Thurber’s Tail: Can Dogs Talk?
Thurber and I communicate very well with each other every day.
He is way smarter than I ever expected him to be and he understands the many words, tones and gestures that I use when I ask him to do something or retrieve something.
He tells me when he wants to eat, play, help him get a ball that slid under a chair and many other things.
Thurber uses his eyes, various whimpers, groans and tones to communicate what he wants me to know or do.
When the matter is urgent — such as the need to go Number 1 or 2 — he knows a loud bark will get my immediate attention.
Dogs are way smarter than many people are aware. The average dog can learn about 165 words, but some dogs can learn more than 200 and even beyond 1,000!
If Thurber could talk, I know he’d tell the silliest, corniest jokes, such as this one:
“What do you call a Labrador who does Magic?”
“A Labrakadabrador!”
Or this one:
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