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[Sapphire Sebright]

Right!? most of the working dogs like German Shepherds, Belgian Malinois, etc. are trained in German, Czech, or French or a combination of them. Dutch is less common I think but still used sometimes.

I like them too because then you don’t have a bunch of randos trying to make your dog do stuff or rather, they still try but he won’t listen

Therefore, any future dog will be trained at least partially in a foreign language or at least use the foreign language for when I really need it to listen and let other people use whatever English commands they want so it doesn’t mess up the dog’s training.

If a dog hears a word too much, it starts to lose meaning so this way it won’t cause who’s gonna try to say foreign commands to it LOL but any foster dogs or guide dog puppies, etc. would, of course, be trained in English for that same reason. Harder to adopt a dog out if he doesn’t know English or at least hand signals.

Plus it just sounds cool! I think I would mix and match though cause I don’t like how some of the commands sound so I would use different ones that I like OR! Maybe train one dog in German and one in French or whatever so they don’t get confused when I’m not talking to them haha

Try teaching one in that Turkish whistled language. They'll never figure it out.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

I know English, I used to know quite a bit of French but have forgotten it all.

I took Spanish for eight years but still don't really know much.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Try teaching one in that Turkish whistled language. They'll never figure it out.

What!?

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

What!?

There's a language that some people speak in the mountains in Turkey, I believe -- it's all whistles.
Unfortunately, it's starting to die out.

 

[ShrekDawg]

There's a language that some people speak in the mountains in Turkey, I believe -- it's all whistles.
Unfortunately, it's starting to die out.

That’s interesting and sad!!!

 

[ShrekDawg]

I could use this!

https://www.thebordercollie.co.uk/sheepdog-whistle-commands

 

[Misfits Farm 92]

Don't take this out of context....

 

[ShrekDawg]

Or these

https://www.ducks.org/hunting/retriever-training/whistle-commands
https://www.gundogsupply.com/honeybrake-episode21.html

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

... Would it be possible to train a dog to react to a pattern of armpit farts?
(Wow, that was juvenile of me).

 

[JadeFarms]

Right!? most of the working dogs like German Shepherds, Belgian Malinois, etc. are trained in German, Czech, or French or a combination of them. Dutch is less common I think but still used sometimes.

I like them too because then you don’t have a bunch of randos trying to make your dog do stuff or rather, they still try but he won’t listen

Therefore, any future dog will be trained at least partially in a foreign language or at least use the foreign language for when I really need it to listen and let other people use whatever English commands they want so it doesn’t mess up the dog’s training.

If a dog hears a word too much, it starts to lose meaning so this way it won’t cause who’s gonna try to say foreign commands to it LOL but any foster dogs or guide dog puppies, etc. would, of course, be trained in English for that same reason. Harder to adopt a dog out if he doesn’t know English or at least hand signals.

Plus it just sounds cool! I think I would mix and match though cause I don’t like how some of the commands sound so I would use different ones that I like OR! Maybe train one dog in German and one in French or whatever so they don’t get confused when I’m not talking to them haha

And if you tell your dog to do something, nobody will never know what your telling it