Add this to the list of articles about research confirming something about dogs that anyone who has ever lived with one already knows.
I’ve had more than one non-dog person question the conversational style in which I will speak to my dog. I know he doesn’t speak English, thank you for pointing that out. Setting aside the fact that dogs very clearly will learn and associate meaning to certain words, it’s also still the best way to communicate a message through tone of voice and body language.
For some reason the people who think this is strange, in my experience, would not think it at all strange to similarly speak in full sentences to a non-English speaking person, who frankly I’d say is less well equipped to interpret meaning through context clues.
