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German Dog Commands
- justinator 6mo agoHumorous or not, there was a video of a dog trainer that trained his (you guess it: German Shepherd) in German commands, partly so that when he worked with client's dogs, he could use English, and his German-speaking dog who would be in close proximity (useful for reactive training) wouldn't compete with the client's dog.
- schoen 6mo agoReginald Foster, a great Latin expert whom I once got to study with, emphasized that Latin isn't inherently difficult as a spoken language, as evidenced by the fact that it used to be lots of people's native language and used for all kinds of ordinary daily purposes. One of his slogans for this was "in Roma antiqua, etiam canes Latine locuti sunt" ('in ancient Rome, even the dogs spoke Latin').
- jjtheblunt 6mo ago"latine" with an e on the end is ablative, first declension?
- amelung 6mo agoThis ‑e is an adverb ending. The belonging adjective is «latinus» ‹Latin›.
- jjtheblunt 6mo agothat makes more sense to me, because i asked thinking it was a typo on ablative with implicit lingua
- schoen 6mo agoYes, one way of referring to Latin is "lingua Latina" or just "Latina", but there's an old custom of using adverbs to refer to use of languages. So Latine is "in Latin" or "Latinly" (and there are similar adverbs available for other languages). Interestingly, the language adverbs are also used in a construction with scire (to know) or intellegere: "Latine scit" (he or she knows Latin), "Graece intellegit" (he or she understands Greek). In English we would definitely think of this as needing a direct object, but Latin allows it as an adverb, to understand "in a Greek way" (perhaps it would make sense to think of it as something like "in a Greek manner" or "from a Greek perspective").
- jjtheblunt 6mo agoyep totally understand, had four years of latin in the 80s, some Greek, and many more. it's interesting to see how an idea gets phrased slightly differently across even related languages, i have to admit.
- nerdsniper 6mo agoNice video of a contemporary latin-speaking community: https://youtu.be/sfWMgWnSQUw https://youtu.be/sfWMgWnSQUw
- schoen 6mo agoI had heard about that lecture, but I hadn't seen the video before. The Latin is quite easy for me to follow, but I'm still impressed by Luke Ranieri's fluency (really on par with some of the most skilled Latin speakers I've met, well beyond my level even when I was regularly participating in spoken Latin events). Hopefully I'll get to meet him and speak Latin with him some day.
- sudb 6mo agoI think this is a great idea in general - security through obfuscation, kinda.
- badc0ffee 6mo agoI think if I said sitz to my English-trained dog, she would sit.
- Esophagus4 6mo agoMaybe your dog has been taking German classes while you’re at work…
- arjvik 6mo agoTurns out if we say any word with the same inflection as sit, our dog sits!
- justinator 6mo agoI think it's partly because "sit" is one of the first commands they learn so if they're not sure what to do, they'll default to sit as that often gets the treat. That's also why you teach "sit" first before, "bite the face of the person in front of me" (talking German Shepherds again)
- BoredPositron 6mo agoWe do it with our herding dogs so you can give the different dogs different commands.
- tomcam 6mo agoNow I’m dying to know what kind of herding you do that requires this separation of powers
- BoredPositron 6mo agoJust sheeps and it's a small herd we have for fun next to our vineyards. One dog could probably handle thm alone but it's more fun with two ;)
- jancsika 6mo agoThe evil of global mutable state strikes again. This is why I only train my dogs in a pure functional language.
- yencabulator 6mo agoIt's merely the software architectural mistake of only constructing a broadcast channel. Security by obscurity is fundamentally weak, this use wastes bandwidth, and can be destroyed by statistical analysis where the other dogs learn German.
- mckirk 6mo agoJust don't be confused if they then follow the commands side-effect free.
- Hackbraten 6mo ago"Reduce!" ("Reduzier!") "Map!" ("Bild ab!")
- bulbar 6mo agoI don't think you can entirely remove the side effect of getting treats.
- justinator 6mo agoTreats are without a doubt the only true universal language.
- chrisandchris 6mo agoSo we're doing the opposite. As we're in the German spesking part of europe, our dog listens to English to not interfere with daily talk. It's IMHO one of the best choices to take a foreign language for your dog. You can also use different languages for different setups (e.g. to differentiate fun, working). Dogs anyway don't speak the language, they just listen to the voice, but as an owner it's easier to set context by moving to a different language.
