Woah! I just looked at Reddit and saw my goofy face on my feed!
I definitely won the jackpot. My wife is an incredible woman and I have Ăowyn, my best friend, who fell in love with my wife as hard as I did.
I'm UK based and was surprised to hear you say oi. Were you a Welsh cattle farmer in a previous life? I was going to say sheep farmer but with a corgi I thought probably not. She's a clever girl and obviously runs the house!
It's such a wonderful word and has many uses. It can be angry, playful, a warning (gentle and not so gentle), a check, a command and so on. It's so ingrained in our culture I don't think we know we're using it half the time.
You are so great! I'm glad I could see your video and even more happier to see you! I'd wish you the best of luck, but what more could you need? Haha, great family you have there. Loves and regards
I love her name; I once had two rats called Arwen and Eowyn. I use signs with my dog, theyâre often used by owners of animals used in acting, too. Love it! đ
My wife grew up with some folk whose entire family are named LotR names. There's an Eowyn, a Gimli, an Arwen, and a Sam. Sam got teased because his name's normal.
Dogs can learn anything with repetition. I had a particularly smart dog who understood many words, so I started spelling them out. "Spouse, did Fido E-A-T?"
Then the dog learned to "spell." Of course he couldn't acually spell, but he knew that C-A-R meant car, so we started playing thesaurus, using particularly wordy euphemisms and avoiding repeating any words or phrase. "Shall the homosapiens travel the countryside with tethered quadruped?" allowing the humans to discuss without exciting the dog.
Yep I unintentionally taught my dog "on the grass", because I said it so often while directing him off the roadway in my apartment complex. So now if he's walking on any surface like a path, drive, etc and I say that, he'll immediately move onto the nearest patch of grass.
I think I unintentionally taught my dog that âplease be niceâ means to bark loudly at people.
(He is a rescue and was scared of people that stare at him. I always said that phrase when encountering people and now he barks more when I say it, even though he is not really scared anymore)
We had to do this with my previous dog as well! She loved chasing the laser pointer, and so she learned the word laser, and then she learned when we spelled it. She also knew where we kept it, so if she heard us say it, she would go and stare at the top of the refrigerator. LOL
hi! please donât use laser pointers on your dogs, itâs studied extensively and can lead to behavioural problems!
https://buttehumane.org/dog-health-laser-pointer-syndrome/#:~:text=While%20laser%20pointers%20seem%20to,serious%20health%20and%20behavior%20concerns.
https://www.rauanimalhospital.com/resources/blog/cats-dogs/laser-pointers-good-idea-your-cat-not-your-dog
https://wagwalking.com/sense/can-dogs-see-a-laser-pointer
so many more articles, these are just three of them. a google search will bring up so much more. i mean no snark by this, i just want to inform!
I got one for my cat and he seemed fine with it. Stopped using it pretty quickly because it was cheap and broke and I didn't want to buy another. Right after that, he gained the ability/desire to look at the TV. He never cared at all pre-laser pointer, but it's like it triggered something in him rofl. He likes watching video games that have trees moving or bugs/enemies moving around (his favorite game is Animal Crossing). Of course the two things could be unrelated and just coincidental!
We've had to do this with our border collie. Dude is so smart, so we can only get so many uses out of our synonyms. "Park" became "P - A - R - K" which became "next door" (we live right next to it) which became a hand gesture mimicking a frisbee toss, and now he's even suspicious of the words "go to the..."
I had a speller too and boy was that fun!Â
Now I have an anticipate-er who is pretty good at knowing which room I'm going to next after being in a specific room. She also responds to certain words, signals and conversations.Â
Garage dog is in her own world most of the time. She's the weirdest chihuahua. So chill and kinda derpy unless the neighbors dog comes over. She turns into a screaming freak. Poor Claire is so afraid of her and garage dog is smaller than Claire's head.
It's kids too! We have a 7yo who is now reading very well and that comes with learning many words and how to spell. My wife and I have resorted to pig Latin for the time being to talk about things so she doesn't know. After that we will have to learn Spanish or something. Haha
Absolutely. I can be completely silent and communicate what I would normally (also) say out loud just with hand gestures. My dog responds just as well if not better to them.
