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weeellll, they are, tho both castrated. The trouble is, the older one sees mounting the other one as a way of establishing dominance.

After dinner he has his beer, and after the beer, lurve, unless the younger dog remembers to sit down.

Re: Are your pets bilingual?
 

Our 3 dogs are all bilingual, they are all from the beginning pure Spanish dogs and understand of course Spanish. Sometimes it seems that they understand it better than me. But they had no problems to learn Swedish (we speak Swedish at home). I have not yet tried to learn them any other language, but we had a Finnish visitor who had some sausages whit here - and they had no problem to communicate at all.:eek:

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My dogs understand Spanish mostly, that's what they were trained with before I came along! In fact the first Spanish words I learnt were dog commands!

They understand baja and quieta alli (spelt right?).

They swap fairly well between sit and siéntate, especially at dinner times (they know the drill, I won't give them dinner otherwise). They know vamos and ben aqui, but often I say "come on" and they do well with that too. Actually it works better if I use all three sometimes, alternating between them

Early on I'd tell them "callate", which they were used to but they didn't listen to me when I said that. One day I just said "shutup" and they understood! I think because shutup is from my native language and callate isn't, it can "embody the energy" better.

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so lests get this straight.your dogs understand anything in any lingo.dosnt it tell you something about pet owners.Its a bit like the copper who stopped me the other night.My dog tells me your on drugs he said.i replyed on drugs.me on drugs.your the one with the talking dog :rofl:

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Our two understand English, Spanish German and Italian with no problems. All intonation for us... with a mix of hand signals too. The older one does get more excited about Spanish though.

I've spoken English to Spanish dogs I've come across when out hiking and they're cool with it.

Elle xx

PS: But as other have said... doesn't mean they'll always do as they're told!

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you see my point.pet owners are on totaly different planet.:huh:

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Yep, our dog barked in Irish on St-Patrick's Day last Thursday. We brought him to Spain last year and he had no difficulty in communication with Spanish bitches. He go pretty amorous with a dog from England also. I am reliably informed that the English dog was not bilingual.

I hope the English (sorry England) rugby team is not "bilingual" today against us.

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Maybe, but not quite barking mad. ;)

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bilingual my bum.my mate had a english dog who couldnt even understand english.evey time they went to peoples houses you would hear him shouting at the dog.....You drity bastard. I said Sit:rofl: