# What should our dog learn next?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-our-dog-learn-next/956952>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 31, 2021, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-our-dog-learn-next/956952 "2021-12-31T00:15:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-our-dog-learn-next/956952/41 "2022-01-04T19:19:40Z")

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_Köter_ is German for mongrel or cur. Not the nicest of terms, but if the dog is so clever he leaves you little alternative. _Chucho_ in Spanish would be similar. _Chien, cane, sobaka, gos_… your dog could make _you_ learn languages!

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**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-our-dog-learn-next/956952/42 "2022-01-04T22:28:55Z")

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> [@Gordon\_Urquhart](#):
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> This is true – we inadvertently trained our dog to run to the window and look outside whenever we say the word “dog,”

Sort of on subject in a weird way but my Wife and I have an Amazon Alexa. Works Ok.

But when we talk about Alexa between our selves, we call it Henry.  
“Should we get music over TV streaming or … umm… Henry.”

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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-our-dog-learn-next/956952/43 "2022-01-04T22:34:13Z")

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Kind of makes me wonder when Alexa is going to learn _that_.  
ETA: Funny you call Alexa “it”, thought (s)he was a “they” 🤔

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**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-our-dog-learn-next/956952/44 "2022-01-04T23:56:13Z")

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> [@Pardel-Lux](#):
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> _Chien, cane, sobaka, gos_ … your dog could make _you_ learn languages!

I’m not sure I ever heard “cane” in isolation. It always seemed to be “brutto cane”.

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