Common Dog Commands in Several Languages

[TheRedQueen]

Found this fun site just now...

http://www.dogstuff.info/common_dog_com ... s_drp.html

[KJS]

Its a lot of fun....but woah what a lot of mistakes

[katiek0417]

There's a lot of sites like that...and it's amazing to hear the difference between, for example, a true German saying Platz and someone like me saying it!

[pitbullmamaliz]

That's neat!

[fenella]

Some of Murphy's first commands were in German. We did a mix of both. After his bad experience with his first trainer, we went to all-English to try to get rid of the bad association. I usually found myself using the English ones anyway. He still will respond to platz occasionally.

[TheRedQueen]

I can barely get English out of my mouth...much less remember anything else. I'm sure my dogs are pretty well-versed in "Erinese" now.

[Hoyden]

I can barely get English out of my mouth...much less remember anything else. I'm sure my dogs are pretty well-versed in "Erinese" now.

! Funny you mention that. You should see some of the people we train with tweak when they hear me give verbal commands to Birdie.

Come has morphed into uh-mee-ahs
Good girl into gud goos
Here into ee yhahs
Bad/No is Dahmi (Japanese for bad)


In the course of working together, our commands have become their own language. While Birdie will listen to normal verbal commands, my jibber jabber commands take precedence over anyone else's verbal commands.

[BullyLady]

I can barely get English out of my mouth...much less remember anything else. I'm sure my dogs are pretty well-versed in "Erinese" now.

! Funny you mention that. You should see some of the people we train with tweak when they hear me give verbal commands to Birdie.

Come has morphed into uh-mee-ahs
Good girl into gud goos
Here into ee yhahs
Bad/No is Dahmi (Japanese for bad)


In the course of working together, our commands have become their own language. While Birdie will listen to normal verbal commands, my jibber jabber commands take precedence over anyone else's verbal commands.

Oh my, that's hilarious!!

I heard, though, that it's actually better that way. I have a friend who uses "flutterbutt" as her release word. I can see where that would be useful because I can't even count how many times I've had my dogs in a down or whatever and my husband says "Okay" for another purpose (to me, the other dog, on the phone, etc....) and the dog I'm working with gets up.

[TheRedQueen]

I heard, though, that it's actually better that way. I have a friend who uses "flutterbutt" as her release word. I can see where that would be useful because I can't even count how many times I've had my dogs in a down or whatever and my husband says "Okay" for another purpose (to me, the other dog, on the phone, etc....) and the dog I'm working with gets up.

That's why we use "Stolen" and "Paid for" with our Assistance Dogs...so they don't eat stuff out in public when someone says "Okay".

[Hoyden]

I heard, though, that it's actually better that way. I have a friend who uses "flutterbutt" as her release word. I can see where that would be useful because I can't even count how many times I've had my dogs in a down or whatever and my husband says "Okay" for another purpose (to me, the other dog, on the phone, etc....) and the dog I'm working with gets up.

That's why we use "Stolen" and "Paid for" with our Assistance Dogs...so they don't eat stuff out in public when someone says "Okay".

I found out that Birdie would break a down stay, swipe food or toys when she heard OKAY with in the first few months that I had her. She heard a woman in the office at the place we trained say "okay" on the phone so she broke the down stay, grabbed a McDonald's chicken strip and went into a crate to have a snack. That word was banished from our training vocabulary.

I use "Bruha" as in brouhaha as her release command. For some reason, she likes that word, it makes her happy and waggy, so I decided to use it.

I use a separate command to release Birdie to eat while she is "on the job". I tell her "Maaanga".

For "Let's go" I use andiamo. Italian for "let's go".

[Rolex+Deebo]

Thats a cool site! I'm from Czech Republic, so Rolex is all Czech.
You should see some of the looks I get in classes, and trials.
Last year, on the end of one of the OB trials, the judge came up to me and asked "what on earth were you saying to that dog?"

[katiek0417]

Thats a cool site! I'm from Czech Republic, so Rolex is all Czech.
You should see some of the looks I get in classes, and trials.
Last year, on the end of one of the OB trials, the judge came up to me and asked "what on earth were you saying to that dog?"

Nemo is partly in Czech b/c that's where he was imported from...so the guy that started his training started him in Czech...

I gotta tell you, though, I have 3 main dogs that I am/will be competing with (Cy, Nisha, and Nemo), and each has a different language (Cy - French, Nisha - Dutch, Nemo - combination of Dutch/Czech)...it's funny on the trial field when I give the wrong the command!!! My response is even funnier "Oh, crap, that's not your language." And, yes, I've said that on the trial field!

[Rolex+Deebo]

I have the same problem! Thats why Rolex is bilingual in the "basics" (sit, down, come).
But I still do the "stay, .... zustan"
Now I have to transfer Deebo to Czech, I taught him in English cuz I didn't plan on keeping him,and now I keep on telling him in Czech, and he looks at me like

[TheRedQueen]

Heck, I can't even get my dogs names out right most days...

I come off the flyball lanes all of the time to hear someone say..."You know you were calling the wrong dog, right?"

[katiek0417]

I have the same problem! Thats why Rolex is bilingual in the "basics" (sit, down, come).
But I still do the "stay, .... zustan"
Now I have to transfer Deebo to Czech, I taught him in English cuz I didn't plan on keeping him,and now I keep on telling him in Czech, and he looks at me like

Every once in a while when I have Cy and Nisha out together, I'll tell Nisha something in Dutch, and Cy will do it...even though he doesn't know it...and I know it's just body language or tone of voice...but I feel ya...I have to get myself mentally prepared (in other words, repeat the commands to myself) before I get a dog out to work! It's okay that my dogs think I'm nuts!