Monday, August 10, 2009

How Many Words or Phrases Does Grits Know?

I just read an article on canada.com where University of British Columbia professor, Dr. Stanley Coren claimed that dogs can understand from 165-250 words. This is similar to the mental abilities of a 2.5 year old child. So I thought I'd see if I can think of all the words or phrases Grits knows and count them:
1. Grits
2. Mom
3. Dad
4. Breakfast
5. Dinner
6. Snack
7. Carrot
8. Wait
9. Sit
10. Stay
11. Let's Go
12. Hurry Up
13. Cheemo
14. Bone
15. Have a Drink
16. Turn Around
17. No
18. Leave it
20. Go See
21. No Bark
22. Magoo
23. Come On
24. Gritsy
25. Lay Down
26. Go to Sleep
27. Mr Squeaky
28. Ball
29. Toy
30. Down
31. Off
32. Go to Bed
33. Bud
34. Outside
35. Come
36. Good Boy
37. Hungry
38. Where's Mom?
39. Let's go see who it is
40. Your so smart
41. Who's the best puppy?
42. Marian
43. Patty
44. Len
45. Good Job
46. Get out of the kitchen!
47. Use the stairs
Okay, I give up. It was a struggle to come up with 47 phrases. I guess my dog is no genius... not even close.

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