Mac is Bilingual!

[jenn D]

I'm not sure how many of you remember but we live in New Mexico and we travelled all the way down to almost El Paso to get Mac. He was rescued from a small area just north of El Paso, Texas and the rescue was located in a very poor town close to El Paso and Mexico. Mac isn't entirely happy with learning the "down" command and my husband on a whim said maybe in his former life they spoke Spanish. Now my husband is learning Spanish from the Rosetta stone cd's that he listens to on his commute to work. So I thought really, my husband wanted to show off what he's learned on his morning and evening drive. From across the room he told Mac to Lay down in Spanish and darn if that dog didn't do it! He then told him to "come" and "sit" in Spanish and he did that too.
We were all cracking up. I'm not sure if Mac was responding to my husband's tone and body language or the spanish but it was hilarious.
So to all my fellow DKers today Mac and I say:
Buenos Dias!

[F, Calla & Luca]

Love it.

[Marni and Hanna]

AWESOME !!!  I think sometimes if our dogs could talk, they would ask us what takes us so long to figure things out !!!!  : )

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I had a GSD foster who was bilingual; he understood German and English, and obeyed commands in each. Hand signals, too.

I'm sure Mac was not just responding to your DH's tone or body language, unless he was also using hand signals, because he did the specific commands he was given. I do think he's bilingual! 

[Rica + Margot]

Too cute! My parents rescued a retired sled dog and she became trilingual! Her first languages were Russian and English. She came to my parents when she was ~7 yo and picked up Tagalog on her own! We never learned Russian though! Good for your husband!

[Robin and Libby Louise]

I got my Siberian Husky when I lived in a French speaking area in Canada - one of the guys I worked with was French Canadian and Patrick (the husky) definitely understood both French and English!  Mac is very advanced!  :)

[Cindy and Olive (Ollie)]

Que buen perro! :-)

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Mac is bilingual which is very cool.  Ned is bilingual to 'fake' German (my poor pronunciation because I don't speak German) and English!  We have very smart dogs!

[Bonnie and Kona]

What a great husband to learn Spanish for his doodle! This is such a cute story!!! Thanks for posting,

[Judy, Meg & Polly Wolly Doodle]

Got to love an intelligent dog.  I once dated a guy that taught his dog German commands.  The funniest thing I ever ran into was on a trip following the Baja 500 race, we stopped at a small clay pottery place and I saw a kitten and called kitty, kitty, kitty and the darn thing ignored me.  The little boy there gave me an odd look and called gato, gato, gato and the kitten ran right to him.  Must say I was a bit embarrassed.