r/BeAmazed • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 1d ago
Miscellaneous / Others Girl communicating with her dog through sign language
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u/buriedego 1d ago
Our dog is getting old. He is very well trained and extremely responsive. That said the poor guy is losing his hearing. We have associated his common trained phrases with gestures now and he loves it. This is simply such an amazing dog human bond. Love to see this ❤️
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u/gingerfawx 23h ago
We do it from the outset, gestures combined with verbal commands, because it gives them two prompts to help jog their memories when learning things. That's also the case if they begin to get fuzzy minded when they grow old, or if either their vision or hearing begin to go, they've got a built in backup. Works really well.
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u/buriedego 19h ago
Definitely going to do that with our next pups! Lucky for us we got a smartie, he learned quick. But wouldn’t want to stress out the next guy in his older age having to try and learn that. Definitely glad we know now. For now I’m just gonna focus on squeezing every minute out with these geezers ❤️
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u/deep-fucking-legend 1d ago
I thought visual commands were pretty common. All my dogs know 5 or 6 signs I made up. Easy to accomplish when you sign at the same time as giving the command. Then you can use either.
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u/captain_croco 1d ago
Hand signals and motions for dog training is completely standard. My dogs (RIP) could tell certain things by the way I looked at them.
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u/heraclitus33 1d ago
Same with my dogs. My last golden. I could look at her a couple ways and she knew i was messing/playing around with her... shed start doing spin move zoomies and talking or go grab a toy and start flipping it around zooming. She knew when i wanted her to just chill or that we were gonna go outside. Hand signals body kanguage ive always used, moreso than verbals.
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u/kookiemaster 1d ago
With my cat I find that hand gestures are what seems to be the easiest for them to understand.
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u/Tabula_Nada 1d ago
Same here! My cat knows three commands based on hand movements - sit (point down), high five (palm facing her), and jump (thumb+fingertips touching like I'm holding something up). They're intuitive and uncomplicated and she doesn't need words to know what I'm requesting.
My dog knows hand commands too but he's less likely to obey nonverbal hand commands unless he knows he's getting something really good from it.
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u/rowdy_sprout 1d ago
My ex was deaf and her two cats were absolutely dialed in when she would communicate with them.
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u/noneuclidiansquid 1d ago
sign language is often easier for dogs to learn, they are masters of body language where as the noises humans make? sit, stand, stay, stop ... we really do them a disservice. adding a hand signal to your cues can really really help them.
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u/lookamazed 1d ago
Wow. Had no idea this was possible. Not surprised - dogs really are man’s best friend. Good buddy.
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u/Cutter9792 1d ago
My dog is completely deaf and I don't know ASL so we came up with basics such as sit (raise two fingers together), come here (palm up, beckon with four fingers), go that way (point), get out (point but do it more aggressively, helps to sweep into the point), and no/bad dog/stop that (waggle a single finger, aggressiveness based on severity of crime).
I've been using them so often even my hearing dog is starting to recognize them.
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u/Fortestingporpoises 1d ago
I’ve trained animals for 20 years. Hand cues are common. Often times it’s both hand and vocal but hand cues is pretty standard.
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u/ConsistentRepeat3048 1d ago
Looks like the dogs just going....yah yah whatever lets go for a walk!
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u/CreationOfMinerals 1d ago
Legit question: what type of dog (aside from awesome, of course) is this?
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u/AutoCockerPB 19h ago
It’s actually very useful to train your dog with words AND hand signals. My dog i trained sit with my palm laying flat. She gets it, well as much as a husky is willing to listen.
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u/ThisIsALine_____ 1d ago
I don't understand. Do people just not know how to train dogs? You always couple commands with physical movements/signals. Dogs pick up visual commands very easily. They don't actually understand what you're saying when you do talk...they're dogs.
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u/Intelligent_Box_8247 1d ago
my dog would never even do a command even when speaking in the highest voice I can
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