Pluggers by Rick McKee for August 26, 2020

No kidding—my brother had a dog who’d recognize the words “stick” and “walk” and get excited!

In the 1961 Disney film One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Pongo spelled out “walk” to Perdita in front of their puppies so the puppies can get to bed. Unfortunately, the puppies already knew what their parents were talking about and they wanted to go for a walk too.

It seems to me that at least in the case of some Plugger “furbaby parents”, the “furbaby” is more enthusiastic about taking “walkies” than the “furbaby parent”.;-D

Our dogs go nuts when you say “Walkie” ! They love it !

That must confuse the heck out of all the dog pluggers they know. “Guys, I’m a high school graduate. Cut it out.”

I walk a neighbor’s dog, and I often text the neighbor to let her know when I’m coming over. She has set up a different alert tone for my texts, and her dog has learned that the tone means that it’s time to go out. Every time I text her, the dog starts running around the house barking. The only problem is when I text her to let her know that I’ll be coming over later than usual, and she has to calm the dog down.

Our dog Wally learned to spell go and ride

Once we were talking about taking our dog for a walk, but we didn’t know where her collar was. She ran in the other room and came back with a collar in her mouth. It was for our other dog, though, but A for effort!

Don’t even say t r e a t.

Our dogs know five words for ‘walk’ and three for ‘squirrel’.

A dog trainer once told us that dogs key in on the first syllable and your tone of voice. Few words we normally say start with ‘vet’ so that is easy for a dog to figure out—might try ‘doc’ instead. If you say “time for shots” the same way you say “time for treats” or “time for a walk,” the dog will probably get just as excited. Now cats, on the other hand, are suspicious by nature, so you can only pull this trick once.

Dogs definitely are smart!!!

And unlike the Grandkids, the dog don’t learn to spell as they get older. By age 5, my Grandkids knew what i-c-e c-r-e-a-m was and I had to fix multiple bowls.

Our briard can spell t-r-e-a-t and w-a-l-k. We tried teaching our cat the Greek alphabet, but she never got further than “mu”.

Mine have learned to spell.

My mother-in-law had a dog who quickly learned w-a-l-k and got excited about that. We switched to “the W word”.

The one most spelled out is V-E-T.

another reason not to have a dog

N-O. Why don’t you do it for a change?

From the late 70’s to the late 80’s my family had a great little brown and white dog named Pixie. The best dog I ever had!!!! This cartoon sure took me back in time! Thank You!!!

Our dog has figured out if we spell it she should get excited.