat lol)
This way
Leave it
Bed
Up

Siberian husky age 5

Oh I forgot wait and gently too

3 year old husky.
Sit
Stay
Down
Come
Walk on ( as in ignore distraction)
Drop
Leave
Paws ( left & right as I had to train so he goes the correct way)
High five
Gee
Haw
Hike (pulling commands)
Whoa
Steady
Wait
Up - to lift legs to get in and out of harnesses.
Who is it - he goes to front door to check for post.
Settle down.

Theres a few more but they are tricks he does.

My pug knows Dinner

He's very clever but just couldn't give a shit in anything else

Lab mix
14 years

He knows both verbal commands and hand signals. We taught him loads when he was a pup to keep his brain active. He’s extremely smart and needs lots to do!

Verbal:
His name (and multiple variations)
Come
Sit
Wait
Go back
Down
Up
Under (crawl)
Speak
Finish
Leave it
No
Dinner
Walk
Out
Bed
Fetch
Heel
Paw
Seek
Get busy (do a wee!)
Dance (paws on shoulders)
Good boy

Hand signals:
Recall
Go left
Go right
Wait
Sit
Lie down
Spin left
Spin right
Touch nose
Right paw
Left paw
Heel
Roll over

Working Labs; 7&1

sit, down, paw, come, wait, stay, drop it, give, heel, go pee, on your bed

Over - cross the road
Hold - pick that up
Leave - leave that alone
The names of about 8 toys - "hold teddy/duck/bone/kong"
go eat - I make them wait for the command when they get fed
Leads on - come back to me and sit down because the walk is over
Get on - run off and play
Back up - go backwards
tuck in - walk behind me (for narrow pavements etc)
Find (DH or DC name)
Up Up - jump up (soft, boot of the car)

And silly ones:
High five, paw, other paw, twirl, spin, 'who is a meerkat' (begging!), peekaboo (paw over eyes), rollover, let's dance, cuddle time, downward dog,

The puppy has got about half of them, and is nowhere near as smart as the older dog.
The older one would 'get' something after 4 or 5 times. The puppy loses her mind when she knows there are treats, so can't concentrate and therefore takes forever to learn something. We are getting there... She is just an angsty soft thing

Oh, and 'don't you fucking dare' - I will be displeased if you belly flop into that muddy puddle

Ddog is 8 weeks old, and today we seem to have nailed "sit." She also knows her name, and at the moment she responds to "come" if she wants to!

We're working on "down" as well as trying to firm "sit."

She's a Border Collie so she doesn't just respond to simple commands, but picks up your meaning from generally talking to her. For example you can say 'A car's coming' and she knows this means she has to get in at the hedge and sit down until it's passed, or you can exclaim 'I've lost my keys!' and she'll go and find them. By saying 'Where's mine?!' or 'I want one too!' after she's given someone else a hand nudge or a kiss she knows to come and give you one too. If I do give her a basic command and she doesn't respond first time because she was distracted by something interesting, I can say 'Um, what did I ask you to do?!' and she'll do it, and she knows 'I'll be cross if you woof!' means she needs to stay quiet (if strangled throat growls at the neighborhood foxes count at staying quiet!). Actually though, bless her, she is a bit of a thicko as collies go - our last you could give a whole string of instructions to - 'Go and find your ball and take it to the stile, and when I get there you can jump it. Then lie down and wait for me' sort of thing. She is a lovely dog though.

Anyway, to answer the question!

Simple commands:

Sit
Stay
Stand and stay
Wait
Come here
Go to X
Lie down
High 5
Big 10s
Bow
Put it in the basket
Bring it to my hand
Put it on the chair
Pick it up
Find X (all of us by name, our hats, gloves, keys, wallets, phones and any of her toys)
Do a wee/poo
Have a drink
Go in your bed
Go on your mat (she does get this mixed up with her bed sometimes)
Shake (water droplets out of fur)
Nudge (my hand with her nose)
Kiss
You can go (after counting, sometimes up to 30. I'm sure she would go longer but doesn't seem fair to make her wait!)
In at the side/on the left/on the right/you can cross (the road)
Come/go through (a stile or gap of some kind)
Jump over
Be quiet
Weave (in and out of legs)
Drop it (or 'Thank you!')
Look at me (makes eye contact)

Other words and phrases she knows the meaning of:

Beach
Walk
Car
Biscuit
Dinner
Are you hungry/thirsty?
Water
Footpath
Stile
Treat/liver/chicken/cheese/Something nice
Birthday/Christmas/Present (she gets new toys wrapped up whenever we have any, spoiled rotten as she is!)
Let's go in the water! (Sea or river)
Vet
Lead on/off
Home
Play
Toys

Plus all the usual 'Clever/good/brave/special/naughty/Oh dear!' type things.

