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In a YT vid I just watched, the pathologist was asked if the technique might work with cats. She answered in the affirmative.
So why not try it with beardies? I figure somebody out there must be crazy enough to try it...

Anybody up for teaching their beardie to "speak"?Anybody up for teaching their beardie to "speak"?Some of you dog alphas out there may have recently heard/read about Stella, an 18 mo. old mixed-breed who is being taught to "speak" by her speech pathologist alpha.
Google: dog 29 words In a YT vid I just watched, the pathologist was asked if the technique might work with cats. She answered in the affirmative. So why not try it with beardies? I figure somebody out there must be crazy enough to try it... ![]()
Re: Anybody up for teaching their beardie to "speak"?What do you mean? Our two beardies talk to my wife and I all the time. If only one of us is there when it happens, we relate what they say to the other person via text & the "eyes with no mouth" emoticon. It's a bit premature, but we captioned this conversation with Otto for the less beardie-attuned.
[Click image to enlarge] ![]() As you said in your other post, viva la weird! ![]()
Re: Anybody up for teaching their beardie to "speak"?Have you read/heard about Stella? It' a little more than anthropomorphization or doing Bullwinkle/Scooby-Do voices; it's more like Kanzi--the bonobo who communicates via a lexigram board.
But it sounds like you may possess the requisite stuff... you're crazy enough! ![]() ![]()
Re: Anybody up for teaching their beardie to "speak"?
Hahaha, guilty as charged! No, I haven't heard about Stella though... just a sec... What's that Otto? Lassie's down the well again? Sorry, I gotta go! ![]()
Re: Anybody up for teaching their beardie to "speak"?They don't need to actually " speak vocally ", they simply use their telepathy skills to get their human slaves to do their bidding.... heck all skink , gecko , monitor and dragon keepers know this.
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Re: Anybody up for teaching their beardie to "speak"?Dog & cat owners do too. It's been a while since we've had a cat (allergies) but dogs spend an inordinate amount of time studying their alphas/owners body language. That's one reason they seem telepathic.
Zardoz is catching on too; he gets excited when I take his bug bowl out of the enclosure, having learned it usually comes back filled with num-nums.
Re: Anybody up for teaching their beardie to "speak"?
Figment knows what the cricket shaker sounds like and comes running when he hears me unscrewing the top! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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Re: Anybody up for teaching their beardie to "speak"?Guinea pigs/cavies go nuts with the sound of crinkling cellophane (like the sound of a vegetable wrapper).
All the food-related stuff is basic Pavlov... I'm curious what the future may bring with other kinds of stimuli... ![]()
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