Dogs don’t come speaking English, and they don’t come reading your mind. If your dog doesn’t listen to your commands, it well might be because he is confused. Of course, dogs can learn the meaning of many words, and like us, they have great hearing abilities and are primed to get information about the world around them from sound. Happy, well-trained dogs understand a wealth of information from the sounds that their humans make. Dogs even learn the meaning of words that we don’t want them to—running under the table when you say “bath” or dashing over to the cupboard and barking when you ask
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