“Zits!” (sit) shouted Mr. Rodriguez. “When you give a dog a command, you want to over-pronounce the first and last letter in each word,” said Mr. Rodriguez. Dogs take well to tones, not vocabulary.” Dogs won’t memorize words, he explained, but they will remember the sounds of them. “Sometimes they take to Yiddish words better than English.”The next 30 minutes were spent learning, and then following, additional commands: Arop (down); shtai (stay); gut (good); neyn (no); kum (come); maykhl (treat). “Group classes can be hard,” Mr. Rodriguez said.

Source: New York Times September 20, 2017 18:45 UTC