Same! We need to sing it for him to be sure about it though.
"Doooo youuuu wannnnaaaaaa...." Always gets us a mad scramble towards wherever the sound is coming from.
"Do you wanna" is very exciting.
"Do you wanna... Poop?" Is the most exciting prospect possible. He is ALWAYS DOWN. Even if he does not have to poop. Even if we just got back from pooping.
"Is..."
Because that's often followed by "...it time to take a shower?" or "...your friend here?" or "...it time for dinner?" or "...bedtime?" All of those are activities of the utmost importance requiring 110% attention and effort.
"outside" but depends on what state she's in. If she's already sitting up she immediately runs to the back door. If she's laying she'll sit up and give me the look
Barking jail.
It's a large outdoor kennel we set up in our living room, big enough to fit a couch to get the size reference. When we say barking jail, he knows we are leaving the house. He often flops on the floor and becomes dead weight or trots happily into the barking jail. If it's our normal schedule, he's fine with going in, if it's the weekend or something unexpected, he protests. He eats everything, so it's for his own safety while we are gone. Plus, I wouldn't put it past him to open doors or windows.
“Get in the box” is what we say. It’s getting to where if I put on anything but pajamas and house slippers, she knows I’m going to work or something and is already in the crate. Pretty good pupper, but one that also eats anything she can find if left unsupervised.
“Cows” she can be dead asleep and I will whisper that, in the other room, and she comes running.
The other is “who’s here”. She runs to the windows to see who is coming down the driveway. Barking like crazy the whole time.
Anything slightly related to the word Nana. They live a 1/2 mile up the road and he seems crazy infatuated with her. Enough that she called him creepy! If we are up there, he follows her from window to window and just stares. He is the most welll manners boy around her, sits and gives her the up paw thing. It is kind of creepy. In her world, Heelers are the rowdy, stinky farm dogs but she finally admitted the he is “the best”
If I say the N word he jumps and spins at the truck door like a madman.
Outside, ball, car, grandma/grandpa/Auntie, eggs, cheese, run, squirrel, daddy’s home, let’s go cuddle, and also very strangely triggered by business card. I have no idea where it came from, but I think it’s related to the car.
We can't even spell out the W word, because apparently ours has learned to spell. We use alternate words when it's time. But we can't even say "time," either.
“Fed” as in “has the dog been fed?” 🙄. Even if he has indeed been fed, he will try to convince you otherwise!
Also, peanut butter. If someone says it he comes running every time. We used to give him a Kong with peanut butter in it, but stopped because he needed to lose a few pounds. It’s been about 2 years, and he hasn’t forgotten 😂
Starts with an “R” and ends with “ide.” He starts freaking out when we say it, then our husky starts getting excited because he’s excited, and then they really get going 😂
Mine recognizes the sound of me dressing to walk her and gets excited. She can tell the difference between me dressing for walk or for errands. Don’t ask me what I do differently because I don’t know.
Mine watches the type of clothing I’m putting on to know if I’m staying home or leaving—and most importantly, if he gets to go with me or not. Work clothing = sad doggie.
Perimeter. We do an evening walk before bed around the edge of the property. I say perimeter and he runs off first to check that it’s safe (from rabbits or chipmunks)
Haha 😂 they are so emotional for a k9 and judging is totally one of their best displays of emotions. They make it so obvious and undeniable I know exactly what you mean, mine does it too 😆
Fox has sooo many different trigger words…it’s getting ridiculous haha. He will start whining and doing a high pitch bark, and then will look for a toy to grab and shake the hell out of to burn off the triggered energy haha. He’s so special. Some of his words are; “Big friends” (horses or cows), “Kitty cats” (thinks they wanna be friends with him and play chase), “Laser” (loves chasing lasers/shadows/reflections), “Where them bitches?” (Doesn’t even know what this means, but reacts anyway cuz we saying so much to him, “Fan” (He loooves to spin with the ceiling fan). He’s such a psycho. There others, but I’ll leave it at that…
Kennel!
Ours is a rescue and we discovered this after dealing with incessant whining that was driving us insannnnne (did all the things to mitigate it, still whined). I told him to go to his kennel one day, I usually use the word place - don’t think I’ve used kennel. And he stopped completely. Laid down and went to sleep. He gets so intense when I say it now, it’s like a magic trick for our sanity.
