Viral Twitter Thread: Funny Moments With Dogs Who Only Understand One Language

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Dec 20, 2022 3:00 PM EST

There are so many funny moments that happen on a day to day basis with our doggos. Dogs are just… so funny sometimes. Everything that they do is somehow undeniably perfect. And funny. Dogs make funny expressions that we just cannot help but giggle at. Dogs can be the biggest divas, overreacting and exaggerating yet still winning our hearts with their personalities. Dogs are incredibly clumsy sometimes, and after the initial burst of 'oh my god, please tell me he's okay', we totally laugh at their ridiculousness. 

There are funny moments with our puppers every single day. And one of them, at least with our puppies, comes while watching them interact with our parents. See, our dogs only understand English, which our parents do not speak, and that makes for some funny highly confused interactions with them. Because yes, dogs are monolingual, and yes, that's funny to think about, but that's the whole dang point. 

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    Font - Sophie Vershbow @svershbow My parents and I live in the same city and hire the same cleaning person and this morning she told me that my dog understands Spanish but my parents' dog does not. 4:45 PM - Dec 15, 2022 3,981 Retweets 257 Quote Tweets 153.9K Likes
    via @svershbow

    It is 100% true that if you want your dog to understand multiple languages, you have to teach it multiple languages. It's not just the tone of your voice or the gesture that you make. Dogs are really smart, and they absolutely understand only the language that we teach them.

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    Rectangle - Sophie Vershbow @svershbow The only logical explanation Reply 9' Charlotte is fluent in French 4:50 PM - Dec 15, 2022 HA HA 145 Retweets 1 Quote Tweet 19.5K Likes B a ? ...
    via @svershbow
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    Font - Blue @BentonvilleLady ... Replying to @svershbow My daughter in law and her dog are both deaf. The dog knows about 50 signs but if you tell him something he doesn't want to know, he turns his head away so he can't see you sign 4:38 AM - Dec 16, 2022 777 Retweets 74 Quote Tweets 20.3K Likes
    via @BentonvilleLady

    Okay, now, this dog is just being a very smart drama queen. Hey, he's practically doing what we do when we mute someone on social media. If we can't hear it, that means that it isn't happening, isn't that right, doggo? You so smart. 

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    Font - Heather C @ThinkWithin Replying to @BentonvilleLady and @svershbow I had a deaf dog, she would close her eyes when she was in trouble. 5:57 AM - Dec 16, 2022 334 Retweets 42 Quote Tweets 14.7K Likes
    via @ThinkWithin
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    Font - Laura Carlson @ljcoolj18 Replying to @svershbow Our dog was on a ranch owned by a Mexican family before we got him. I was trying to get him to go and said "vaya!" and he went nuts. We asked the rancher what that meant to him - it was his command to go get the horses or chickens. And he couldn't find any in our house, LOL 10:52 PM - Dec 15, 2022 176 Retweets 7 Quote Tweets 13K Likes
    via @ljcoolj18
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    Font - Jennifer Monahan @monahanberkeley Replying to @svershbow My cat Dill was bilingual. He ignored me in two languages. 5:32 PM - Dec 15, 2022 224 Retweets 20 Quote Tweets 10.1K Likes
    via @monahanberkeley
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    Font - Diane Edbril @dianeedbril Replying to @svershbow My dog has learned how to spell the word "walk," so now I'm saying caminar when I know he's listening but I can't take him out 8:17 PM - Dec 15, 2022 : 66 Retweets 5 Quote Tweets 4,599 Likes
    via @dianeedbril
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    Font - T.L. Pavlich @tlpavlich Replying to @dianeedbril and @svershbow My dog learned w-a-l-k, then learned o-u-t. Also knows d-i-n-n-e-r. She's going to end up learning the whole alphabet from me trying to keep things from her. 10:00 PM - Dec 15, 2022 85 Retweets 6 Quote Tweets 6,436 Likes
    via @tlpavlich
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    Dog - Yellow Feenix @YellowFeenix Replying to @svershbow My parents dog only understands basic English commands in a very heavy Vietnamese accent or Vietnamese. I had to teach my very English partner how to say "sit" in a Vietnamese accent for the dog to understand
    via @YellowFeenix
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    Dog - pascutie @epascute Replying to @svershbow My rescue dog was from a city near the Mexico border. When it came to teaching him commands he looked at me like I had 3 heads so I tried the commands in Spanish and he listened.
    via @epascute
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    Font - Hannahcat @HannahHugsTrees Replying to @svershbow So yeah, this is actually a thing. One time when I worked at an animal shelter, we got a dog that only knew Spanish. He had no idea how to respond when he used English with him. I had to get my cousin to teach me dog commands in Spanish to be able to do anything with him. 10:32 PM - Dec 15, 2022
    via @HannahHugsTrees
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    Font - Kate @Gimboidz Replying to @svershbow I'm half Estonian & we used to have a lovely old Estonian lady visit sometimes. She adored our dog & would excitedly say "vaikene koer! vaikene koer!" (meaning little dog) when she came around. Whenever we said "vaikene koer!" to him he'd get crazy happy. He loved her 12:49 AM - Dec 16, 2022 28 Retweets 3,060 Likes
    via @Gimboidz
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    Font - Rachel Mans McKenny @rmmckenny Replying to @svershbow app pitch: dogolingo 4:45 PM - Dec 15, 2022 32 Retweets 1 Quote Tweet 2,653 Likes
    via @rmmckenny

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