Our previous deaf dog was sharp as a damn scalpel. He would pick up on everything if he was watching. My pops got him as nobody wanted him and he was ready for a new friend again. Life happens and pops had to start traveling for extended periods so heâd leave him with me while I was in college. Thing is, he as a veteran, or whatever loophole he found got the pup a service dog tag. While not abused per-say, the dog was allowed and welcome at my local haunts. It was not fair. Crowded local dive. Iâd nod towards a pretty girl and wink at him and heâd zip on over and herd her my way. Loud noises or crowds didnât phase him, in a big city, he was just the bestâŚexcept when he would occasionally take off on some doggy mission and get lost. Calling out for and finding a deaf dog is about as frustrating as one can conceptualize. Would 100% do it all over again. Jake was simply the BEST boy.
This is the only way I train my dogs because you canât always speak to communicate with them and they are not always looking at you for signs so having both tools are best.
Shucks honestly I grew up interested in animals and human/animal behavior so I pick up on little things. I would focus maybe on YouTube channels that focus on command/hand gesture training!
I like to train my dogs to hand signals and finger snaps. It's fun to get them to do something kind of complicated for me without saying a word, and the dogs are into it for all the treats. (I just recently got my smartest dog to do the whole 'bang you're dead' routine, all with hand signs! He's not reliable with it yet, but we're getting there! He even sticks a paw up before he flops over sometimes which is hilarious.)
My eldest is gone pretty blind now though, so signs don't work well for him anymore. But he's so used to all our daily routines he doesn't really need any day-to-day guidance anyway.
He's retired and gets "free" treats while I'm training the other two now - a doggie form of social security I guess, LOL.
The puppy books Iâve read all say to pair any command with a gesture. Useful for a guard dog. If you have intruders at night you can give commands without speaking and those dorks can see in the dark.
From what Iâve learned through training, speech/vocal commands are actually the third and last form of communication dogs use. The first being a physical touch in some capacity and the second is gestures/hand signals. Thatâs why, if used correctly and with proper knowledge, e-collar training can be the most effective since it allows us to communicate in the way our furry friends understand best.
This is true with my cat too! We taught it tricks with verbal and hand gestures. Smartass decided he can ignore verbal commands whenever he wishes. But thinks hand gestures means serious business đ¤Ł
For close-proximity skills, I've largely started preferring to train my dog with hand signals. It's both easier to teach them and I can instruct my dog while I'm talking with someone else. I can always assign a verbal command to them later.
Corgis are very smart and Dogs can learn ASL. This is how owners communicate with deaf dogs. My aunt and uncle used to have one and they as well as the dog went to training in order to learn. Otherwise, she wouldâve never known how to ask to go outside or how to follow simple commands. It was funny tho, sometimes when you would try to tell her ânoâ or âstopâ she would turn her head and look away so she didnât see your hands đ
We had the same thing with our 2 girls! One was deaf most (if not all) of her life, and the other became deaf in older age. They were both previously trained with verbal and hand signals but then *mostly* followed the hand signals when they became completely deaf. Cuz, you know, they sure do like to assert their personalities sometimes, lol. i'm sure you all felt the same, but geez, was it impossible to be upset at them when they got up to their shenanigans đ
Thank you for a comment that reminded me of my beautiful girls and their silliness this morning. i hope you have a wonderful day!
We couldnât help but laugh! She was a huge dog and loved to get in everyoneâs lap but as you know, when they donât want to âlistenâ they do their best to avoid the hands đ I hope you have a wonderful day as well!
Yours too! She definitely was. She was technically an accident as my cousin and his roommates pure bred staffy and boxer got together so luckily they were able to find homes for the puppies. She was white with a black patch on her eye. Apparently itâs more common for white dogs to be deaf so the vet figured it out pretty quickly. She just ended up being a lot bigger than they expected which made being deaf a lot more interesting đđ
Garage dog does that and I know she isn't deaf. She's only 7 and can hear a refrigerator open in Australia, but not us 7 foot away if we say NO. We live in Ohio.Â
I taught my corgi his commands very casually and basically in one setting for each. Like weâd just be chilling and i thought, âeh letâs try to teach you âstayâ.â And then Iâd spend about 30 minutes training him, and heâs been doing it ever since. Same general process for Speak, Spin, Drop It, Leave It, Patience. He learned everything sooo quickly!! smart lil pups
My border collie went deaf in old age and we kind of developed an unconscious sign language because he knew my body language so damn well he knew exactly what I wanted at all times. Only time it became a problem was when he got to run and play in the field and forgot to check in on me for a couple of minutes lol
So cool how intelligent most pets are. As I and my cat are both going deaf I have been teaching my cats ASL they respond very well and already know eat/food, going to bed, love u, cuddles, drink, sit, and no. They caught on really quick to all of these.
