They do know their names. My cat and know their names. I can ask my cat Carlos to go find Chase and vice versa and they go and look for their little friends. The cat and dog both. They know.
Gee, for someone who uses such big words with such big meanings its too bad you can not spell or spell check. If all those big words had been used in their proper context your comment would be easier to understand. Who are you trying to impress? Your English teacher? For those of us with an obviously lower level of education, can you please clarify. Do you agree with Sarika or disagree?
I don't pet my dog or give him a treat when I use his name, and he responds to it with attention rather than by coming to me. His ears perk up as with any word he recognizes. I use his name in many contexts and with both praising and scolding intonation, so forming the overly specific association described here would be pretty unlikely. We'll probably have better studies of this in the future. Every once in a while we see these sorts of "animals are dumb tho" hypotheses falsified. For example, smarter dogs exhibit "symbolic representation" when they successfully retrieve a toy from another room by name. Mine knows what "green ball" means.
They do know their names. My cat and know their names. I can ask my cat Carlos to go find Chase and vice versa and they go and look for their little friends. The cat and dog both. They know.
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Sadly, I disagree. I think animals do understand that their name is theirs and the name of others whether human, other animal or even items.
They do not understand symbolic representation, but the do have indirect associations of complex concepts and situational words.
Gee, for someone who uses such big words with such big meanings its too bad you can not spell or spell check. If all those big words had been used in their proper context your comment would be easier to understand. Who are you trying to impress? Your English teacher?
For those of us with an obviously lower level of education, can you please clarify.
Do you agree with Sarika or disagree?
If your dog comes to its name it believes the word is the command to come.
Then why is there a command called "Come"?
I don't pet my dog or give him a treat when I use his name, and he responds to it with attention rather than by coming to me. His ears perk up as with any word he recognizes.
I use his name in many contexts and with both praising and scolding intonation, so forming the overly specific association described here would be pretty unlikely.
We'll probably have better studies of this in the future. Every once in a while we see these sorts of "animals are dumb tho" hypotheses falsified.
For example, smarter dogs exhibit "symbolic representation" when they successfully retrieve a toy from another room by name. Mine knows what "green ball" means.
What rubbish
I can tell you all my herd know their names .. the sound. The intention whatever
Poorly done study.