Accents

When we went on the Staffs walk, we got talking to a couple and their children who owned a 5 month old weim x pointer. Now the children asked me if the dogs were allowed a treat and they were trying to get Louie to sit. Only they had a brummy accent and it looked like he didn't understand what they were saying.

So do dogs differentiate between accents or have I just got an ignorant puppy?

Dogs tend to generalise - so your Sit command will be not only your voice but your posture and movements. If you don`t believe me, try to keep perfectly still when you tell your dog to do something.
I bet you also have the same intonation and pitch. It`s just something we get into the habit of.
So the dog simply didn`t understand.

Oh, thanks for clearing that up for me - I do tend to move my hand towards the dog for sit and lean forward when I ask him to down...hmmm.

Rupert doesn't even know his name if it's said with an Irish accent

tilly can sit down in english, french, spanish

so do you think m,y woofs will only respond to a scottish accent ! , like tilly I speak to mine in french and little bits of other languages I have picked up on my travels , seems to work if its consistent despite the accent

All my clients start to sound like me after two sessions!

no-one understands Brummies, we Black Country folk live next door and we are at a loss with them.

When we went to a trade show, I had a rummage around the leather/suede stalls. The young girl there was lovely, charming and friendly, so much so that I bought an item, can't really remember what it was now even, but then she asked me if I wanted a Cow Tanger, well I couldn't make it out and she repeated it again and again, I was trying to think about cow=leather=Item of clothing.......in the end she picked up a coat hanger!!!!!!!!!! duh...............I should have know I suppose but being a southerner wasn't quite used to the accents up in that area of the world...... soon got used to them though........

We confused a girl working at our butchers over Christmas. I asked whether they had any dog bones and she thought we asked for duck bones