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cmrdporcupine on Oct 29, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why do dogs tilt their heads? New study offers clu...

Our border collies know so many variants of "outside", "walk", "W-A-L-K" spelled out, "woods" (our back woods), "garden", etc. and N number of other words and are at the door before I even know that I'm going there, myself.

scollet on Oct 30, 2021 | [–]

That's pretty amazing.

We've adopted "treaties???" for rewarding our current dog and it works doubly to get her to distill that energy for a little bit.

avisser on Oct 29, 2021 | [–]

This hits home. I learned a new word when my mom started talking about "perambulation" around my Aussie to avoid premature excitement.

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