I'm sure there's more but I can't think of any right now. She's a precious Love-Bug, my girl. Mentally and physically exhausting though!!

@Sitdowncupoftea

It's cool you have a 'working' husky! Are you in the UK? If so, how...?

Shut the door.
Shut the kitchen door
Chickens
Alpacas
Dinner
Have a drink
Walk
Heel
Lead
Sit
Lie down
Paw
Stand
Belly
Cheese
Fridge
Clean it up
Leave it
Hold there
Car
Boot
Vet
Names of the kids
Names of me and DH
Cat
Off the bird
Point!
Side of road
Here
Now!
Drop it
Bring it
Fetch it
Soft mouth (she’s a bird dog, but we don’t hunt, works for when she is bringing so,etching so she doesn’t leave teethe marks)
Jump up
Jump over
Quiet
Stop talking (pointers are noisy)
Off the couch
Come back
Swim
No digging
Wait (as in don’t eat that thing in front of you until I say)

Much of this is to do with tone of voice, and she sometimes needs the hand signal to go with it if she’s excited or reluctant.

13 yr old GSP. We are going to say goodbye to her soon, she has cancer, but she still runs like a greyhound, jumps like a horse and points like a statue. She also intrinsically knows how to treat people gently, and when they need her. She will go and stand next to the kids when we are cross with them for something and glare at us. She was such hard work as a pup, but she’s such a good dog. We are going to miss her.

@sparechange

'who's a meercat'

Best command ever - I'm stealing this

I used to know a DDog who knew Cheese and also Fromage, which owner was trying to use as a code to stop him getting over excited.

How sad @Sevensilverrings - she sounds absolutely gorgeous x

2 lab x's, age 3, both know
Sit
Lie
Paw
Up, up (jumps for treat)
Up (jumps on something)
Over (jumps over something)
Through (tunnel)
Ball
Beep beep (get out of the way)
Down (used like off)
Find it
Get on (run forward)
Heel
Leave it
Wait
Stay
Circle
Free (release cue)
Go and play
All finished
In
Come
Treat
No!!!!!
It is interesting writing them down. They knew about half of these until very recently, when I thought I'd train some more commands.

Voice and whistles;
Heel
Come
Stop
Stay
Turn
Set
Drop
Leave that
Off
Up
Sit
Down
Paw
Slow
Run on
Quiet
Over
Under
No
Swim
Find

Standard dachshund, 11 weeks:

Sit
Come here
No
Fetch
Wait
A release command
Food
His name

All taught in the week and 2 days we’ve had him. He is a clever sausage but I am dreading his puberty..... he is already taking liberties because the husband isn’t consistent....

Also, working on:

Drop it
Leave it

Bella 11 and a rescue we've had a couple of years knows
Her name,
Sit.
Lie down,
Bed,
Stay,
Wait,
Get down, (off the sofa/bed)
Be quick (toilet)
Leave it,
Dinner,
Paw,

I would love her to learn Quiet but she is steadfastly refusing all my efforts.

Knows, or knows and responds to? He knows the following - but only does them if he wants to! (Or if I offer a food bribe).
Cocker spaniel, 3 & a bit.

Sit
Down
Here
Do you want to go out? (toileting - if he doesn't he ignores me, if he does he stands and looks at the door when asked)
Off (the furniture or jumping up)
On (a specific things I'm pointing at)
No
Yes (in response to a command, to indicate he's got it right).
Fetch
Pick it up (a toy)
Basket (put the toy in a basket)
Give
Wait
Stay
Back (get behind me and wait while I go through a door / throw a ball etc)
Middle (sit between my legs)
Tea
Breakfast
Walk
Roll over (rolling over, right shoulder first)
Roll back (rolling over, left shoulder)
Right paw
Left paw
(Generally teaching left and right as part of agility, so extended it to which paw to present)

Agility commands
Over (jump)
Tunnel
Seesaw
Climb (A-frame)
Walk (dog walk)
Touch (back feet on contact equipment & front feet on ground, and wait)
Go on (a run of jumps)
Weave
Round (round the back of a jump and back towards me)

7 month old Goldendoodle
wee wee
come
away
back
fetchit
where's it?
Me, DD, DS, DP name
leave
cat
fox
kisses
high five
seek it
treat
treasure hunt
game
ball
duck
squeaky ball (ie not just any ball)
squeak (make a sqeaky thing squeak)
upstairs
up
cuddle
stand
settle
come
wait
stop
no
take it
food
water
quiet
through (through my legs)
around (around my legs)
over (over my legs)
jump
catch it
poo
off you go
no more, all gone
heel
delivery
puppy (puppy toy)
Sven (reindeer toy)
Snowie (snow leopard toy)
harness
lead
chew
cross
pavement

God, I am that parent.