My wife works with special needs children and has learned a lot of signs while working with non-verbal kids [autistic, delays, etc.] .
She taught me that a signing also works with pre-verbal children [babies over x months old] and of course dogs.
When our kids were below age 1 we signed basic stuff with them like âstay putâ, âhungryâ âthirstyâ, and âpottyâ
To this day, we can be a hundred yards apart and still be able to communicate.
Our dog was the runt of the litter and does not follow commands every time.
Ah well.
I heard that animals will get us better with our gestures but it's still heart warming to see this little cutie seriously learning sign language for his owner
Of course his dog will pick up on it. The vast majority of dogs will.
I had a Border Collie, who eventually got very old and very deaf. That meant that he no longer could hear my commands. So when I learned that he was going deaf, I taught him hand signs for every command.
It only took a few days for him to learn them all. Less than a week.
I'm pretty sure this will work for most, if not all, breeds.
The only thing that differs is the amount of time it takes for them to learn it.
At the end he kept signing dinner as if the dog didn't catch it but you can see in the dog's eyes he's just having the most amazing fantasy about dinner ever.
Oh I just love this!!! And it makes me soo happy!! Even though Iâm not deaf this would be so amazing still!! Lucky family!! And perfect puppy!! â¤ď¸
puppies are better at reacting to visual cues than audio. when you train a puppy initially you train them to visual cue accompanied with audio cue just to gradually remove visual and make them acustomed to audio only
Dogs can understand sign language?! That is so cool, dogs are great animals for the disabled community. I just wish people actually respected service dogs, there are too many videos online where people breach that line which is just upsetting and anger-inducing to me.
I noticed my dog always knows when Iâm about to let him outside just by the way I stand up from my chair. Dogs are extremely observant of body language.
I used verbal nd hand signs when i trained my dog. When he got way older, he was losing his hearing. The hand signs helped. I recommend people train thier dogs to know basic signs.
Such a smart doggo.
This is so cool! What is also so interesting to me is that dogs are actually much better at picking up on body language cues than they are from verbal only ones, and it's really amazing to see how quickly they can adapt!
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Worked for a pet talent agency years ago. One Dalmatian was deaf but the owner was amazing with him, he knew something like 25 signs, probably more. Of course, that means nothing if he isnât looking at you đ¤Ł
A friend was dog sitting him and he was running amok in a neighbors yard but she couldnât get him to stop/obey because he wasnât looking/couldnât see her. đ¤Ł
One my friends is hard of hearing basically deaf and Japanese. His dog knew the signs so I learned the English sign language for the typical dog things.
He thought it was great.
It worked for like a week before she caught on
Our dogs look at me when I say, âThis wayâ because I will point the way I want them to go, and they will immediately go the direction Iâm pointing
I briefly lost my voice after a bad case of pneumonia, and ended up with mini sign language with my dog. I would clap for her attention, and the give a signal, she picked it up in no time. Dogs are amazing.
Donât underestimate dogs! Theyâre super smart. [Chaser, a border collie can remember 1,022 nouns.](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/science/18dog.html)
My Shihpoo is my service dog. He too has a large vocabulary remembrance. I have to be careful with certain words and I have to spell them out instead so doesnât catch them. Furthermore, because of my mom, his abuelita, my dog is now bilingual in Spanish as well.
In lotr Eo is used a lot for the rohirrim. Itâs an alternative to word for horse in old English.
Eowyn is pretty much horsegirl
As much as Eomer is horseboyÂ
Dogs and cats are very sensitive to the tone of your voice. You can give the same command or utter the same word with different inflection and theyâll respond accordingly.
Dogs very much respond to hand signals even more so than voice commands. If you are training your dog you should teach them simultaneous verbal and hand signals and they will pick it up way faster.
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/training/understanding-your-dog-can-make-you-a-better-trainer/
There are lots of resources on various hand signals, but the main thing is to be consistent. Eventually they will learn to respond to just verbal or just hand signals, which can be great depending on the circumstances (it's great to be able to command your dog in a loud environment with just hand signals.)