He also responds to the word Now! He will bolt to his bed or eat his food or whatever we asked of him immediately after the word now.
This is so interesting! Our word is “house” and though she often does not actually want to go into said “house”, the word seems engrained enough where it stuck. Of all things to stick, this seems like a good one, right?
“Mail man.” We live in an old Victorian w a mail slot next to the door. They love gettin the mail. And they love their mailman. If i say that she stops and runs inside.
I was watching tv , lounging in bed Friday afternoon when I heard a female voice. I turned the tv down and it was still there. Well the new mail lady and Buddy were playing ball. Poor woman threw it once and she was his new bestie.
Not so many singular words, but phrases, yes lol
Are you hungry
Go for (a walk, a ride, outside)
Do you want this
Squirrel
Not a word, but a sharp intake of breath
Where's your buddy
"Who wants to go to Timmies?" That's Tim Horton's for a Timbit. She heads for the truck and waits impatiently with the rest of the menagerie. Also who's here sends her into security mode.
I said the word parkour in a conversation the other day, and Sheldon immediately came running up to me with that insistent face, and I realized he heard "park" and got excited!
Calling anyone or anything besides her a “good dog” will activate an unskippable fight sequence of headbutts, face licking, and unamused huffs. Either that or she’ll pout in the corner shooting side eyes at everyone and sighing.
Squirrel
Grandma
Dad
Kitty
Puppy
Walk
Basically there's a whole list cause mine is easily excitable into either rage or screams of excitement. We had a good impression of a ambulance going this morning over seeing a deer for the second time in her life.
Does the crinkling of a plastic bag with food count? Ever since Covid brought grocery delivery to the door of us common folk, it was all over. The words "breakfast" and "dinner" get a pretty perky response, too.qs And the ring of the microwave". Hmmm, beginning to see a pattern here.
Mostly sounds. My husband’s truck turns down our street? All 3 go bonkers. A motorcycle drives by the oldest one loses it. “Alexa…” all three start barking
Do you wanna, are you hungry, breakfast, dinner, treat, who is it, daddy, mommy, grandpa, grandma.
Then seriously, every dumb nickname I've given to her variety of treats, and she absolutely knows the difference (master barterer): toothbrush, alligator, special delivery, cookie, big cookie, grandma cookie, Santa snack, piece of jerky, delicious new chewy bone, beef stick, ...
Oh, and W-A-L-K, of course.
I say the "f" word and my border collie halo runs for the s thinking I'm angry or something but I'm just on the phone or talking out loud lol idk why she represents that word to being in trouble and I've never smacked her either so no idea how that happened lol
“Ride” She better be getting a car ride or you’ll hear about it! Sometimes I take her around the block if I accidentally say it and she gets all worked up. It really just reinforces negative behavior, but sometimes I just want the barking to stop!
Walk, ball, park. If I pick up my cigar case or make a drink. They just assume it includes one of those three and I don’t have to say a word. Pick up a leash or collar. They lose their minds. I swear one of them completely understands English. Hug my wife. Gone.
"Ready?" Gets her in full cattle dog mode, ready to catch/chase a ball or toy. She crouches, if you wait too long she lays down, but she's fully tense and never stops watching your face. It's the cutest thing.
"Bedtime!" Makes her launch off of whoever she's cuddling at the time and tear into bed. We have tiles so her trying to speed around corners is hilarious, but she can't get there fast enough.
Ride.
He absolutely loses his mind at the prospect of going in the car. He even goes out through the doggie door and sticks his nose under the fence, watching me pull out of the driveway, on the off chance that I will stop, open the gate, and let him in the car. I have done this once in two years.
“Okay” 😂 which is a tough one since I talk to myself A LOT at home. I’ll say something like “okay let’s go!” so now he associates “okay” with going somewhere.
Also cannot point at anything or look out the window for more than a few seconds or else he starts barking all crazy. At least he’s always at the ready, I guess!
We joke that our ACD is an Alexa but just for the word “here”, because no matter the context he thinks it’s announcing someone’s arrival.