- vardump 6mo ago> German-speaking dog Impressive!
- mrjoe3332 6mo agoI've never seen a GSD actually obey the drop/aus command without you having something to trade for
- whalesalad 6mo agoThis tool is incredibly effective. ive zapped myself with it to test. feels like a very very strong static shock. Our dog Solo has been zapped only a handful of times. When he wears the collar now we don't even really turn it on or use it - just knowing it exists is enough for him to drop his frisbee/ball/etc. https://www.ecollar.com/product/ez-900-easy-educator-1-2-mile-remote-dog-trainer/ https://www.ecollar.com/product/ez-900-easy-educator-1-2-mil...
- system2 6mo agoCrappy owners. The GSD I have is like a cyborg, yet very friendly. WFH help the training. Most owners do not train their dogs and the alpha in GSDs come out easily.
- ProllyInfamous 6mo agoDecades ago, the GSD we had, kept both myself and then-babymomma "together" – cyborg is a good attempt to capture their routineness, but they truly are 2nd-command pack-leaders, and will step in as alpha when necessary. Absolute loverdogs. "Charlie" would plotz [sit] among the goodest of boys #RIP Never have I experienced love like I did from that GSD. I still have a photograph of him on my mantle (despite have had many great animal friends, the only doggo pictured). He kept two humans alive at their lowests... one bowl of chow at a time.
- daft_pink 6mo agoDo they have other languages? My dog is an immigrant and it would be nice to use his native language.
- NoiseBert69 6mo agoTeach him Rust Oh wait, wrong Thread!
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- kazinator 6mo agoThese would be fun for voice control in a video game. Which would be called Castle Woofenstein.
- rambambram 6mo agoHaha nice one. As a kid I had these friends in the neighborhood (Netherlands) whose dad trained Malinois shepherds and sold them worldwide to security services and police units. In my city are four day marches in the summer where also international military participate. Before dawn, all these soldiers walk from the forest - where they sleep - to the starting point. It was customary for us as kids to wave to the soldiers and wish them good luck and ask for some souvenirs/stickers. One day my friends had their dog with them and we learned the command 'luid' (loud in English, laut im Deutsch) so the dog would bark. Early in the morning, exhausted soldiers that did not even had their morning coffee, very quiet outside, and then the dog would bark them to shock with our little whispers of 'luid'. Good times.
- dole 6mo agoUsed in Schutzhund, German dog sport/training: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzhund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzhund
- whalesalad 6mo agoI have one of these lol (a dog with competitive parents). Get a load of our breeder's website, its a trip back in time. https://www.glaurungkennel.com/ https://www.glaurungkennel.com/ Our little buddy is the silver collar here, https://www.glaurungkennel.com/LitterK.html https://www.glaurungkennel.com/LitterK.html
- dole 6mo agoDefinitely a trip back in time, I did a website almost exactly the same for Bernese mountain dogs except without the flame background.
- tomcam 6mo agoBut with the batwings I hope
- dole 6mo agoNah, those were a classy touch. IIRC it was some Thomas Kinkade-lookin' bullshit.
- whalesalad 6mo agoah man I can totally picture that. very on brand for a big ass BMD living in like maine or vermont
- tomcam 6mo agoI totally want a batwinged attack dog now
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- SirFatty 6mo agoTIL: Phooey is actually a german word, Pfui.
- system2 6mo agoI have an ultra-trained GSD, and I find German commands cringe and pretentious.
- codethief 6mo ago> 2. Drop it / Let go — Aus. In German, aus is a preposition meaning “out of.” It also means "off" and – in sports – "offside", which I think is much closer to what "aus" means in this context.
- croes 6mo ago"Aus" means the dog should let go what’s in his mouth. It means something like "Spuck es aus", "Spit it out"
- kuerbel 6mo agoNot really, offside is Abseits. In this case Aus means out like in spit it out or out with it, "raus damit".
- Quanternion 6mo agoI've only heard "Abseits" in football but "Aus" definitely exists in tennis.
- grasbergerm 6mo ago"Aus" in a sports context means out.