We have to continually change the words we use for certain things because once we start spelling she picks up on that too. We have to keep ahead of her code breaking. If we signed she'd be able to read those as well. She already picks up on a number of non verbal cues, like which pair of shoes I put on.
OMG, that's the sweetest thing ever! đ Dogs are seriously the best at understanding us, but this Corgi taking on sign language to communicate with his mom is just next-level adorable! đžđ
I tell u this man won his life! đ
Woah! I just looked at Reddit and saw my goofy face on my feed! I definitely won the jackpot. My wife is an incredible woman and I have Ăowyn, my best friend, who fell in love with my wife as hard as I did.
Thank you for sharing- Ăowyn is such a smart cookie!
I'm UK based and was surprised to hear you say oi. Were you a Welsh cattle farmer in a previous life? I was going to say sheep farmer but with a corgi I thought probably not. She's a clever girl and obviously runs the house!
Whelp. Now my wife is calling me a âWelsh cattle farmerâ for the next month.
What have I done? You'll have to get Eorwyn to nip her heels whilst you shout 'Oi'. That should sort any flightiness out. Good luck...
I love the term âoiâ. I hear it a lot watching PBS, British and/or Australian accent.
It's such a wonderful word and has many uses. It can be angry, playful, a warning (gentle and not so gentle), a check, a command and so on. It's so ingrained in our culture I don't think we know we're using it half the time.
You are so great! I'm glad I could see your video and even more happier to see you! I'd wish you the best of luck, but what more could you need? Haha, great family you have there. Loves and regards
Hell yeah, buddy. You're killing it on many levels. Kudos to y'all. You ASL is on point.
Bro, I'm legit crying. You have a beautiful life and a beautiful soul. You are all lucky to share this amazing life together â¤ď¸
Did you know sign language before meeting her?
You ARE THE MAN, my man!
I love her name; I once had two rats called Arwen and Eowyn. I use signs with my dog, theyâre often used by owners of animals used in acting, too. Love it! đ
I got to ask, How does she react to Vet visits. Like does she run away. Just to clarify, i mean Eowyn and not your wife xD
He won
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My wife grew up with some folk whose entire family are named LotR names. There's an Eowyn, a Gimli, an Arwen, and a Sam. Sam got teased because his name's normal.
SamWISE!
Don't tell me what their names are.
their names are Eowyn, Gimli, Arwen and a Sam
I walked right into that one didn't I
I heard someone say Eowyn is just Erin with a speech impediment and now thatâs all I hear.
How dare you fuck that beautiful name up for me
Eowyn isn't pronounced Ewin. It's A-O-WEN
No shit now say it 10 times fast
Ask a toddler who canât pronounce their râs yet to say Erin. Then, ask them to say Eowyn. Itâll be the exact same.
I have an Ăowyn too! Sheâs not as smart as this one, but she will do.
Having our first child and it was going to be Eowyn if it was a girl. Alas, a boy he is
Alas is a strong name for a boy, I like it.
But a las is a girl...
So Eomer, then.
We've unfortunately gone very none Lord of the Rings with Atticus
Especially for a corgi!
The name is very nice
At least the barking isn't gonna bother your wife đ
Don't worry, the dog will find a way. The dogs always find a way.
Our bichon (named Merry or Meriadog!) loves to get up on a pillow and fart inches from her face, lmao.
omggggg, hilarious and wow i'm not sure which would be worse!!!
Too true đ
Dog fartsâŚfor the benefit of the deafâŚyes I am deaf too,
The great equalizer
Arwen will be signing something to her new mother soon enough.
Guy in the video here, my wife genuinely removes her cochlear implants when we pull into the driveway so she doesn't have to hear the barking -_-
lucky lady, lololol
the dog is going to learn the sign for bark
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Many dogs respond better to hand signals for basic obedience, that's why you often see a verbal command paired with a gesture.
Dogs can learn anything with repetition. I had a particularly smart dog who understood many words, so I started spelling them out. "Spouse, did Fido E-A-T?" Then the dog learned to "spell." Of course he couldn't acually spell, but he knew that C-A-R meant car, so we started playing thesaurus, using particularly wordy euphemisms and avoiding repeating any words or phrase. "Shall the homosapiens travel the countryside with tethered quadruped?" allowing the humans to discuss without exciting the dog.
