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My cat once hurt their foot and was limping so I gave them some treats and food.

They now limp around with their front paw raised anytime they want food.

My Chihuahua mix is a very eager lapdog, couch potato, and bedbug. However if she is in any of those places and I say, 'excuse me,' or, 'I gotta get up,' then she knows it's time for her to move and gets out of the way for me.

I train my cat to speak. I wish I knew it was forbidden cursed knowledge. She dose not shut up. If it's 10am and im late on breakfas, she will meow non stop.

I can't sleep in anymore.

My dog learned the sound of the keyboard shortcut to put a windows machine to sleep: Win + X, U, S

He'll be dead asleep on the bed next to me, but the moment those keys are hit he full sprints to the backyard for his final potty of the night while I brush my teeth.

I have yelled "Hey!" so many times at so many pets over the years (dogs and cats) when I caught them messing around with something they shouldn't be that they all started to think "Hey" was their name.

When one of my cats is on my lap, she responds to "ok" as time to get up. Started with, "ok kitty, I need to get up," but now just the "ok" and she jumps down so I can stand up.

I work from home and there's daily shipping logistics involved. My dog knows the word "UPS" and will immediately alert and generally be insane.

Our greyhound knew what “road trip” meant. He LOVED going for rides in the car, and if he heard one of us say that then he’d immediately be at the door, jumping excitedly…

Somehow “Okay” has become the command to ask my dog to get off my lap so I can stand up. I’m not sure how it started or why.

My new pup is supposed to sit before getting a treat. So as soon as the seal of the treat bag crinkles, his butt is planted to the ground.

I think it's delightful. My wife insists that we're supposed to link sitting with the vocal sit command. (I want him to be friendly and well-behaved. She wants him to take orders.)

"Face".

She will put her head through any circle if she thinks I want her to, because I would always get annoyed at her when she wiggled too much trying to get her harness on as a puppy.

My dog passed away many years ago now, but "Oops" is one that I hear really commonly because I would drop stuff off the counter when cooking. Just saying "Oops" would have the dog come running to see what good stuff hit the floor.

Also, not exactly a command, but that dog's hearing was so exceptional that he could hear the jangling sound of me picking up his leash while I was inside the house and he'd come running from the back yard across the whole house.

Of course, his hearing was always selective. The things he loved to do he could hear perfectly, while things he dislikes such as obedience training it was like he was deaf lol.

Sudo

My dog gets a treat when I leave to the office, and my cat got wind of it. Now she beats the dog to the door every morning and is meowing until she gets a dog treat.

I could never get dogs to go around properly a tree on a retractable to unbollox it. Their instinct always seemed to be to go the wrong way and I just cold not get them to do it in such a way they realized that was the fix. My current dog basically just did it as a puppy and then I associated a word with it.

Other way round actually, I mentioned this I another comment about my neighbour's geese

I pass them every day when I'm walking the dog and always give them dandelion leaves; it's basically goose-crack. They go nuts when they see me, and will even let me pat their heads

My wife mentioned one day that when she's walking the dog, if she passes the geese they go nuts and run up to the fence, honking like mad and it freaks her out.

Took us a few tries to figure out the geese think the dog is bringing the human with the dandelion leaves

My bichon/poodle mix has learned the sound of a telephone call. Whether it's vibrating ringing, the ringtone sound, the ringing sound the phone makes when you are calling someone, or just the inflected way that I say "hello" when answering the phone. He even picks up on any of the above sounds on TV, and he seems to be able to differentiate between the short vibrate of a notification versus the long vibration of a ring.

I have a lot of phone anxiety which means I often get up and pace around my apartment a lot when I'm on the phone. He thinks this pacing implies that I want to play with him, so he gets super excited, chases me around, and tries to grab my ankles or jump on the furniture and nip at my fingers. When I want to play with him, these behaviours are cute and fun. But he has associated me walking around my apartment with wanting to play which is distracting and frustrating when I'm already on edge from my phone call anxiety.