My goldendoodle puppy doesn’t ever want to come back inside. I told my beagle “go get your sister” as I tried rounding up the puppy. Now when I say “go get your sister” the beagle runs to the puppy and baits her into chasing him into the house.
My cat Siegfrieda thinks that “bitte” (please) means “free petting”. That’s because I usually tell her bitte when she’s taking too long to obey the command. For example…
- Zizi! Komm nach Hause! (Zizi, come home!)
- [Siegfrieda ignores me to chase the shadow of a butterfly]
- Frieda, komm nach Hause. Bitte. (Frieda, come home. Please.
- Prrrwwwwn? [runs in my direction]
Ich liebe deine Katze!
What a wonderful kitty.
My cat blesses people when they sneeze
I think we’re going to need a bit of an explanation here
Anytime someone sneezes, he runs into the room, makes eye contact, and meows kinda loud once. If you don’t acknowledge him, he may continue ‘murr’-ing if he likes you, until you do say thank you or pet him. It’s really fricken cute. I think it’s because my wife sneezes a lot and we’re very consistent with ‘bless you’ and 'thank you’s ourselves. Neither of us are religious or superstitious, so it’s kinda silly, but it seems polite
Cat’s the new pope; haven’t you been watching the news?
Maybe a sympathetic “mrow?”
I didn’t teach her, but one of my dogs turns off the Roomba. She figured out that thwacking the light with her paw stopped it. So anytime it gets near her, instead of moving, she turns it off.
“Car” When we are walking in our neighborhood (there are no sidewalks) I’ll say “car” and he’ll move into the grass area when a vehicle approaches.
there are no sidewalks
What a world.
I taught my pet rock to “stay” in 1988.
It hasn’t moved since.
Thank you Mr. Wright.
Comedian Steven Wright, for anyone who’s unfamiliar with him, you should check him out
I like you.
“After you”.
My dog would walk right on my heels and nearly trip me. Taught her “after you” kind of accidentally and now she goes ahead a distance and then waits for me if I’m not fast enough.
Border Collie — go get mom. She’d go and find the now ex-wife.
And “Attack!” She’d just stand there and bark like mad.
The dog was sweet; and your biggest problem was she roll on her back and pee on the both of you.
Kinda somehow trained my dogs to expertly remove socks from feet… Started as a puppy with an interest in toe biting, decided to try to mould it into something positive. Lots of "OWW"s later, she will delicately nibble the tip of your sock to seperate a bit of fabric from the toe, then grab on, and tug straight backwards (you gotta point your toe to help her out) and voila! Sock removed.
Thought it was dumb but 7 years later, my pregnant wife thinks it’s the fucking bees knees
The beep one of my monitors makes at power off (at the end of my workday) catalyzes my three cats into immediate action. They could be passed out or hidden, and ignore me when I walk by (I’ve tested this), but the moment they hear that “beep-chime” they materialize.
They know it means I’m available for cuddles and snacks. Confuses the hell out of them on the occasional weekend when I take a Zoom call for one of my volunteer gigs. I’ll also use it to summon them when one vanishes for too long and I need to make sure they didn’t get out.
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There were two.
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Every time he farted it was awful so we’d shoo him out of the room. Eventually, he’d immediately walk out of the room right AFTER he farted.
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We’d end the day watching TV in the living room. Eventually he learned that the click of the TV meant it was time to go to bed, so any time the TV got turned off, he’d get up and go into his bed in our bedroom.
Back in college my dog learned the sound of the Xbox power-off chime and she’d hop off my lap and go jump in the bed.
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I can yell Cheese Wrapper at the dog park, and mine will come running.
Not really a command but I accidentally taught my dog to play fight me whenever I get home, because I did it when he was a puppy. So now it’s like Kato and Clouseau every time. Even when I’m super tired.
When my GF started visiting she commented on how cute my cat was for quietly meowing for food. She said she had a cat that would rake his claws across the wall to get her attention, and demonstrated this just once in front of my cat. That same night the little guy started doing that whenever he wanted anything after just seeing her do it once.
We accidentally made our cat yell when we point at her. Not even sure how it happened tbh; some combo of squirt-bottle-get-off-the-counter and very half-assed start to clicker training. At least we have a goofy party trick when we have people over I guess?
