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ALRIGHT. LISTEN UP.

This speech-language pathologist taught her dog 29 words, and he can even form full sentences.

They do understand our words. This is not true of all domesticated animals (horses, for example, can only manage to distinguish a relatively small number of spoken commands…but boy do they know what you’re really saying).

They don’t understand “just your tone of voice” as a lot of people think.

As of 2016 the record vocabulary for a dog demonstrating understanding of words is over 1,000.

So if you give them a way to talk back, they’re going to use it.

The development of language skills is probably a side effect of domestication and of being kept in close contact with humans. A dog that was a better hunting partner would be kept and bred and over time they developed a better understanding of language.

In other words, dogs are pretty dang smart because we need them to understand us.

Check out the owner Christina’s Instagram: one of the first things I saw was a video where the dog started barking and, when prompted by the owner, said “outside, look look look look look look look, come outside.” Which is basically exactly how one would expect a dog to speak. 

The owner described bringing an unknown package into the house, and the dog ran away to push the buttons for “help no no help help” which is also about what I expect goes on in a scared pup’s mind.

In another video, the dog tried to push a button, and the button wasn’t working. The dog paused and then pushed the buttons for “No. Help.” 

In yet another (which the owner seemed impressed by), Stella said “come eat come play.” The owner asked the dog which she wanted to do, to eat or to play? And the dog clarified “come eat.” After eating, then the dog tried to instigate play. So the dog may have been able to understand a short spoken question, and how “questions and answers” work, and also understands sequences, even if she can’t express them (”I want to eat, THEN I want to play”)

Stella can even recount short-term memories, like when her family returned from the beach for dinner and she said “water good, no eat, play”

By the way, the owner uses the buttons as well, which probably really helps reinforce their meaning. She uses them to say things like “Stella all done eat” or “Stella and Christina go outside, bye!”

Your best friend doesn’t have your back.

You’re actually depressed and no one knows.

You’re still stuck on that guy.

You want to switch schools.

You haven’t been happy in years.

You’re heart broken.

You’re broken and now one cares.

You want somebody to actually be there for you.

You have fake friends.

You’re not comfortable around your friends because it feels like their judging you.

You cry yourself to sleep.

You don’t want attention but you want one person to tell you it’s ok.

Thanks for the tag @chemicalgee!!!

Birthday: July 17

Zodiac: cancer

Height: 5′6 (I look shorter because of scoliosis though) 

Last song I listened to: monster mash 

Hobbies: Drawing, painting, listening to music, annoying my cat, scrolling through tumblr/YouTube for hours since I have no life 

Last movie I watched: Spirited away 

Favorite color: mint blue, purple, and black 

Dream job: cartoon artist or comic artist 

Meaning behind url: It’s my Killjoy name 

Birthday: April 1st (im an april fools babey >:)

Zodiac: aries

Height: 5′2 

Last song I listened to: This is Halloween (spoopy season!!!!)

Hobbies: drawing, crocheting, reading too much, spending way to much time on the internet, listening to music, obsessing over musicals, chillin with friends, watching anime and documentaries, making shitty edits (look at my icon) and trying to be a plant mom but failing miserably

Last movie I watched: either The Hunt for Red October or Detective Pikachu i can’t remember which one I saw last 

Favorite color: Red, black, teal, dark purple

Dream job: owning a craft/yarn store and secretly living in the woods in a small cabin with a shitton of plants and goats and being a wlw witch or somethin idk

Meaning behind url: chairsareforsitting was the random name i made up for the instagram account i got in 8th grade (i haven’t been on it in like a year) without my parents permission and i was gonna make it my tumblr name but chairsareforsitting was already taken so i slapped a “definetly” on it, unaware that i had spelled it wrong until someone i know irl was like “wait what” so yay me for being bad at spelling 

Birthday: January 7

Zodiac: Cap bby

Height: 5’5”

Last song i listened to: Are You Gonna Be My Girl by Jet (honestly a bop)

Hobbies: scrolling on this hellsite, singing, trying (and failing) to learn guitar, watching movies, listening to music, singing, acting, playing tennis, makin robots at school (does that count), watching anime, playing w my cats, hanging with friends, snowboarding (rad), reading, etc

Last movie i watched: It Chapter 2

Favorite color: dark teal/emerald green

Dream Job: prolly like a film director or some kinda cool scientist where i get to make some kind of super genetic mutations and create superpowers or cure cancer or something. i fw genetics they’re cool af

Meaning behind url: honestly i have no idea. the idea just teleported into my brain one good evening and it’s been my username since. i guess my life’s kinda a disappointment and also i watched cloudy with a chance of meatballs like 1000 times as a kid. i had to shorten the with to just a w but i hope people still understand the concept!!!