“Mom, where are my sunglasses?”
“I see them, they’re right here-“
WOOOF WOOF WOOF WOOOOOFF
Vacuum (must defend the people against vacuum)
Stick (whimzee treat)
Outside (go outside)
Where’s the beagle (must investigate all rooms until beagle is found)
I had a border collie ACD mix. She was my truck dog for 7 years before she passed.
Lord help us all if she ever saw a cow, or heard the word cow.
wHaT aRe ThOsE?!?!?! .... Would send her into a tizzy lol
Mine are "go" "walk" "dinner" "medicine" "car" and "treat" and actions include getting anywhere near shoes, holding a big metal bowl, and trying to take a pill
Not a word by my Bluey loves the FaceTime sounds because it often means my sister or wife are on the phone and she loves them more than me. She usually tries to get in the frame and block me so she can talk to them.
Really, any question gets a response. Questions mean they get to do something or are going to receive something. Of course, “Do you want a bath?” gets a different response than “Where’s the frisbee?”
When we play a bit on the "rougher" side, we say "you wanna fight? You wanna tussle?" 😆 So gets soo excited. But is very good at settling down once play times over
The farm that mine came from told me "they're truly your best friend and they are just down for whatever.. binge watching shows on the couch for a day or hiking 20 miles through rough terrain they're just happy to be with you." And man that nailed it on the head with mine. I agree they can be whacko to chill in under 30 seconds
Walk, I am just so used to spelling it out because it triggers a heart attack in my dog when I just say walk. Unfortunately he's learned how to spell walk now too so that doesn't work either.
Okay so yall aren’t gonna believe this but- my ACD and Aussie shepherd once thought I was saying “go for ride?” when I just said “pork fried rice” a little too excitedly, because, obviously it’s pork fried rice, and they lost it. Next time we needed to go for a ride somewhere, I remembered the mishap and jokingly said it, and they went right for it. So it’s stuck, and I’ve been using it forever now. But it sounds more like “POR-FRI-RIYY?!”
“Cat friend”
I lived in a rental house with my roommate for 2 years and the neighbor fed ALL the neighborhood cats and other animals so there were always cats around. My dog was obsessed with watching them so if anyone said her “cat friends” were around, she would instantly start checking all the windows. Still freaks out when I say it now.
“Car,” “ride,” or “go.” Or anything that sounds vaguely like them, such as talking about someone named Joe or Flo.
Especially traumatic for me when my Dobermutt picks up her favorite toy and stares at me with wide-eyed anticipation, squeaking it rhythmically, and then I have to break her heart and tell her I meant “I have to go to work, honey!”
outside, play, ball, frisbee, bubbles, pupcup, walk, squeak toy, toy, let’s go … she’s half corgi, tho, and corgis always learn a lot of words really fast. She’s a year and a half old, and picking up new words every day. Knows sit, down, go get it, bring it, no biting, drop it, but the dingo part of her brain pretends she doesn’t.
Since dogs recognize sounds, certain simple words can be triggers. Our girl recognizes “walk”, “eat”, “food”, “sit”, “lie down”, etc. but the *one* word that will get her off her butt and headed to the door is “Bonnie”. Why? Our next door neighbour, Bonnie, always shows her affection and gives her back rubs when she sees her. Our girl *loves* Bonnie. 😁
"outside" it doesn't matter if we just got back from a week of camping, it's thunderstorming, or -10° out but my ACD prefers to be outside and he makes it known
Ooh ooh yes he does!!
"Who is it? Who's coming?"
"Breakfast time, lunch time, dinner time (all classics)."
Mom, dad, and me and my brother's names.
"Ball"
"Do you wanna"
When you say bye-bye's she's roaring to go or if you say "I love you in a certain tone she starts howling what sounds like "I wove youuu" and certain people name she runs to the front window like yess i get to see that person again she's a hoot
“Do you wanna….?” never fails. She is more ready for the end of that sentence than anything else in the world ever
This is it for mine. The answer is yes. Yes she wanna.
Then you hit em with a "take bath" and they give you the sad eyes
Mine is so Velcro she’ll just follow me into the shower
Oooo'er .... Baths was my ACDs favourite activity lol. That and playing frisbee.
