language

wombat is quite smart (and i'm not just saying that cuz she's my baby). she's got a pretty good grasp of the english language (understanding it, she's yet to speak in english....maybe that'll come one day). besides the basic dog commands of sit, stay, down, up... she knows "outside" (which means the backyard-- she'll jump up and go to the back door if you ask her if she wants to go outside), "park" (the park across the street), "walk" (going further than the park-- she goes to the front door for both those. with "park" she knows to go to the curb/kerb and then we go across the street. with "walk" she knows we go right or left out of the driveway). she knows "breakfast" (and the aussie "breakie") and gets very excited and runs to the kitchen for that. she knows "bed" and "YOUR bed" (sometimes if we just say "go to bed" she tries our bed so we say "go to YOUR bed" and she knows to go to her own bed). she knows which toy is her kong (ask her to find the kong and she'll go get it) and her koala. we haven't taught her names for any other toys yet. she's a quick learner. we haven't really tried to teach her anything. she's just picked it up from hearing us say it. the only thing she has had a LOT of trouble with is "heel". i think it's not really that she doesn't understand but more she just gets too excited outside and isn't focused enough to do it (she will heel sometimes but she's not really consistent with it). we'll get there.