(11-30-2012, 02:01 PM)Victor Leigh Wrote: I am not too sure that cats and dogs don't understand human language. I remember there was a puppy I gave to a friend. After a week, my friend came to see me with an odd question. He said the puppy didn't respond to his words at all. It was then I realized that I had always spoken to my dogs in English whereas my friend only spoke Thai.
This is no surprise. The puppy isn't familiar to these new intonations, words and sounds. They may pair certain words with human expressions such as mad, angry, good, love. If they're introduced to a new language, then they end up starting from scratch again. This is the reason why they aren't able to converse with us or comprehend everything (only some) we say. This is also the reason why dogs don't have their own instruction manual to learn tricks.