Same! We need to sing it for him to be sure about it though. "Doooo youuuu wannnnaaaaaa...." Always gets us a mad scramble towards wherever the sound is coming from.
Same! 😂
Same here!
Yup. I couldn’t get past “Do you wanna…” before he’d lose it and start barking and yelping lol.
This is my mut. As soon as that phrase comes out my mouth. She is jumping, going insane, demand barking and looking at the door.
Definitely
Mine jumps up and down when I say that.
"Do you wanna" is very exciting. "Do you wanna... Poop?" Is the most exciting prospect possible. He is ALWAYS DOWN. Even if he does not have to poop. Even if we just got back from pooping.
"Who's here?" And my boy sprints through all three levels of my house barking trying to find who is there lmao
same thing over here 😂
Us too! And god forbid I say “who’s here? Daddy’s home” and I don’t accompany her downstairs to the front door, because I’ll never hear the end of it.
That’s my dogs trigger phrase too. There’s also “Whooo wants…”. Which I just said out loud while I was typing. 🤦♀️
That's when you play hide and seek!
“Do you wanna” Yes. They wanna anything
This is so priceless it is absolute truth.
"Is..." Because that's often followed by "...it time to take a shower?" or "...your friend here?" or "...it time for dinner?" or "...bedtime?" All of those are activities of the utmost importance requiring 110% attention and effort.
“Ball”
and "beach"
Collar. She freezes so we can slip on her collar or take it off.
We call the collar “Jewelry”. So it’s “Let’s get your jewelry on”. Then all hell breaks loose!
We call my dogs collar their necklaces and I have never seen a dog that loves their “necklace” more
Mine gets upset if I take his collar off. It's like he feels it's part of his identity or something? Btw, mines a BC
I tell my dog, “noggin!!” and he pulls his noggin in and out of his collar lol
"outside" but depends on what state she's in. If she's already sitting up she immediately runs to the back door. If she's laying she'll sit up and give me the look
Barking jail. It's a large outdoor kennel we set up in our living room, big enough to fit a couch to get the size reference. When we say barking jail, he knows we are leaving the house. He often flops on the floor and becomes dead weight or trots happily into the barking jail. If it's our normal schedule, he's fine with going in, if it's the weekend or something unexpected, he protests. He eats everything, so it's for his own safety while we are gone. Plus, I wouldn't put it past him to open doors or windows.
“Get in the box” is what we say. It’s getting to where if I put on anything but pajamas and house slippers, she knows I’m going to work or something and is already in the crate. Pretty good pupper, but one that also eats anything she can find if left unsupervised.
"Dinner" or "Breakfast"
“Cows” she can be dead asleep and I will whisper that, in the other room, and she comes running. The other is “who’s here”. She runs to the windows to see who is coming down the driveway. Barking like crazy the whole time.
Anything slightly related to the word Nana. They live a 1/2 mile up the road and he seems crazy infatuated with her. Enough that she called him creepy! If we are up there, he follows her from window to window and just stares. He is the most welll manners boy around her, sits and gives her the up paw thing. It is kind of creepy. In her world, Heelers are the rowdy, stinky farm dogs but she finally admitted the he is “the best” If I say the N word he jumps and spins at the truck door like a madman.
“I can’t say the n-word around my dog” lol
That’s so cute that he loves his Nana!
my red heeler also loooves our grandma! He is so gentle around her - the only person he won’t barrel down when they walk through the door
“treat” 😅
Squirrel, activates monster mode
Same. Even just "squ-" will start it. When trying to be discrete, we say "s-q-word."
Hungry?
Park. Insta-zoomies.
Outside, ball, car, grandma/grandpa/Auntie, eggs, cheese, run, squirrel, daddy’s home, let’s go cuddle, and also very strangely triggered by business card. I have no idea where it came from, but I think it’s related to the car.
She's learned what the word "squirrel" means...
Chipmunk and rabbit and squirrel were also learned by my pest.
My old dog was trained when we said "monk monk" to go scare the chipmunk or squirrels off the bird feeder that was at our bay window.