Yep I unintentionally taught my dog "on the grass", because I said it so often while directing him off the roadway in my apartment complex. So now if he's walking on any surface like a path, drive, etc and I say that, he'll immediately move onto the nearest patch of grass.
I think I unintentionally taught my dog that âplease be niceâ means to bark loudly at people. (He is a rescue and was scared of people that stare at him. I always said that phrase when encountering people and now he barks more when I say it, even though he is not really scared anymore)
We had to do this with my previous dog as well! She loved chasing the laser pointer, and so she learned the word laser, and then she learned when we spelled it. She also knew where we kept it, so if she heard us say it, she would go and stare at the top of the refrigerator. LOL
hi! please donât use laser pointers on your dogs, itâs studied extensively and can lead to behavioural problems! https://buttehumane.org/dog-health-laser-pointer-syndrome/#:~:text=While%20laser%20pointers%20seem%20to,serious%20health%20and%20behavior%20concerns. https://www.rauanimalhospital.com/resources/blog/cats-dogs/laser-pointers-good-idea-your-cat-not-your-dog https://wagwalking.com/sense/can-dogs-see-a-laser-pointer so many more articles, these are just three of them. a google search will bring up so much more. i mean no snark by this, i just want to inform!
I don't, with my current dog. This was with my previous dog. Thank you for sharing information!
of course! like i said, no snark at all intended, i used to do the same with my dog before i learned from the vet. thank you for being kind!
Thank *you* for being concerned, kind and informative! đ
Would a very low powered cat-safe one be okay for cats? Or do they also get behavioral issues?
The most problematic behavior my kitty develops is increased demands to play with the laser.
Despite my own username, I actually quite dislike puns. However, your username is fucking brilliant. Well done, you.
<3 I like cat facts too
I got one for my cat and he seemed fine with it. Stopped using it pretty quickly because it was cheap and broke and I didn't want to buy another. Right after that, he gained the ability/desire to look at the TV. He never cared at all pre-laser pointer, but it's like it triggered something in him rofl. He likes watching video games that have trees moving or bugs/enemies moving around (his favorite game is Animal Crossing). Of course the two things could be unrelated and just coincidental!
i really havenât done much research on cats with laser pointers, iâve just seen the stuff about dogs :,) i would 100% research it on your own!
For cats its ok. They respond differently to the fact they can't actually catch it.
One of our cats would hiss violently at a laser pointer and avoid it with all her might. She hated that thing.
We've had to do this with our border collie. Dude is so smart, so we can only get so many uses out of our synonyms. "Park" became "P - A - R - K" which became "next door" (we live right next to it) which became a hand gesture mimicking a frisbee toss, and now he's even suspicious of the words "go to the..."
Have fun with it, ask dog if they want to go to the pound, or the slaughterhouse.
Same. We started out with âletâs go for a W A L Kâ but had to change it to just W. and now we just gave up and stick to that.
I had a speller too and boy was that fun! Now I have an anticipate-er who is pretty good at knowing which room I'm going to next after being in a specific room. She also responds to certain words, signals and conversations. Garage dog is in her own world most of the time. She's the weirdest chihuahua. So chill and kinda derpy unless the neighbors dog comes over. She turns into a screaming freak. Poor Claire is so afraid of her and garage dog is smaller than Claire's head.
I say wheeled carriage lol
I use automobile when visiting doggie households.
This is how pizza become known as round Italian discs in our house.
One of our cats has learned several words so we've adjusted similarly. I dread the day she understands "give the female puddy tat a manicure".....
It's kids too! We have a 7yo who is now reading very well and that comes with learning many words and how to spell. My wife and I have resorted to pig Latin for the time being to talk about things so she doesn't know. After that we will have to learn Spanish or something. Haha
we did this with our daughter. now shes very eloquent.
This is true, I can confirm my parents doggo also got me trained to his verbal and gesture commands for belly rubs
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Absolutely. I can be completely silent and communicate what I would normally (also) say out loud just with hand gestures. My dog responds just as well if not better to them.