- stephbook 6mo ago"Es ist aus" can also be translated as "It is over" (a game) The meaning in dog schools is "Spit it out", but given aus's versatility within human language, it's often used as a general "stop" command. As in "aus", stop playing.
- weinzierl 6mo agoThe most important one is missing: Fass! You better know what it means when a dog owner points at you and says "Fass!". There is a hilarious episode by German comedian Gerhard Polt about this word where he plays the owner of a Kampfhund (the genuine grandson of the great-uncle of the dog of Adolf Hitler) who goofs around alternating between "Fass!" and "Nicht Fass!" not realizing that the dog is not capable of distinguishing between the two. https://youtube.com/watch?v=I5sFagE-zqw https://youtube.com/watch?v=I5sFagE-zqw (In German, obviously - the Bavarian kind)
- rolph 6mo agoits down lower on the side bar list: 32 Attack - Fass https://www.fluentu.com/blog/german/german-dog-commands/#toc_32 https://www.fluentu.com/blog/german/german-dog-commands/#toc...
- lukan 6mo ago"Sitz" and "platz" sound too similar, so to make it easier, some german people I know use a mixture of german and english. "Sitz!" for sit "Down!" for down.
- wvbdmp 6mo agoThe list goes to 48 (!), in case you’re fooled by the self-promo and “PS” after number 20.
- nyjah 6mo agoPlatz. That’s the one German command I give to my shepherd. I trained her over 11 years ago using Michael Ellis videos and picked it up there. If she was younger I’d incorporate some more of these.
- frankus 6mo agoI grew up speaking German and still use "zu!" with my (otherwise English-trained) dogs for "get out of the way!".
- torginus 6mo agoAs someone who speaks German, it feels puzzling to me why I would teach my dog German commands (even though I have a GSD), these are just the regular words/phrases for things but in a different language.
- rolph 6mo agoits a weak authentication. if you use a dog for work/husbandry, law military, it does two things. 1] regionally unfamiliar language, dog will obey your commands, but not commands of regional language. 2] parrallel handling, different dogs trained in different languages dont step on each others task,in response to the same cue command. e.g. left dog, sprech im ze deutsch - right dog, govorite po russki
- cjbenedikt 6mo agoI hope your Russian is better than your German...;-p
- rolph 6mo agoi spoke both conversationally with my grandfather before he passed, he was russian/german i spoke english as native language, but later began learning a few others. i get them mixed up when cold, but if speaking for a while i can get in a zone. my spelling is atrocious i think i see where you complain: Sprechen Sie Deutsch %:P
- cjbenedikt 6mo agoTrès peu ;-p
- EdwardDiego 6mo agoIt's better with dogs to use commands that sound harder for hard commands - stop, down, wait, etc. Which German's love of crisply pronounced consonants tends to lend itself to.
- advisedwang 6mo agoI'm told (but have no direct knowledge) that many police dogs in the US are trained to german commands. This is because previously (and in some cases still) police departments used dogs trained in Germany and they have continued so that there is continuity of commands (ie you don't have to know which dogs speaks which language).
- whalesalad 6mo agoYes, this is true. Many personal protection dogs as well.
- edwhitesell 6mo agoSometimes it's Dutch instead, but that's true. Many agencies, especially those new to having K-9 or small departments that may not be able to spend time dedicated to training from puppies, get dogs from Europe that are partially or fully trained. The lineage of the working dog breeds is much better in Europe because many breeds have bloodlines that haven't been bred for generations to be pets (like here in the US). It's also why agencies pay so much for the dogs. Last I heard (I used to be more involved volunteering with my local PD) a fully trained dog was around $25k, USD, a partially trained was something like $8k - $10. It sounds like a lot until you realize a fully trained dog is 18—24 months old when acquired and has been training every day during that time.
- 867-5309 6mo ago*Dog Commands in German
- coldtea 6mo agoAll German sounds like dog commands
- bytepanels 6mo agoThe 2004 film 'Catch that Kid' informed me of dogs being trained in German
- RyanOD 6mo agoWhen I was a kid, my neighbors had a doberman pinscher they named, "schatzie" ("sweetheart"). I remember them using the "sitz" and "platz" commands.