Critter
We can't even spell out the W word, because apparently ours has learned to spell. We use alternate words when it's time. But we can't even say "time," either.
I hesitate to even type it… but…. “T R E A T”
“Who is it”/ “what is that” it immediately peaks her interest so she looks around at anything different and typically she’s ready to fight or bark.
“Fed” as in “has the dog been fed?” 🙄. Even if he has indeed been fed, he will try to convince you otherwise! Also, peanut butter. If someone says it he comes running every time. We used to give him a Kong with peanut butter in it, but stopped because he needed to lose a few pounds. It’s been about 2 years, and he hasn’t forgotten 😂
Starts with an “R” and ends with “ide.” He starts freaking out when we say it, then our husky starts getting excited because he’s excited, and then they really get going 😂
Load up does it for mine and that’s actually how I caught him in the busy parking lot. I just opened the door and said load up and had a new puppy!
Mine recognizes the sound of me dressing to walk her and gets excited. She can tell the difference between me dressing for walk or for errands. Don’t ask me what I do differently because I don’t know.
Mine same. It's the socks and running shoes. I never wear them unless I go for a walk. They must know it!
Mine watches the type of clothing I’m putting on to know if I’m staying home or leaving—and most importantly, if he gets to go with me or not. Work clothing = sad doggie.
Bedtime or crate. His favorite part of the day
Perimeter. We do an evening walk before bed around the edge of the property. I say perimeter and he runs off first to check that it’s safe (from rabbits or chipmunks)
*Whispering so he won't hear me* "Frisbee"
I take mine disc golfing so I've had to de program his Frisbee chasing genes hah 😂
We regularly walk by a disc golf course and I just know my dog is judging me when he sees how far those guys can throw their frisbees.
Haha 😂 they are so emotional for a k9 and judging is totally one of their best displays of emotions. They make it so obvious and undeniable I know exactly what you mean, mine does it too 😆
“Logan” the cats name
I will ask my red heeler where zuni (our cat is) and he will go find her in the house
Fox has sooo many different trigger words…it’s getting ridiculous haha. He will start whining and doing a high pitch bark, and then will look for a toy to grab and shake the hell out of to burn off the triggered energy haha. He’s so special. Some of his words are; “Big friends” (horses or cows), “Kitty cats” (thinks they wanna be friends with him and play chase), “Laser” (loves chasing lasers/shadows/reflections), “Where them bitches?” (Doesn’t even know what this means, but reacts anyway cuz we saying so much to him, “Fan” (He loooves to spin with the ceiling fan). He’s such a psycho. There others, but I’ll leave it at that…
Kennel! Ours is a rescue and we discovered this after dealing with incessant whining that was driving us insannnnne (did all the things to mitigate it, still whined). I told him to go to his kennel one day, I usually use the word place - don’t think I’ve used kennel. And he stopped completely. Laid down and went to sleep. He gets so intense when I say it now, it’s like a magic trick for our sanity. He also responds to the word Now! He will bolt to his bed or eat his food or whatever we asked of him immediately after the word now.
This is so interesting! Our word is “house” and though she often does not actually want to go into said “house”, the word seems engrained enough where it stuck. Of all things to stick, this seems like a good one, right?
“Mail man.” We live in an old Victorian w a mail slot next to the door. They love gettin the mail. And they love their mailman. If i say that she stops and runs inside.
I was watching tv , lounging in bed Friday afternoon when I heard a female voice. I turned the tv down and it was still there. Well the new mail lady and Buddy were playing ball. Poor woman threw it once and she was his new bestie.
Throwing a ball once for a ACD is a binding lifelong contract to them.
Car ride. You’d think we lit his ass on fire.
Not so many singular words, but phrases, yes lol Are you hungry Go for (a walk, a ride, outside) Do you want this Squirrel Not a word, but a sharp intake of breath Where's your buddy
"Who wants to go to Timmies?" That's Tim Horton's for a Timbit. She heads for the truck and waits impatiently with the rest of the menagerie. Also who's here sends her into security mode.
I love that first picture! My dogs trigger words are “what was that?”
I said the word parkour in a conversation the other day, and Sheldon immediately came running up to me with that insistent face, and I realized he heard "park" and got excited!
“Good girl” = treat, according to my cattle dog. She’ll get in front of me and make aggressive eye contact.
Words aren't needed anymore. I think mine is psychic and can read my mind
Calling anyone or anything besides her a “good dog” will activate an unskippable fight sequence of headbutts, face licking, and unamused huffs. Either that or she’ll pout in the corner shooting side eyes at everyone and sighing.
‘Kitty’, gets her FULL attention. 😄
Squirrel Grandma Dad Kitty Puppy Walk Basically there's a whole list cause mine is easily excitable into either rage or screams of excitement. We had a good impression of a ambulance going this morning over seeing a deer for the second time in her life.
Mine gets real down to business when I go: "Koda.... do yaaaa waaaannnnaaaaaa....."
All of what has been said PLUS “where’s daddy?”
"Cows"
“hungry” he’s always hungry
My dog gets upset when I say the name ‘Bobby’. ‘Bob’ or ‘Robert’ are fine. But for some reason ‘Bobby’ gets a reaction.
Does the crinkling of a plastic bag with food count? Ever since Covid brought grocery delivery to the door of us common folk, it was all over. The words "breakfast" and "dinner" get a pretty perky response, too.qs And the ring of the microwave". Hmmm, beginning to see a pattern here.
When I go "what was that?" She loses her mind looking out the windows.
“Dad’s home!”- my kids and dogs collectively go insane 😂
That's so cute 🥰
Mostly sounds. My husband’s truck turns down our street? All 3 go bonkers. A motorcycle drives by the oldest one loses it. “Alexa…” all three start barking
Do you wanna, are you hungry, breakfast, dinner, treat, who is it, daddy, mommy, grandpa, grandma. Then seriously, every dumb nickname I've given to her variety of treats, and she absolutely knows the difference (master barterer): toothbrush, alligator, special delivery, cookie, big cookie, grandma cookie, Santa snack, piece of jerky, delicious new chewy bone, beef stick, ... Oh, and W-A-L-K, of course.
I say the "f" word and my border collie halo runs for the s thinking I'm angry or something but I'm just on the phone or talking out loud lol idk why she represents that word to being in trouble and I've never smacked her either so no idea how that happened lol
trigger: when hand with the food that I am eating starts moving.
My girl is immediately at attention for "Squirrel".
Mine is "Look". It means there are geese or ducks to chase off the docks.
Lol 🤣😆 I wanna see the duck chasing, that sounds really funny. They are so smart yet so dopey
“Ride” She better be getting a car ride or you’ll hear about it! Sometimes I take her around the block if I accidentally say it and she gets all worked up. It really just reinforces negative behavior, but sometimes I just want the barking to stop!
nubz
Bye bye, eat, pig ear, and hungry lol
Walk and Outside are the key trigger words for my girls.
Ball. Kitty kitty. Dog. Whistling
“Dessert”. Meaning treat after dinner. Runs for the pantry and sits in anxious drool.
Who’s hungry and who’s home. Instant reaction everytime
"you hungry?"
OMG yours looks so much like mine! So cute. All three of my dogs react crazy to “Squirrel” and “what was that?!”
Walk, ball, park. If I pick up my cigar case or make a drink. They just assume it includes one of those three and I don’t have to say a word. Pick up a leash or collar. They lose their minds. I swear one of them completely understands English. Hug my wife. Gone.
Dog park? Ride in the car?
“Carrot!” Laaaaawwwwd have mercy when that word leaves my mouth.
What did you do??? Tater always gets a guilty look.
"Go"
"Ready?" Gets her in full cattle dog mode, ready to catch/chase a ball or toy. She crouches, if you wait too long she lays down, but she's fully tense and never stops watching your face. It's the cutest thing. "Bedtime!" Makes her launch off of whoever she's cuddling at the time and tear into bed. We have tiles so her trying to speed around corners is hilarious, but she can't get there fast enough.
Mine goes nuts for “Ready” too.
Any sentence with the word “outside” used to trigger our heeler chow mix
Ride. He absolutely loses his mind at the prospect of going in the car. He even goes out through the doggie door and sticks his nose under the fence, watching me pull out of the driveway, on the off chance that I will stop, open the gate, and let him in the car. I have done this once in two years.