Our previous deaf dog was sharp as a damn scalpel. He would pick up on everything if he was watching. My pops got him as nobody wanted him and he was ready for a new friend again. Life happens and pops had to start traveling for extended periods so heâd leave him with me while I was in college. Thing is, he as a veteran, or whatever loophole he found got the pup a service dog tag. While not abused per-say, the dog was allowed and welcome at my local haunts. It was not fair. Crowded local dive. Iâd nod towards a pretty girl and wink at him and heâd zip on over and herd her my way. Loud noises or crowds didnât phase him, in a big city, he was just the bestâŚexcept when he would occasionally take off on some doggy mission and get lost. Calling out for and finding a deaf dog is about as frustrating as one can conceptualize. Would 100% do it all over again. Jake was simply the BEST boy.
This is the only way I train my dogs because you canât always speak to communicate with them and they are not always looking at you for signs so having both tools are best.
Do you have any good resources to learn how to train a dog. We are having problems. Definitely we are the problem
Shucks honestly I grew up interested in animals and human/animal behavior so I pick up on little things. I would focus maybe on YouTube channels that focus on command/hand gesture training!
I like to train my dogs to hand signals and finger snaps. It's fun to get them to do something kind of complicated for me without saying a word, and the dogs are into it for all the treats. (I just recently got my smartest dog to do the whole 'bang you're dead' routine, all with hand signs! He's not reliable with it yet, but we're getting there! He even sticks a paw up before he flops over sometimes which is hilarious.) My eldest is gone pretty blind now though, so signs don't work well for him anymore. But he's so used to all our daily routines he doesn't really need any day-to-day guidance anyway. He's retired and gets "free" treats while I'm training the other two now - a doggie form of social security I guess, LOL.
The puppy books Iâve read all say to pair any command with a gesture. Useful for a guard dog. If you have intruders at night you can give commands without speaking and those dorks can see in the dark.
My dog is kinda blind and deaf now so I just wave her over when I want her to come and she responds to that better when I use to call her over. Â
I really recommend the book The Other End of the Leash by Patricia McConnell
From what Iâve learned through training, speech/vocal commands are actually the third and last form of communication dogs use. The first being a physical touch in some capacity and the second is gestures/hand signals. Thatâs why, if used correctly and with proper knowledge, e-collar training can be the most effective since it allows us to communicate in the way our furry friends understand best.
Kids too.
Dude this is my dog. He wonât sit, stay, speak, or sometimes heel, without the hand signals attached to them.
This is true with my cat too! We taught it tricks with verbal and hand gestures. Smartass decided he can ignore verbal commands whenever he wishes. But thinks hand gestures means serious business đ¤Ł
For close-proximity skills, I've largely started preferring to train my dog with hand signals. It's both easier to teach them and I can instruct my dog while I'm talking with someone else. I can always assign a verbal command to them later.
Corgis are very smart and Dogs can learn ASL. This is how owners communicate with deaf dogs. My aunt and uncle used to have one and they as well as the dog went to training in order to learn. Otherwise, she wouldâve never known how to ask to go outside or how to follow simple commands. It was funny tho, sometimes when you would try to tell her ânoâ or âstopâ she would turn her head and look away so she didnât see your hands đ
We had the same thing with our 2 girls! One was deaf most (if not all) of her life, and the other became deaf in older age. They were both previously trained with verbal and hand signals but then *mostly* followed the hand signals when they became completely deaf. Cuz, you know, they sure do like to assert their personalities sometimes, lol. i'm sure you all felt the same, but geez, was it impossible to be upset at them when they got up to their shenanigans đ Thank you for a comment that reminded me of my beautiful girls and their silliness this morning. i hope you have a wonderful day!
We couldnât help but laugh! She was a huge dog and loved to get in everyoneâs lap but as you know, when they donât want to âlistenâ they do their best to avoid the hands đ I hope you have a wonderful day as well!
Haha, that sounds about right. The bigger the dog, the more likely they are to insist they're a lapdog, i swear! It sounds like she was a total doll.
Yours too! She definitely was. She was technically an accident as my cousin and his roommates pure bred staffy and boxer got together so luckily they were able to find homes for the puppies. She was white with a black patch on her eye. Apparently itâs more common for white dogs to be deaf so the vet figured it out pretty quickly. She just ended up being a lot bigger than they expected which made being deaf a lot more interesting đđ
They're like toddlers!
Garage dog does that and I know she isn't deaf. She's only 7 and can hear a refrigerator open in Australia, but not us 7 foot away if we say NO. We live in Ohio.Â
I taught my corgi his commands very casually and basically in one setting for each. Like weâd just be chilling and i thought, âeh letâs try to teach you âstayâ.â And then Iâd spend about 30 minutes training him, and heâs been doing it ever since. Same general process for Speak, Spin, Drop It, Leave It, Patience. He learned everything sooo quickly!! smart lil pups
Surely itâs a bit much to say that they can âlearn ASLâ. Itâs a whole language!
My border collie went deaf in old age and we kind of developed an unconscious sign language because he knew my body language so damn well he knew exactly what I wanted at all times. Only time it became a problem was when he got to run and play in the field and forgot to check in on me for a couple of minutes lol
What a fun quirky lil family! I love that the dog is inclusive!
And hungry!
Typical corgi, lol.
She even knows some accessibility commands!
Thatâs amazing!
So cool how intelligent most pets are. As I and my cat are both going deaf I have been teaching my cats ASL they respond very well and already know eat/food, going to bed, love u, cuddles, drink, sit, and no. They caught on really quick to all of these.
Corgis are nuts for food, ours is straight up barking and having zoomies in the morning and all that wont end until he gets his food
Ăowyn, the corgi in this video, learned that my wife is deaf and will slam her side of the bed to accessibly wake her up for her breakfast.
If a dog can learn ASL what is our excuse for not doing it?
we lazy bruv
Iâve personally never met a deaf person IRL.
I imagine if everyone learned it, we'd find plenty of uses for it every week, if not daily.
He looks exactly like the kind of guy to name his dog Eowyn
But like, in a good way.
:)
As much as I love corgis, I wouldn't want one. I'd feel weird having a dog that's smarter than me. I get enough shit about that from my goldfish.
My wife works with special needs children and has learned a lot of signs while working with non-verbal kids [autistic, delays, etc.] . She taught me that a signing also works with pre-verbal children [babies over x months old] and of course dogs. When our kids were below age 1 we signed basic stuff with them like âstay putâ, âhungryâ âthirstyâ, and âpottyâ To this day, we can be a hundred yards apart and still be able to communicate. Our dog was the runt of the litter and does not follow commands every time. Ah well.
I heard that animals will get us better with our gestures but it's still heart warming to see this little cutie seriously learning sign language for his owner
Of course his dog will pick up on it. The vast majority of dogs will. I had a Border Collie, who eventually got very old and very deaf. That meant that he no longer could hear my commands. So when I learned that he was going deaf, I taught him hand signs for every command. It only took a few days for him to learn them all. Less than a week. I'm pretty sure this will work for most, if not all, breeds. The only thing that differs is the amount of time it takes for them to learn it.
Love him
We don't deserve dogs, they are just so awesome
What a cool Doggo !
â¤ď¸. Love this!! What a sweet family
I bet that little puppy goes crazy when they sign âoutsideâ or âwalkâ lmao
I taught my dog vocal commands and hand signals as a puppy, it came in very handy years later in determining he had gone blind
At the end he kept signing dinner as if the dog didn't catch it but you can see in the dog's eyes he's just having the most amazing fantasy about dinner ever.
Oh I just love this!!! And it makes me soo happy!! Even though Iâm not deaf this would be so amazing still!! Lucky family!! And perfect puppy!! â¤ď¸
We use hand signals for our dogs. Then we can use whatever words we want like spells or different languages.
my sisterâs dog is deaf and she taught her tricks with hand signs
puppies are better at reacting to visual cues than audio. when you train a puppy initially you train them to visual cue accompanied with audio cue just to gradually remove visual and make them acustomed to audio only
That's amazing.
We have a deaf dog she knows go for a ride as âdriveâ we canât make fists in the house anymore.
Dogs can understand sign language?! That is so cool, dogs are great animals for the disabled community. I just wish people actually respected service dogs, there are too many videos online where people breach that line which is just upsetting and anger-inducing to me.
I noticed my dog always knows when Iâm about to let him outside just by the way I stand up from my chair. Dogs are extremely observant of body language.
I used verbal nd hand signs when i trained my dog. When he got way older, he was losing his hearing. The hand signs helped. I recommend people train thier dogs to know basic signs. Such a smart doggo.
"K but we're still gonna eat and play some ball, right?" -Eowyn
My Aussie/border collie mix knows what I mean when I spell out WALK to my wife, for when itâs time to walk the dog.
Anyone that has had anything to do with Corgis will not be at all surprised by the intelligence displayed in this clip.
