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Do you know what irritates me a lot?

People who talk to their dogs softly when trying to discipline them and then when their dog doesn't respond blaiming it on the dogs intelligence, as if dogs and humans are suppose to be intelligent in the same way.

"No fluffy, don't you jump on that lady, what did I say about jumping on the nice people?" That's what a lady said in the sweetest tone said to her dog as it was trying to maul my leg.
"I'm sorry, she's not very smart" the lady then went on to say.

Do you they think their dog can understand them? Why do they think an animal is stupid when it won't respond to words alone? Here's a tip,idiot human[ because you have obviously never taken a dog obedience course, or read a book on the nature of dogs, and I'm sure you think your dog is a human too]- Dogs don't understand English, nor do they understand french Spanish Latin or Greek, they understand fluctuations in your tone, they can hear the command not through understanding of the language itself but rather through familiarity of the person's tones when they say "sit" for example.
This is the same idea as one person who doesn't speak a particular language, let's use English for example- this person who doesn't speak English can still have an understanding of expressed anger or despair or happiness from another person speaking solely English in part of the expressions themselves having unique tonal patterns.
Coming back to how your dog works. If you tell your dog nicely "no no, don't jump on people" in the same way you say "good doggie, thanks for not peeing on the rug" I guarantee your dog will keep jumping and expect a fucking cookie for it. There's no assertion of the alpha in this situation. Tell your dog to "sit", "stay", "don't fucking jump on people" with assertion, looking the dog in the eye until it looks away, it won't understand what exactly you're saying but you will have asserted dominance, which they do understand and this assertion will make them stop whatever they're doing., pretty quickly because in the pack with the alpha, you know, the dominant dog will basically fuck you up if you don't listen. Back in the day when I owned an aggressive pitbull and an over-hyper, disobedient husky it was critical to learn how dogs work and function and I'm telling you, not once did I ever ask my husky nicely not to jump on people. Why? Because if my dog were a human she would have laughed at me, told me to fuck off and jumped on that person because she's in charge and I'm just a cookie dispenser.

Over and out.