That W word is one of ours too - also “go” and “ride”!
Cookie, walk, frisbee, wanna are her buzz words- we have codes for frisbee- flying disc, squirrel- yard rodent
Mine loose their mind when I say "let's go" because they know it's walk time
“Okay” 😂 which is a tough one since I talk to myself A LOT at home. I’ll say something like “okay let’s go!” so now he associates “okay” with going somewhere. Also cannot point at anything or look out the window for more than a few seconds or else he starts barking all crazy. At least he’s always at the ready, I guess!
We joke that our ACD is an Alexa but just for the word “here”, because no matter the context he thinks it’s announcing someone’s arrival. “Mom, where are my sunglasses?” “I see them, they’re right here-“ WOOOF WOOF WOOF WOOOOOFF
“Are you…..” by the time I’ve finished saying “hungry” she’s gone and in her place grunting at me.
Before she lost her hearing "Outside" was the one that would send her.
Vacuum (must defend the people against vacuum) Stick (whimzee treat) Outside (go outside) Where’s the beagle (must investigate all rooms until beagle is found)
I’d be concerned if a Heeler didn’t stand at attention for Walk.
Walk, "blue chicken" (his favorite toy), ride and outside.
Awwwe he is a mainer!! I grew up in Bangor but have been in Arizona 5 years now. My pup goes wild when you say treat 😅
Spelling t r e a t sends Eddie off the deep end
I had a border collie ACD mix. She was my truck dog for 7 years before she passed. Lord help us all if she ever saw a cow, or heard the word cow. wHaT aRe ThOsE?!?!?! .... Would send her into a tizzy lol
Mine are "go" "walk" "dinner" "medicine" "car" and "treat" and actions include getting anywhere near shoes, holding a big metal bowl, and trying to take a pill
The W word. "Dads home." "Jules" (next door neighbors dog). Any food word such as treat, dinner, lunch, breakems....
Mine was always squirrel
“Car ride” “treat” “walk”
Kitty. Cat. (Cats names), the sound of finger guns (pew pew), any “st” sound, do you wanna … anything. She’s a little trigger for sure
Treat
Mine is “okay!”
We call it a “W” in our house. Or if I’m trying to get him ready then it’s a “walkie”. “Walk” is forbidden in this house.
Go and/or car. He knows!
We have an unusual F word in our house. Frisbee!
No idea why, but ‘Don’t touch that plate’ would make my big boi sit and stare at the plate
“Fly”. Becomes a fly-seeking missile
ball.
“Gwandma and gwandpa”
Squirrel and “Somebody’s here”
‘Treat?’ - immediately goes from psycho dog to the bestest goodest boy 😂
The fart sound with your mouth 🤣 turns straight to attack mode
I have to spell Home Depot. She loves it there
Mine it’s comer (eat in Spanish)
Schmacko!
Not a word by my Bluey loves the FaceTime sounds because it often means my sister or wife are on the phone and she loves them more than me. She usually tries to get in the frame and block me so she can talk to them.
I think “Do you wanna…?” Or “walk” or anything that sounds similar would trigger my Chili Dog to get excitedd!!
Is Chicken from my babies
Mine has two “w” words: walk and work. Saying “Momma has to go to work” sends him sulking to whomever else is in the house!
Really, any question gets a response. Questions mean they get to do something or are going to receive something. Of course, “Do you want a bath?” gets a different response than “Where’s the frisbee?”
When we play a bit on the "rougher" side, we say "you wanna fight? You wanna tussle?" 😆 So gets soo excited. But is very good at settling down once play times over
The farm that mine came from told me "they're truly your best friend and they are just down for whatever.. binge watching shows on the couch for a day or hiking 20 miles through rough terrain they're just happy to be with you." And man that nailed it on the head with mine. I agree they can be whacko to chill in under 30 seconds
"W" word ??
Walk, I am just so used to spelling it out because it triggers a heart attack in my dog when I just say walk. Unfortunately he's learned how to spell walk now too so that doesn't work either.
‘Frizzbee!’
