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.

[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.

[Moondust001]

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

[GrumpyMiddleAgedWoman]

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

Bloody amazing, that.

[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.

[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!

[VitreousHumour]

//grin

[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!

[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.

[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!!