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| Print | By | January 28, 2009 1:34 PM

If dogs could talk, what would they be tell us, and what would we prioritize to be highly important communications?

This very popular video of dogs, prompted by their owners, has already been viewed over 14,275,023 times, since July 2006.

Teaching what appear to be eager pooches, to verbally share that they love us, or to greet us with friendly salutations seems to be high on the scale of canine training these days. If judged by the popularity of this very compelling and humorous item, I think that people are fascinated by how our pooches can formulate words as they copy the sounds that their owners make.

I don't know about you, but I am feeling a little unsettled by this trend. After all, if I could teach my dog to talk, who knows what the consequences might be. The possibilities are endless and are quite disconcerting.

What are your thoughts about teaching dogs to echo back our words? Would you want your dog to talk to you? Leave a comment and let us know.

RELATED TOPICS: Behavior (25) , Blogs (262) , Dogs (68)

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Anonymous January 29, 2009 9:43 AM

Good heavens, one of the best things about dogs is that they DON'T talk!

Anonymous January 29, 2009 9:55 AM

That was just adorable! A couple of those dogs really seemed like they were talking English! LOL! :>)

Anonymous January 29, 2009 10:30 AM

My dogs DO talk! Doesn't everyone's? LOL

Anonymous January 29, 2009 1:05 PM

How adorable. We have a black lab that tries to talk. You can't make out what she is saying, but you sure know she is talking.

Anonymous January 29, 2009 5:22 PM

Good grief -- if my cats could talk Missy would be fighting and yelling at Mouse all the time, Mouse would be bossing everyone around, Wheezel would be whining more than ever, Pirate would be in my lap wondering what the *&^% was going on, and Chester would be going on and on about how he's the handsomest one of all...thank goodness they only meow, purr, and various other cat noises! hehehe

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