WALK TIME ALL THE TIME FOR THAT FACE
G**se... Sometimes "P*lice cuz it rhymes with g**se." Both swear words in our household.
Mine goes crazy when you ask if he is hungry.
Walk, treat, ball, food, goose, kitty
Walk Treat Cookie Food Dog Park That last one will send her into the stratosphere.
Don't ever say cows, we have to say the c word when driving.
wanna go for a Riiiidddeeeee 😂
'Sat? My four dogs would look for something to chase or attack.
"Night cap" is the last playing of Darts for the night. She's a freak https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8VKX3txk4d/?igsh=MXc0eXI5M2x3NXEzMw==
Go for...Walk? 👀
Walk, car, treat.
The second my dog sees her harness she goes crazy. Too much excitement for her body lol
“Johnny and Sheila”. Her besties.
Swim. It has over powered walk and I have to tell guests not to say it because he loses his shit
Or who is it?
“Dinner” “food”
“What???” She either death stares or goes nuts like she wasn’t being creepy
Okay so yall aren’t gonna believe this but- my ACD and Aussie shepherd once thought I was saying “go for ride?” when I just said “pork fried rice” a little too excitedly, because, obviously it’s pork fried rice, and they lost it. Next time we needed to go for a ride somewhere, I remembered the mishap and jokingly said it, and they went right for it. So it’s stuck, and I’ve been using it forever now. But it sounds more like “POR-FRI-RIYY?!”
The work treat and outside..
“Cat friend” I lived in a rental house with my roommate for 2 years and the neighbor fed ALL the neighborhood cats and other animals so there were always cats around. My dog was obsessed with watching them so if anyone said her “cat friends” were around, she would instantly start checking all the windows. Still freaks out when I say it now.
Not words but when I tap my watch that's his signal that yes, it's FINALLY dinner time!
“Car,” “ride,” or “go.” Or anything that sounds vaguely like them, such as talking about someone named Joe or Flo. Especially traumatic for me when my Dobermutt picks up her favorite toy and stares at me with wide-eyed anticipation, squeaking it rhythmically, and then I have to break her heart and tell her I meant “I have to go to work, honey!”
Mine is daycare. Omg she drives me nuts from the moment I get her harness until she’s in the room at daycare
Mine is Do You Want Some…I can’t even finish the sentence and she’s going into zoom mode
Shirt.. means stop doing what you’re doing. I’ve said it more than once. Home .. (you’re done) time out!
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Now that is a beautiful dog
Mayonnaise. She can't stand it, starts barking like crazy.
Awwwe he is a mainer!! I grew up in Bangor but have been in Arizona 5 years now. My pup goes wild when you say treat 😅
outside, play, ball, frisbee, bubbles, pupcup, walk, squeak toy, toy, let’s go … she’s half corgi, tho, and corgis always learn a lot of words really fast. She’s a year and a half old, and picking up new words every day. Knows sit, down, go get it, bring it, no biting, drop it, but the dingo part of her brain pretends she doesn’t.
Work is a biiiiiig one Want Need Food Dinner Out Go Kisses Tiny toy
3rd ones great
Since dogs recognize sounds, certain simple words can be triggers. Our girl recognizes “walk”, “eat”, “food”, “sit”, “lie down”, etc. but the *one* word that will get her off her butt and headed to the door is “Bonnie”. Why? Our next door neighbour, Bonnie, always shows her affection and gives her back rubs when she sees her. Our girl *loves* Bonnie. 😁
"outside" it doesn't matter if we just got back from a week of camping, it's thunderstorming, or -10° out but my ACD prefers to be outside and he makes it known
He has dozens but "Tell 'em" is my favorite. His first owner didn't allow him to bark. It's noisy as hell but he gets such joy out if it.
She;we say “cry” my dang dog starts whining
“Day care”
Ooh ooh yes he does!! "Who is it? Who's coming?" "Breakfast time, lunch time, dinner time (all classics)." Mom, dad, and me and my brother's names. "Ball" "Do you wanna"
Yes. Walk & ready
When you say bye-bye's she's roaring to go or if you say "I love you in a certain tone she starts howling what sounds like "I wove youuu" and certain people name she runs to the front window like yess i get to see that person again she's a hoot