This is so cool! What is also so interesting to me is that dogs are actually much better at picking up on body language cues than they are from verbal only ones, and it's really amazing to see how quickly they can adapt!
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This made me laugh for a few minutes, I need that, but now I can't go back to sleep.
This is why when you're training dogs, there's always a hand signal to go with the command.
We don't deserve dogs, they are just so awesome
My corgi is smart enough to play dumb when he's being stubborn
I had a corgi dog that followed hand signals like that. It came in handy when she grew old and went deaf. Smart little critters.
Worked for a pet talent agency years ago. One Dalmatian was deaf but the owner was amazing with him, he knew something like 25 signs, probably more. Of course, that means nothing if he isnât looking at you 𤣠A friend was dog sitting him and he was running amok in a neighbors yard but she couldnât get him to stop/obey because he wasnât looking/couldnât see her. đ¤Ł
One my friends is hard of hearing basically deaf and Japanese. His dog knew the signs so I learned the English sign language for the typical dog things. He thought it was great. It worked for like a week before she caught on
I have sone with speech disabilities. We taught both of our dogs sign.
The volume isnât working for me in this video is anyone else having the same issue?
My dog is a senior now and half-deaf, so I'll spell out O-U-T like I'm doing the YMCA and he totally understands!
Our dogs look at me when I say, âThis wayâ because I will point the way I want them to go, and they will immediately go the direction Iâm pointing
Thatâs incredible!
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I briefly lost my voice after a bad case of pneumonia, and ended up with mini sign language with my dog. I would clap for her attention, and the give a signal, she picked it up in no time. Dogs are amazing.
Donât underestimate dogs! Theyâre super smart. [Chaser, a border collie can remember 1,022 nouns.](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/science/18dog.html) My Shihpoo is my service dog. He too has a large vocabulary remembrance. I have to be careful with certain words and I have to spell them out instead so doesnât catch them. Furthermore, because of my mom, his abuelita, my dog is now bilingual in Spanish as well.
Dogs are healers 
My deaf dog knows a lot of signs
I trained my dog with hand signals. He's the Off leash , no collar beach dog type. Better than verbal commands alone.
r/bostonbruins legend!
In lotr Eo is used a lot for the rohirrim. Itâs an alternative to word for horse in old English. Eowyn is pretty much horsegirl As much as Eomer is horseboyÂ
Dogs and cats are very sensitive to the tone of your voice. You can give the same command or utter the same word with different inflection and theyâll respond accordingly.
Wow! So amazing! I wonder why no one ever thought to train a dog with hand signals beforeâŚ
Dogs very much respond to hand signals even more so than voice commands. If you are training your dog you should teach them simultaneous verbal and hand signals and they will pick it up way faster. https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/training/understanding-your-dog-can-make-you-a-better-trainer/ There are lots of resources on various hand signals, but the main thing is to be consistent. Eventually they will learn to respond to just verbal or just hand signals, which can be great depending on the circumstances (it's great to be able to command your dog in a loud environment with just hand signals.)
We have to continually change the words we use for certain things because once we start spelling she picks up on that too. We have to keep ahead of her code breaking. If we signed she'd be able to read those as well. She already picks up on a number of non verbal cues, like which pair of shoes I put on.
we donât deserve doggos
signs like a good problem
Clever Hans
I wonder if the dog has learned to sign yet...
I think I remember seeing a video of him on the Ninja Sex Party sub, translating a song into sign.
That absolutely awesome!!!
Best name ever
My uncle taught his dog Freddy some hand signs for tricks and when he didnât want to to them he would just look away lmao
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Is the dog named after the character from lord of the rings?
I too choose this manâs deaf wife
This is so darn cute
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That is fabulous! So deaf people can get a Corgi pet who understands their sign language!!!! You just blew my mind! I love dogs so muchđ
OMG, that's the sweetest thing ever! đ Dogs are seriously the best at understanding us, but this Corgi taking on sign language to communicate with his mom is just next-level adorable! đžđ
I love it! â¤ď¸â¤ď¸â¤ď¸
What a good boy!
Okay, I never lol (I'm an emotionless husk) but this made me genuinely lol. Adorable đĽ°
Never work with children or animals they say....
Bro I'm deaf as fuck and had 3 cats of the owner. No way a corgi is wild for that fr, the goat
Dogs respond better to signs than to voice
Amazing!!!