Any one else have to talk in code?

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We can’t mention the word walk, as both dogs go mad. Sometimes, if we’re at home at a loose end now, either me or the OH will suggest going for a Lance. Lance Stroll is a Formula 1 driver. If we do go for a Lance, the dogs will come, but we can style it out if one of us decides we don’t really want to for whatever reason.

The dogs usually come up the horses with me of an evening. The other day in conversation, OH asked me what time I was doing the horses. Aled got all excited, but thought nothing of it. This morning, I was chatting to Mum on the phone, mentioned me and my friend were taking the horses out, and off he went again. Going to have to think of another code word now.
 
I knew a dog that ended up going nuts at the spelling....'doubleyew...'

We do a lot of spelling at training when instructing....tell your dog o-u-t, s-i-t, d-o-w-n, g-o-o-d. And lots in German as well lol.

Means the dogs don't act off our vocals and don't anticipate something happening.
 
I don’t have to say anything - I stand up from the sofa and that’s enough lol, they just know :D

It also happens when I shut my laptop (I don’t watch TV at all so I spend way too much time online!)

It works the other way too mind you, they know their morning routine during the week and once they’ve been let out, fed and watered they all take themselves off to bed for the day
 
My parents dogs always knew the Archers theme tune. :-)
The current bunch think standing up is an invitation, as has been said.
 
Yep my big rufty tufty boys know 'drinkies' and 'do your wee-wees and poo-poos'.

One also runs and hides when he hears me sigh 'ferfuc.....'
I'm sure peeps can guess which one :p
 
This is soon funny
Our terrier Willis takes himself to bed as soon as the telly is turned off 😀
The rest of them are ready for off if I even stand up 😁
 
The Westie has a huge vocabulary, the funniest one is when one of us asks the other if we fancy going to the pub, the Westie's ears prick up and if we then follow that with getting up, she jumps around very excited. We tell her that she's got to stay behind and she gets really cross, barks like crazy at us until we say OK, you can come.
 
I didn’t realise I’d taught mine “Right then” in the mornings means it’s time to get ready to go out. My little terrier knows what “get your coat on then” means too (even though she’s never worn one it’s something I say). She also knows what “you’re staying here” means which results in a sulk.
 
Another one that’s come to me. I haven’t even realised we’ve “trained” most of these. When we’re at the horses and I’ve finished my jobs, which both dogs seem to know, I call “in we get”. Doesn’t matter where we are within the fields, Luna will jump into the car gazelle like, and Aled will put his front legs up, and wait for me to lift his back end in. (He has a ramp, bir will not use it).
 
Boots and Tommy have worked out “do you need a wee?” And “can I have a kiss?”. Somehow I’ve taught Boots hand signals for directions and I don’t even know how I did it!
 
Mine knows brum brum and she loves going in the brum brum, go to bobos is bedtime. She is a rescue dog and when we first got her we made and pinned a dog dictionary to the fridge so we all used the same words.
 
Iv'e taught the Weim to '' get daddy '', this involves him charging into the bedroom and throwing himself on the bed to get Rob up, makes me laugh every time as i always hear'' ah get off me, not the nuts, ahhhhhh''.
When i want him to come or sit i only have to say the word zucchini , Zoo Plus sent 32 tubs of weird little snacks by mistake and they have zucchini in them, i used them for training and i have so many that he only has to hear the word and he comes back instantly and sits down, lol, i quite enjoy saying the word too, it sort of rolls off the tongue nicely!!
 
I can't say cats, kitty, squirrel or pigeon as it has Laska leaping to her feet shrieking ' where'. The wild pigeon who comes every day is now called Simon, she has very quickly added this to her vocabulary! Bedtime word causes total collapse on her back with her feet in the air.
 
I only have to take my glasses off and the dog legs it down the hall expecting me to go out back to see to the horses, she knows the word dinner as well so we have to use a code word when talking about our dinner or she goes running out to her bowl.

She knows biscuit as well taught her that one fairly early in her life so when off the lead I just yell it and she comes back.
 
My greyhounds barely do anything on command but my dad's terriers know quite a variety.

"truck" means go get in the car, if the door isn't open then they wait for it to be opened. It's quite useful when at the shooting ground as you can send them to the truck from quite a distance to get them out of the way!!!
 
Oh yes! When I was a little girl we had a lab that quickly learned the word "treat", so we started using "bone", then we had to switch it up to "milk" (they were milkbone treats if you couldn't guess). Then we had to switch to spelling. I swear, some dogs are much smarter than most humans.
 
Wees and poos makes them run outside. Is it makes them run to the treat box. They run upstairs if I ask them to get daddy. Is there makes them gallop to the pond (is there fish in the pond=Bear’s favourite past time is staring at them) There are so many cue words! We have to speak in code constantly.
 
Not words, but my older retriever absolutely loses her mind when OH heads towards the shotgun cabinet. When he was going clay shooting last week I had to take the girls on a walk so he could get his guns out and into the truck without getting her hopes up.
 
Lady goes for a "weee peee" Particularity useful when its raining and she needs encouragement to go out.

I also cant touch my purse. If I dare, she goes mental! She associates it with takeaway food delivery... ( not that she gets any, but people bringing food to the house is the most exciting thing ever!)
 
We have to spell walk, dinner, feed, vet, bath, out & probably more i've forgotten. It's gotten to the stage we say "Will you you-know-what the you-know-whats" & they still understand! I can't stand up, close the laptop, put on a baseball cap, or say the word "Right!" without causing great excitement.
 
Not words, but my older retriever absolutely loses her mind when OH heads towards the shotgun cabinet. When he was going clay shooting last week I had to take the girls on a walk so he could get his guns out and into the truck without getting her hopes up.

Ours go mad at the beep of the key safe that has the cabinet keys in. I forgot that one.
 
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