googling challenge

[anotheranon]

I am advised that there is a dog obedience training facility in PA somewhere that will teach you to train your dog to respond to voice commands.

In Klingon.

Now, I have no reason to doubt my source, but this is "I heard it from a friend of a friend of.." sort of thing, and (admittedly extremely brief) search for "train dog klingon" this morning has netted me no proof (though I did learn that there is no Klingon word for "garden". Fancy that...), so I feel somewhat premature in sharing this wildly funny but unsubstantiated story with you :P

So I issue a challenge - can someone find me a link or a story - anything really - about this fabled school? Even a phone number would work - for something this odd I'd choke down my phone-phobia to check it out.

Go to it!

P.S. Cats cannot be voice trained, in Klingon or any other language. However, I do suspect they speak Elvish.

Comments

[ex-idragosa.livejournal.com]

I know a guy who had a big huge gorgeous Rottweiler that only understood German. That was one hell of a dog. Sweet personality, too -- I remember one of my daughters feeding him right out of their hand, and she was like 6 years old!

And yes, cats speak elvish. Where do you think the Elves learned it from?

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

IMHO, elves evolved from cats. Just look at the elves in LOTR and tell me it's not glaringly obvious!

[ex-idragosa.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, in very very early versions of 'The Silmarillion' (long before even 'The Hobbit' was written), Sauron was known as 'Lord of the Cats'.

[kat1392.livejournal.com]

I don't see why you couldn't train your dog in Klingon. It's all learned response: she says this, I do this, I get reward. As long as the recognize the signal, you could use sign language and they would understand.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

I don't doubt that they could. It just tickles me that anyone would want to!

[kat1392.livejournal.com]

Maybe they figure it will cut down on confusion in the show ring! LOL!!! Humans are strange critters.

[zen4me.livejournal.com]

Completely OT - but I love your icon...heh

I wish it was a refridgerator magnet, so I could hang it along side the one that says "my parents said I could be anything, so I became a lesbian"

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Oh, you KNOW I love a Google challenge. Pretty much all I came up with were people naming their dogs after Klingon characters, Star Trek fans who also happen to be dog owners, fanfic that includes Klingon dogs, and booksellers who happen to sell both dog training books and Star trek novels. :p

HOWEVER ...

I did get ONE hit within the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, but a Page Not Found when I clicked on it. 'tis possible that the rumour is elderly and the somebody who was doing it is no longer active.

P.S. My search, BTW, was in Google Advanced, with "klingon" and "obedience" in the "with all of the words" line and "dogs" and "dog" in the "with at least one of the words" line. Tried the same search with "obedience" removed; then tried it with "training" substituted ... same results, just in a different order.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Shoulda known you'd jump on this one :)

Interesting result! I will keep it in mind (packing/homeworking now).

I Remember!

[shemhazai.livejournal.com]

It was my friend Erica English. her brother, who I think lives near pittsburgh, has three dogs. When he had the big stupid lab trained by some local guys, they gave him the options of english, german and klingon.

I'll get the name from her next time I see it.

See you tomorrow (squee!)

Drea