She just showered us with affection' : Pupper pawrents confused after finding a random sentence that makes their doggo go crazy for kisses, and the comments can't handle the cuteness

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Feb 9, 2025 5:00 PM EST

Just when you think you've got your doting doggo all figured out is exactly when they will do the thing that surprises you most. And that is exactly what happened to these pupper pawrents who thought they were having an innocent enough conversation about how to best clean their home, when suddenly out of nowhere, their cuddly canine covered them in kisses and cuddles like they had never been before. Which is a far cry from the concept of an activation phrase or trigger word that would typically induce some canine craziness. Making the situation all the more confusing. Because not only do you have a very banal phrase that can no longer be uttered in innocence around the house, you now have to contend with the concept that your doggo has other activation phrases that might cause it to do other things, like your taxes.

Whatever may happen down the road, this seems like a through and through success story that only serves to deepen and enrich the relationship these wholesome hoomans have with their doting dog child.

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    'What does my rescue dog think I'm saying?"
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    This is probably an unusually wholesome mystery for this sub so hopefully that's okay and within the rules.
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    Five years ago I adopted a snuggly outgoing English Bulldog/Beagle mix from an SPCA in the midwest. Supposedly she was found
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    locked in a kennel inside a house that had been foreclosed on and abandoned. I don't necessarily think she was
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    per se, but by the time someone found her she was almost starved to d h.
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    She's intelligent and precocious and since her time as my pup she has learned all sorts of words and phrases and her behavior shows she undoubtedly knows the difference between them.
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    "Do you want to go for a walk?" (My partner and I actually have to spell the word "walk" in any sentence or she runs to the hook where her leash hangs), "Hungry?" (she runs to her bowl), "Where's your
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    ball?”(runs over and digs through her toy basket), "Outside" (runs to the door), "bang" (falls down) not to mention sit, lay down, roll over, etc.
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    Two years ago some random housecleaning led to me turning to my partner and casually saying "Can you go fix the rug?" My dog, who had been lazily snoozing on the couch went absolutely APE She's always very
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    loving but she started attacking us with kisses (even nibbling our noses and whining) her little button tail wagging 100 mph. She didn't run to the
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    door or food bowl or to her leash, she just showered us with affection on a level that no other phrase initiates. To this day the words "Fix the rug" even with ZERO upper inflection garners the exact same intense reaction.
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    Is "Fix the rug" similar phonetically to a command that would make sense with her reaction? Maybe she was trained in another language? Is there some
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    midwestern colloquial command that isn't present in the south (where I now live and am from) that sounds like this? It's so funny and so bizarre and it's a huge mystery in my household.
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    Edit: Might be helpful that the top 3 non-English languages spoken (in order) in the area where she was rescued/adopted are Spanish, Cantonese, and Arabic.
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  • This is quite the wholesome mystery indeed. Just imagine the initial shock and confusion you would be faced with, when one moment your focus and attention are completely consumed by the task of cleaning. And then the next you are covered in kisses and cuddles from nowhere. This couple will never be able to clean the house again if things keep going this way.

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    LunaticMou….. My dog goes nuts when we say "tug" as in the game of tug. Put a tugging toy in front of your dog then ask a about the rug and let us know what happens!
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    III-Kaleidos... my guess is "give me some love" lol but who knows! she's a cutie for sure though
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    CousinSerena Maybe it sounds like her former name? Or a nickname that someone that was kind to her called her? She is super cute and sounds like a smart, sweet pup!
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  • Well unless this delightful doggo’s name was one ‘Rug’ there is little chance that this phrase could connect to such a thing. That being said the dog child’s name could have rhymed with ‘Rug’, so maybe ‘Tug’, ‘Bug’, ‘Hug’ could have been its name. How wholesome a dog named ‘Hug’.

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    PinkPearMa... TL:DR Try saying "kiss and hug" or "kisses and hugs"
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    I used to work at an animal shelter, and we were taught that dogs respond to first letters in words similar to how we do.
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    For example, if your name is Jennifer, someone might quietly try to get your attention by going "J- "... only making the J sound. Your ears will perk up and you'll look, just hearing the first sound of your name.
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    Also, if someone replaced the J with B and started calling you Bennifer, you'll still recognize it as your name no matter what.
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    We used this in practice to change a dog's name if it was necessary.
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    For example, a dog named er could easily be changed to Tucker. Or, if you wanted to change er to Sammy, you'd start calling him er for a while, and then change it to Sammy.
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    I hope this helps you figure out "fix the rug.'
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    My guess, if we imagine that it's the first letter that's an unknown variable (like how you'd recognize Bennifer as your name), that leaves us with _ix the _ug
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    I think the others might be right that he might be confusing rug for hug. Alex, I'd like to solve the puzzle. Try telling your pouch "Kisses and Hugs"
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