Change A Dogs Name

[Dranny GLC 112]

Anyone ever got a dog and changed its name.?

[THLpatrick 555]

yeah normally start with i.e my dogs called dy.. then c**t, f***ing, you stupid little f**k, come near and ill strangle, i hate you etc

[THLpatrick 555]

then eventually good girl when it decides to come back

[RossM 8,121]

Providing you say it in the right tone most dugs will come to any name.....

[Tiercel 6,986]

Yep, and I have news for you dogs don't speak English or any other language, they associate sounds with actions.

 

TC

[johnny 2 367]

Then explain Brian off family guy?

[gnipper 6,534]

My mate at works dog flint comes when I call it fifi it pisses him right off ?

[Tiercel 6,986]

The wife rescued a pom and it's name was Gucci the first day, it started barking, and I told it "you'll end up as Sushi if you keep that up" since then I have always called it Sushi, while the rest of them still call it Gucci. It really pisses them off when she will come to me before them.

 

TC

[RossM 8,121]

BPR has a whippet called ruby........ She come to Dave.....

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

Yep, and I have news for you dogs don't speak English or any other language, they associate sounds with actions.

 

TC

I ain't having that. Dogs can and do understand words. Not just tone.

[Neal 1,873]

Gaz, I think that what Tiercel's trying to say is that they don't understand words in the same way as us. They know what we mean when we say, "sit" or "get off the sofa" but you could just as easily teach them to sit by saying "stand" or "brussel sprouts," as long as the continual association is in place.

[mushroom 13,235]

This'll stir the debate a bit....

 

Trevor understood 3 languages by the time he died and believe me the tones are completely different

 

we did an experiment on one of my old dogs where we said lots of commands he knew but mucked about with the tones etc. The conclusion was this particular dog understood the words not tone

 

Dogs have remarkable adaptions to facilitate life with humans

[skycat 6,173]

All you need to do is to call it by its old name followed immediately by its new name. Depending on how bright and confident the dog is, it should only take a few days or weeks before you can drop the old name completely. Most of my dogs have nicknames, which they answer to as well as their proper names. For example, Favour is also called Fuggy, and she responds to both just the same. Littlish is also called Ickle or Squish. As long as there is a dominant consonant or vowel, they don't have any problem picking it up.

[Maximus Ferret 2,063]

Gaz, I think that what Tiercel's trying to say is that they don't understand words in the same way as us. They know what we mean when we say, "sit" or "get off the sofa" but you could just as easily teach them to sit by saying "stand" or "brussel sprouts," as long as the continual association is in place.

That's true but then it's also true of humans. If you bring up a child saying "brussel sprouts" when you want him to sit, he'll do it. Words don't have any actual meaning beyond what we've been taught that they mean.

[desertbred 5,490]

I once trained one of my dogs in Persian it didn't hear any other language it is the tone and pronunciation much more than the actual words spoken. And repeat certain actions with certain sounds the dog with repetition will respond, Dogs can read demeanour and mood by tone and movements many people in a house can control a dog even though the tone of the voice is very different. I also trained a dog to f**k off when i told it to come to me and come to me when I told it to f**k off , it would be usefull now if plod told you to call your dog while out running LOL