I can speak a little dog but it doesn’t work very well over the phone. Once I know a pup well enough (i.e. at least a hand-sniff and some petting/belly-rubs so we each have some indication that the other is friendly), it’s fun to imitate the “play bow” and see how they respond. I figure if they can go to the trouble of learning to understand their human-assigned names and the typical assortment of dog-words, the least I can do is try to invite them to play in their own body language.
Also quite a quest to learn to speak a dog to make that call.
I can speak a little dog but it doesn’t work very well over the phone. Once I know a pup well enough (i.e. at least a hand-sniff and some petting/belly-rubs so we each have some indication that the other is friendly), it’s fun to imitate the “play bow” and see how they respond. I figure if they can go to the trouble of learning to understand their human-assigned names and the typical assortment of dog-words, the least I can do is try to invite them to play in their own body language.