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Originally posted by the_marq
I'm not a dog trainer, maybe you are and that's fine.
From what I understand, dogs don't speak english or french or whatever, it's all about the intonnation in the voice. From what I had been reading in the Canadian press most traininers that they have spoken to have said the dog could learn the 5 or 6 basic commands in 2-3 weeks of training.
Mr Tessier was given plenty of time to teach his dog he simply chose not to.
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well you're misinformed. Dogs do understand words. Some can understand 200+ words, and they don't just understand it based on the intonation either. Mr. Tessier was asked to confuse his dog by giving it two words for each command. That's absurd.
By the way, you just shot yourself in the foot with your argument. After all, if dogs only understood commands based on intonation, then Mr. Tessier didn't have to retrain his dog at all - he could just speak the english word with the same intonation as the french word and the dog wouldn't know any different.