What words does your dog know, that you wish they wouldn’t?

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I don’t mean the usual one like walkies and din dins, but words they know, that they taught themselves, as a benefit to them.

For example, I’m disabled with a pain condition. When it flares up, I lay in bed, like today.

If I say to the dogs, “do you want to go upstairs?”, they immediately fly up instantly knowing what I’ve said.

Not sure which word triggers them, but they make no mistake of understanding me

Basket/bed (two different locations)
Kitchen
Cat
Names of DCats
Dog
Dinner
Cupboard
Squirrel
and all the usuals like biscuits, treats, wee wee, etc.

Most annoyingly, he learnt 'walk', so we started saying W.A.L.K. Then he learnt W.A.L.K., so we started saying 'trip'. Which he also learnt, and so on and so on. We are currently on 'journey', but probably not for much longer.

My dog doesn't know that many words but she does seem to know kebab 😂. I did teach her the word ball and she will fetch it then pester you for hours.

Most annoyingly, he learnt 'walk', so we started saying W.A.L.K. Then he learnt W.A.L.K., so we started saying 'trip'. Which he also learnt, and so on and so on. We are currently on 'journey', but probably not for much longer

Sounds like my DSis' last DDog who also learnt W.A.L.K. Her current DDog isn't quite as clever, he walks into walls

The one that most springs can to mind is discussing she needs a bath ,she literally disappears

My dog is 8 months old and knows so many words/phrases already. It's my own fault because I speak to her like she's a person. 😂

I can't say "do you want" in conversation because she starts jumping around expecting me to finish with

Walk
Treat
Chicken
Dinner
Biscuit
Crate

She knows the difference between her toys like ball or teddy and if I say "bring it" after, she will go and get it out of her toy box.

She also knows "what's this" and "toilet"

If I say "feet" she scuffs and scratches her feet on the doormat to clean/dry them after her walks.

If she hears the cooker timer alarm go off she stops whatever she's doing and runs into the kitchen because she knows I'll be going in.

'Dog'. You cannot have a conversation with that word in it; his head whips round and he stares at you, trying to work out what you're talking about and what's coming next. He picks key words out from conversations, you don't need to emphasise the word or get his attention.

The other day someone said "we're going to need the squirrel patrol" and he zoomed in from another room to demand to be let out to see the squirrel off the property. One of his favourite pastimes.

I don't use the word vet, it's always been "Big-Boy-Doctor For-Clever-Dogs" 🤭
Has the same effect though 🥴

Ball - so much so that we have to say B A L L and spend it out otherwise she goes wild and starts jumping up to pockets to find it

Who is it? - she starts to frantically round for the family member who is just about to arrive

*spell it out!

Lots of usual ones like cat, squirrel etc. When I say boop he will touch his nose to mine.

Beep beep - he moves out of my way.

Also he knows the words "fuck off"for when he is being really annoying 😂

Little one knows none…she’s deaf 😆.

Big one knows fuck off 😩. And by god she could hear a crisp packet open from 10 miles away 😂

We say it's Teadles time when it's dinner time. My rather crazy DH then starts singing "it's teadles time, and there's no need to be afraid " as in Do they know it's Christmas by band aid. Dog always knows what's going on then... 😂😂

we have a collie and she knows everything she is unbelievably clever. She tried to play board games with us at Christmas - watching really intently, trying to figure out what dominoes are for…

Not words but my older dog goes straight to the kitchen when the oven timer goes off.

Shower - heads sadly upstairs and makes her way into the shower cubicle as if she's heading for a firing squad

Ears or Nails - tries to slink away in an 'I'm not here don't mind me' fashion

Field or Car - starts running round like a loony as she knows where we're going

Also when I'm getting changed she comes to see what I'm putting on - leggings and socks cause excitement as they generally mean a walk, a dress just gets a nose in the air ad a sniff of disdain

Cheese

W.A.L.K
'Beddybyes'
Shower (she trudges into the wet room and faces the corner looking miserable!)
SQUIRREL!!
Daddy, Charlie, Lucy, Teddy, Charles Abby... Mummy... all the people she loves most :)
Move! (when she's under our feet in the kitchen)
This way!
Probably loads more!

My dog knows happy birthday the song, and that it's associated with a candle being lit on a cake. You can't ever get away with lighting the candles in the other room and walking through to surprise the birthday person because she announces your arrival with excited barks.

She also knows the different between a champagne/Prosecco bottle and normal wine, because she gets the cork from a prosecco bottle. She has been known to approach people she doesn't know in parks/at restaurants requesting their cork

A few times a week my lovely old neighbour takes them for a walk. When he rings first to check 1qhe always asks if the "girls want a walk'. When I say "Hi Arthur" their ears pop up and when I say "yes they do". They run to the front door in circles.
When it's a no they lie down dejected. Very sweet.
They know the names of our 4 kids as well as my friends and will find them in the park with great excitement.
They know stick, ball, toy, food, treat, car, wash (very sad faces), hoover (run away), off you go (go to the loo), bed., Drop, downstairs, upstairs. Go and play (will look for another dog, bugger off (will stop begging), for fucks sake (hide in their beds). They understand but absolutely ignore heel.

The youngest one could be trained to do anything but we are quite lazy and she can sit, come and lie down. I once spent an hour teaching her to weave around my legs and she got it brilliantly but couldn't be arsed with more.

I wouldn’t say he knows words we don’t want him to but he knows a lot more than we expected. Some I can think of are:
cheese (obviously!)
walk
go (even if not used in the context of going for a walk he thinks it is so this one is a bit of a pain)
If we say ‘shop’ (pet shop), he’ll turn one way off our street and if we say ‘field’, he’ll turn the other
get your ball
cross the road
beach
dinner
treatos
bed time
Mum, Dad and DS’s name
His girlfriend’s name
Car
Agility

That’s all I can think of but something that really surprises me is that he knows when it is Wednesday at 8pm as that’s when we get ready to go to agility. I’ve no idea how he can know it’s a certain day and time.

He also knows the sound that the air fryer makes when it finishes, the sound of our (quiet, electric) car pulling up and like most dogs, the sound of the ring doorbell.

Cat. But only if I say it. Think once there was one who dared to stroll through her garden and she went nuts (inside, cat did not give a fuck) - I said cat, and now, years later she still goes to look for it by running off. Doesn't do it for anyone else. Bit mean but sometimes a good distraction when needed!

We have a border collie, there’s too many words and names that he knows. My father in law died 3 years ago and now if I say Grandad he goes to the door to wait for him.

Other than the usual, she’s learned -

Yard - we have horses and she usually comes to the yard with me. She gets to play with other dogs and gets to blast around my horses field while I’m poo picking - she just has to hear the word in casual conversation and she’s off. She also knows where I’m going when I put my yard boots on.

Beach - her favourite place ever and gets excited whenever she hears the word.

Bed - if I say I’m going to bed, she’s upstairs like a bloody rocket

Ours know Do you want to go out? Do you want? Biscuit, chicken, dog on the telly. foods, walk, teatime, where's the rat-rat (starts running around looking in corners). We have 6 so they get excited pretty quickly.

6 dogs not rats! House had rats when we moved in!

Shove up (when I want to sit on the sofa she's sprawling on)
Wee wee to tell her to go out in the garden and did you do wee wee when she comes back in - her tail wags.