240 | Your Dog Knows the Command. That’s Not the Problem.

Beyond Obedience | Dog Training, Dog Body Language, Anxious Dogs, Scared Dogs, Reactive Dogs · Sep 17, 2026 · 22m

Hey Dog Lover 🐾

Come.

Stay.

Leave it.

Off.

Down.

Let’s go.

No.

We humans are incredibly verbal.

And somewhere along the way, we seem to have decided that because our dogs live with us, they must also be fluent in English.

So when we say “come” and our dog doesn’t come, what do we do?

We say it again.

Usually louder.

“COME!”

As though the problem is that they didn’t hear the English the first time.

Sometimes dog training looks an awful lot like shouting English as a second language at your dog.

And then comes the sentence I hear all the time:

“But my dog KNOWS come.”

Okay.

Maybe they do.

But…