The Dog Who Talks
By Ursula Kempe; photos by Diane Abolt
Again : Once upon a time…
Es war einmal…
This is a true story, and happened in the fall of this year. We had TDI business at a most incredible obedience club. This is the type of club where you can spend a whole day with your dog. Once you are a member, training is free from basic behavior, to puppy classes, agility etc. At this club the dogs run free and interact with each other. They run and play and their eyes are shiny. There they can do whatever dogs do.
What an amazing place! This place is like the other side of the “RAINBOW BRIDGE”, except it is on earth. What a joy to be able to go to a place where you can spend your weekend with like minded people and be there with your dog. They even thought of the families with kids, as there is a special play area for them as well. By the way, this club has more then a thousand members; it is truly one of a kind! There are acres and acres of manicured meadows and woods where you can enjoy yourself and even at night after work you can make use of the facilities as well. Too good to be true, no it is true! To create something like this takes a very special person and great vision. Anyway, enough about this most wonderful place, by and by in the future I will tell you where it is, but not right now. Right now I want to tell you about the dog who talks.
When we first arrived we were greeted by this most beautiful Samoyed. She was checking us out. We were at the kitchen area were you can buy food. After settling down with some coffee and cake we were able to look at the dogs running around, playing and chasing each other. Some came by for a quick petting session with us.
All over sudden this beautiful Husky settled down between us (envision small round tables with chairs, just like an old fashioned Ice Cream Parlor). We did not see her owner, and then the dog started to sing to us with the most incredible low soft voice. If you never heard a Husky sing, you should try to have that experience, it is beautiful. Of course, we wanted to give her a treat, but one cannot just do this. So we tried to ignore her, but she wore down Diane Abolt first, who was with me (she took all the photos). Diane gave her a treat, so I figured after looking around “what the heck” this dog knows what she is doing, she has developed a pattern and of course she got another treat. Well, to make a long story short, we found out this dog had been doing this for a long time and knows just to whom to go (she saw us coming). That figures!
Anyway, after we talked to the dog’s owner for a while she showed us just what this Husky could do. And then she had her talk, yes talk. The dog actually said very clearly “HUNGER”. It was most amazing. The ranges of the vocal cords of Huskys are most amazing! There are probably some other northern dog breeds which are capable of this as well. Maybe if you have one, please share it with us so we all may learn some more about our most incredible dogs.
This was the first time we heard a dog speak. What a treat! Of course this trainer has a lot of patience and is absolutely wonderful with her dogs (she has two other mixed breed dogs). You just could see the love between her and her canine companions.
“A DOG WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER”