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Re:A whale who tried to mimic human speech (2014) by CyanBird on Sunday May 02, 2021 @02:14AM (#27012743)
I do this a lot with my cats and dogs as well, they are smart, they just don't speak my language, so since they were small I spoke to them with sign language, for example if the dogs are still hungry after I give them food, I do the hand gesture of clapping in ASL and that way they understand that there's no more food and can see my hands that I am not hiding/holding anything

There's not much else that I can do when they go insane barking tho..... But they do trust me a lot and I can tell easily when they are trying to tell me things such as "follow me" which happens when they find something weird like a dead frog or some other animal they don't know (neighbors have chickens)

Also they lately have gotten into making holes in the yard (the dogs) if anyone has ideas how to stop that, that'd be great.....

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Re:A whale who tried to mimic human speech (2014) by gverrilla on Sunday May 02, 2021 @03:28AM (#27013048)
why you want to stop your dogs from making holes in the ground? it's like making playing children stop
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Re:A whale who tried to mimic human speech (2014) by jshmrsn on Sunday May 02, 2021 @04:29AM (#27013353)
Common reasons include holes in the ground leading to dogs escaping out of fenced areas, or just general property damage (dogs can quickly dig large holes which are walking hazards, and don’t look as nice as a well kept yard). Also, when children play in the street, for example, wouldn’t you stop in that kind of situation? Or if children were digging large holes on someone else’s / public property?
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Re:A whale who tried to mimic human speech (2014) by gverrilla on Sunday May 02, 2021 @05:42AM (#27013725)
Can't you just cover the holes, instead of trying to force dogs out of their nature?
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Re:A whale who tried to mimic human speech (2014) by warent on Sunday May 02, 2021 @12:25PM (#27016490)
well you could say this about any behavior. Why teach children to stop peeing their pants, isn't that just trying to force them out of their nature?

There's nothing abusive about training a dog about proper behavior. Anyway, I think a dog's nature is more about obeying humans than digging holes. That's kind of the deal we made thousand of years ago

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Re:A whale who tried to mimic human speech (2014) by gverrilla on Sunday May 02, 2021 @01:00PM (#27016782)
peeing their pants will make them smell and mprobably irritate the skin. digging holes is a completely normal behavior for a dog (unless it's excessive or coupled with abnormal behavior).
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Re:A whale who tried to mimic human speech (2014) by seg_lol on Sunday May 02, 2021 @01:31PM (#27017064)
I was at the beach a couple days ago and dug two excellent holes, one was artistic in nature an the other was a nice holder for a bottle of wine.

Nice way to pass the time while chatting with friends.

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Re:A whale who tried to mimic human speech (2014) by vagrantJin on Sunday May 02, 2021 @01:19PM (#27016962)
> Anyway, I think a dog's nature is more about obeying humans than digging holes

The international Canis organizations call such speech slavery and a canine revolutionary uprising is nigh.

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