Humorous or not, there was a video of a dog trainer that trained his (you guess it: German Shepherd) in German commands, partly so that when he worked with client's dogs, he could use English, and his German-speaking dog who would be in close proximity (useful for reactive training) wouldn't compete with the client's dog.
Reginald Foster, a great Latin expert whom I once got to study with, emphasized that Latin isn't inherently difficult as a spoken language, as evidenced by the fact that it used to be lots of people's native language and used for all kinds of ordinary daily purposes.<p>One of his slogans for this was "in Roma antiqua, etiam canes Latine locuti sunt" ('in ancient Rome, even the dogs spoke Latin').
The evil of global mutable state strikes again.<p>This is why I only train my dogs in a pure functional language.
I think if I said <i>sitz</i> to my English-trained dog, she would sit.
I think this is a great idea in general - security through obfuscation, kinda.
We do it with our herding dogs so you can give the different dogs different commands.
I grew up speaking German and still use "zu!" with my (otherwise English-trained) dogs for "get out of the way!".
Used in Schutzhund, German dog sport/training:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzhund" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzhund</a>
I have one of these lol (a dog with competitive parents). Get a load of our breeder's website, its a trip back in time. <a href="https://www.glaurungkennel.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.glaurungkennel.com/</a><p>Our little buddy is the silver collar here, <a href="https://www.glaurungkennel.com/LitterK.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.glaurungkennel.com/LitterK.html</a>
Platz. That’s the one German command I give to my shepherd.<p>I trained her over 11 years ago using Michael Ellis videos and picked it up there. If she was younger I’d incorporate some more of these.
"Sitz" and "platz" sound too similar, so to make it easier, some german people I know use a mixture of german and english.<p>"Sitz!" for sit<p>"Down!" for down.
Haha nice one. As a kid I had these friends in the neighborhood (Netherlands) whose dad trained Malinois shepherds and sold them worldwide to security services and police units.<p>In my city are four day marches in the summer where also international military participate. Before dawn, all these soldiers walk from the forest - where they sleep - to the starting point. It was customary for us as kids to wave to the soldiers and wish them good luck and ask for some souvenirs/stickers.<p>One day my friends had their dog with them and we learned the command 'luid' (loud in English, laut im Deutsch) so the dog would bark. Early in the morning, exhausted soldiers that did not even had their morning coffee, very quiet outside, and then the dog would bark them to shock with our little whispers of 'luid'. Good times.
The list goes to 48 (!), in case you’re fooled by the self-promo and “PS” after number 20.
Do they have other languages? My dog is an immigrant and it would be nice to use his native language.
> 2. Drop it / Let go — Aus. In German, aus is a preposition meaning “out of.”<p>It also means "off" and – in sports – "offside", which I think is much closer to what "aus" means in this context.
"Aus" in a sports context means out.
"Aus" means the dog should let go what’s in his mouth.<p>It means something like "Spuck es aus", "Spit it out"
Not really, offside is Abseits.<p>In this case Aus means out like in spit it out or out with it, "raus damit".
The most important one is missing:<p>Fass!<p>You better know what it means when a dog owner points at you and says <i>"Fass!"</i>.<p>There is a hilarious episode by German comedian Gerhard Polt about this word where he plays the owner of a <i>Kampfhund</i> (the genuine grandson of the great-uncle of the dog of Adolf Hitler) who goofs around alternating between <i>"Fass!"</i> and <i>"Nicht Fass!"</i> not realizing that the dog is not capable of distinguishing between the two.<p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=I5sFagE-zqw" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/watch?v=I5sFagE-zqw</a><p>(In German, obviously - the Bavarian kind)
These would be fun for voice control in a video game.<p>Which would be called Castle Woofenstein.
I've never seen a GSD actually obey the drop/aus command without you having something to trade for
Crappy owners. The GSD I have is like a cyborg, yet very friendly. WFH help the training. Most owners do not train their dogs and the alpha in GSDs come out easily.
This tool is incredibly effective. ive zapped myself with it to test. feels like a very very strong static shock. Our dog Solo has been zapped only a handful of times. When he wears the collar now we don't even really turn it on or use it - just knowing it exists is enough for him to drop his frisbee/ball/etc. <a href="https://www.ecollar.com/product/ez-900-easy-educator-1-2-mile-remote-dog-trainer/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ecollar.com/product/ez-900-easy-educator-1-2-mil...</a>
TIL: Phooey is actually a german word, Pfui.
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I have an ultra-trained GSD, and I find German commands cringe and pretentious.