I saw this app....

That translates the human voice into name so dogs can understand. It may be fake but of course, I wondered about beardies.

Would it have to be a visual app? It would stare back? Would it hiss?

If you create an app, you owe me. This post is binding.

 

[Sue E.]

That translates the human voice into name so dogs can understand. It may be fake but of course, I wondered about beardies.

Would it have to be a visual app? It would stare back? Would it hiss?

If you create an app, you owe me. This post is binding.

My uncle used to live in the country (he passed away a while ago). He had 3 horses, a rooster, 2 cats, and 2 dogs. When he came home, all of them except the horses (including the rooster!) would run down the driveway to greet him. One of the dogs would not bark but make noises as best he could (like when a husky tries to talk, but the dog was a lab/collie mix). My uncle would say to the dog, "yeah? And then what happened?" and the dog would continue on. They'd do this back and forth "conversation" for a few minutes, and then the animals (cats, rooster, and dogs) would follow him back to the house. I have never seen since a man who could communicate with animals (horses too) as well as he did, and I dont know how he did it, but all those animals understood him and he understood them. He never raised his voice at any of them, and they all came immediately when he called them, even the cats! He would have loved beardies if he'd known about them. My mom said he had a gift for animals and I swear he did.

 

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My uncle used to live in the country (he passed away a while ago). He had 3 horses, a rooster, 2 cats, and 2 dogs. When he came home, all of them except the horses (including the rooster!) would run down the driveway to greet him. One of the dogs would not bark but make noises as best he could (like when a husky tries to talk, but the dog was a lab/collie mix). My uncle would say to the dog, "yeah? And then what happened?" and the dog would continue on. They'd do this back and forth "conversation" for a few minutes, and then the animals (cats, rooster, and dogs) would follow him back to the house. I have never seen since a man who could communicate with animals (horses too) as well as he did, and I dont know how he did it, but all those animals understood him and he understood them. He never raised his voice at any of them, and they all came immediately when he called them, even the cats! He would have loved beardies if he'd known about them. My mom said he had a gift for animals and I swear he did.

I have a friend like that.
I gave her a feral kitten once. It was not hardly half grown. She named him Simon before she even got him out of the pet carrier. I tried to get him out first, he tried to murder me lol.
Jessica talked to him for a little while, then reached in and started resting her hand just touching him. It took her about an hour or so but she got him to come out. I went back a few days later and he was following her all over the house, setting in her lap purring, being a normal cat. I tried to pet him and he tried to murder me again lol. Jess was the only person that could ever handle Simon. She is like that with most any animal. (Except butterflies she is terrified of them. She thinks they are trying to steal her soul with their eyes lmao )

 

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I have to admit, not bragging, that for many animals that works for me, too.
Like the cats "nobody can touch" - oh, wanna take a look, he or she is just cuddling with me.
The Bernese mountain dog of my in-laws? Even after at that time I only rarely was able to visit (living abroad), I was his second favorite after his "mom". I cannot remember having done something that special (no, I had no meaty bone with me, and no, I also didn't play hide and seek or something), but that dog adored me.
Pets of others? Also often. It is rarely that one turns away, but I'm fine with that (always let them sniff first).
I was often sitting on park benches playing with stray cats, and others asking me how nice my cat would be to go with me to the park - nope, not my cat, know that cat for literally 5 minutes.

Wild animals as a kid: Many small to medium-sized animals I could just pick up (hand under the belly, or they ran on my hand), without forcefully grabbing them. I remember toads, lizards and more.

My mother-in-law is similar, but she is terrified of reptiles. Including those beautiful sand lizards also to be found on her property, and she respects them and helps them (once one ran into her house and she managed to get it out with a bucket) but she is terrified. She says she can't even tell what it is, but she remembers when she was a kid, another kid threw a snake (?) after her. (By the region she is from: The "snake" was likely a legless lizard, or maybe really a snake (would be a rare find, but there are some) of which all are non-venomous.)

 

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I have to admit, not bragging, that for many animals that works for me, too.
Like the cats "nobody can touch" - oh, wanna take a look, he or she is just cuddling with me.
The Bernese mountain dog of my in-laws? Even after at that time I only rarely was able to visit (living abroad), I was his second favorite after his "mom". I cannot remember having done something that special (no, I had no meaty bone with me, and no, I also didn't play hide and seek or something), but that dog adored me.
Pets of others? Also often. It is rarely that one turns away, but I'm fine with that (always let them sniff first).
I was often sitting on park benches playing with stray cats, and others asking me how nice my cat would be to go with me to the park - nope, not my cat, know that cat for literally 5 minutes.

Wild animals as a kid: Many small to medium-sized animals I could just pick up (hand under the belly, or they ran on my hand), without forcefully grabbing them. I remember toads, lizards and more.

My mother-in-law is similar, but she is terrified of reptiles. Including those beautiful sand lizards also to be found on her property, and she respects them and helps them (once one ran into her house and she managed to get it out with a bucket) but she is terrified. She says she can't even tell what it is, but she remembers when she was a kid, another kid threw a snake (?) after her. (By the region she is from: The "snake" was likely a legless lizard, or maybe really a snake (would be a rare find, but there are some) of which all are non-venomous.)

I'm pretty good with most animals as well. Dogs not so much, I'm just not a dog person. Other animals though I'm all in. There pretty much isn't anything I'm afraid of (well except for like bears or big cats, but that isn't an unreasonable fear) even those I would play with if they were tamed lol. Something about a big ole cheetah purring and acting like a house cat I find very appealing

 

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I would also not describe me as a "dog person", and for many reasons I would not get a dog. I would really rather get e.g. a toad than a dog. But as they are animals, I'm okay with them and they seem to like me.

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Why I would not get a dog:
- I don't want to have a pet that I cannot lift and carry in case of an emergency, and I like especially the larger breeds and I can't carry much. I'm done at around 5 kg, but that small dog breeds that are usually very extrovert and not very calm I don't like much.
- I don't like that a dog often forces you in interaction with strangers. Also I would be embarrassed if "my" dog would turn out to be a "barker", as much as I try. I'm a calm and introvert person.
- Being a dog owner won't fit my work schedule. As a responsible pet owner I then say clearly "no".
- The extra time required for e.g. cleaning, I really won't have this. Also the extra time required for puppy school and such.
But I don't have anything against dogs.

There pretty much isn't anything I'm afraid of (well except for like bears or big cats, but that isn't an unreasonable fear)

The same. It's some reasonable respect, but not a fear as in "I freak out and I won't dare going into the woods". No that's not it.
For a while, we lived in a house near/ in the forest, and to go to the town (each morning to catch the train to my workplace, and in the evening back) I had to walk an unpaved forest road for some 45 minutes. That was in Germany, so no bears or big cats, but wild boar. I knew they were there, I knew what do do (not approach, not separate their group, for sure do nothing with their offspring), and I was fine with them.

even those I would play with if they were tamed lol.

Yes, I would also.

 

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I would also not describe me as a "dog person", and for many reasons I would not get a dog. I would really rather get e.g. a toad than a dog. But as they are animals, I'm okay with them and they seem to like me.

Spoiler

Why I would not get a dog:
- I don't want to have a pet that I cannot lift and carry in case of an emergency, and I like especially the larger breeds and I can't carry much. I'm done at around 5 kg, but that small dog breeds that are usually very extrovert and not very calm I don't like much.
- I don't like that a dog often forces you in interaction with strangers. Also I would be embarrassed if "my" dog would turn out to be a "barker", as much as I try. I'm a calm and introvert person.
- Being a dog owner won't fit my work schedule. As a responsible pet owner I then say clearly "no".
- The extra time required for e.g. cleaning, I really won't have this. Also the extra time required for puppy school and such.
But I don't have anything against dogs.

The same. It's some reasonable respect, but not a fear as in "I freak out and I won't dare going into the woods". No that's not it.
For a while, we lived in a house near/ in the forest, and to go to the town (each morning to catch the train to my workplace, and in the evening back) I had to walk an unpaved forest road for some 45 minutes. That was in Germany, so no bears or big cats, but wild boar. I knew they were there, I knew what do do (not approach, not separate their group, for sure do nothing with their offspring), and I was fine with them.

Yes, I would also.

Tbh wild bores would probably scare me more than bears or big cats. They are more unpredictable and can be extremely aggressive if they feel threatened.

 

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I agree. They were also at my former workplace, btw. (An observatory located in a forest in Germany.)
Basically, at that time I was going from "boar place nr. 1" (the forest through which I walked to the train station) to "boar place nr. 2" (workplace).

 

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I agree. They were also at my former workplace, btw. (An observatory located in a forest in Germany.)
Basically, at that time I was going from "boar place nr. 1" (the forest through which I walked to the train station) to "boar place nr. 2" (workplace).

Yeah that would be a little nerve wracking lol

 

[ChileanTaco]

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There were often "boar" round-mails, like "boar was seen behind the North lab, please stay alert", "recent digging activity, they are back" and so on

What I loved as a kid: Tame boars at a small zoo belonging to a national park. (Enclosures normally were for breeding-and-release projects or for non-releasable animals that were fostered after not fully healing from an injury. That one not.) One could walk around their big enclosure - a huge fenced-off area in a forest -, as usual, or enter. They came, sniffed you, you could feed them and often I was petting one - the same species as found in Germany, but absolutely tamed and there already for some generations. This was the only enclosure one could enter and I guess it was to make up for the other animals which were rare to see especially when they were in the breeding-and-release projects in also huge enclosed areas of forest to keep them as natural as possible for their offspring being wild enough to release them.

 

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There were often "boar" round-mails, like "boar was seen behind the North lab, please stay alert", "recent digging activity, they are back" and so on

What I loved as a kid: Tame boars at a small zoo belonging to a national park. (Enclosures normally were for breeding-and-release projects or for non-releasable animals that were fostered after not fully healing from an injury. That one not.) One could walk around their big enclosure - a huge fenced-off area in a forest -, as usual, or enter. They came, sniffed you, you could feed them and often I was petting one - the same species as found in Germany, but absolutely tamed and there already for some generations. This was the only enclosure one could enter and I guess it was to make up for the other animals which were rare to see especially when they were in the breeding-and-release projects in also huge enclosed areas of forest to keep them as natural as possible for their offspring being wild enough to release them.

I think petting zoos and stuff similar to what you describe are fantastic. It is a safe and fun way for people to learn about animals they never would otherwise