How to teach your dog not to bark, the Dutch way
Tags:amsterdam petsThe following was a conversation on the tram between my mom and a forty-year-old woman with a small terrier:
MOM: “Aww, what a cute dog! The dogs here are so well-behaved! They walk around without leashes, and they never bark.”
WOMAN: “Well, with so many floors in the apartments, they can’t bark.”
MOM: “Of course, but our dog would be barking its head off. How do you teach them such good manners?”
WOMAN: “We say ‘Don’t bark.’”
MOM: “Really? That’s it?”
WOMAN: “Well, we say it in Dutch…”
So there you have it: Dutch dogs are intellectual enough to realize that barking is not part of a civilized, modern society. Therefore, they stop barking when asked politely. hahaha
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