ASL among animals....

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Why cannot a deaf dog, cat, ferret, or rabbits use ASL?

See, I am aware that Siberian Huskies have very high prey drive. Would it be nice if a deaf cat would use ASL to talk to a deaf Siberian Huskie and explain that he does not have to eat cats? Then they would become friends.

Maybe a deaf rabbit would be able to talk to a deaf Beagle in ASL and tell them that they don't have to hunt rabbits.

The deaf ferrets, deaf rabbits, deaf dogs, and deaf cats would get together and all have fun eating carrots, playing cartwheel, make fruit salad and use ASL in the good old Deaf World :).
 
What about Cows, Pigs, and Chickens but then again we might not want to know what they are thinking.
 
For humans, we require a developed Broca's and Wernicke's region in order to process and utilize ASL and language.
Broca's area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wernicke's area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Some animals might understand what a sign is meant to say over time if trained, but they do not understand how to communicate and make a sentence with it. You can teach a dog the sign for roll over but if you put it in a sentence, it probably doesn't understand what you are saying.

Also, how can a cat or dog use ASL back if they have paws for appendages?

So far, the animals that have deeper functioning are dolphins, chimps and gorillas that have been known to understand ASL sentences, from what I have seen.
 
BoricuaChevere said:
Hmm good point. But for some reason I want to know what dogs and cats think o_O
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You do?...well, ask them! :giggle:

Anyhow, my doggie does use sign (somewhat)...She licks my leg when she wants to go out,,she looks at me quizzingly if I'm upset...she goes "round & round" when she's happy...she growls or barks when she's annoyed....she "whines" and puts her head down when she don't feel well...if I ask her "do you want to go out?"...and she doesn't, she'll turn her head....she also puts her paw on me whenever she wants attention or some cuddling.....

As for our C-A-T....another story!...He will jump on me, get in my face, looking at me squarely in the eyes....and I'm thinking..."what does he want?"...When I attempt to soothe him, he jumps off and flips his tail...as if saying..."HAHA,Sucker!".....He also tries to outrun me in the early AM to the kitchen, wanting a "treat" before I get my coffee....He gets all entangled in my feet, and tries to trip me if I don't get the treat to him as quick as I can.
 
My bunnies have a "sign language" all of their own. It varies from rabbit to rabbit, but I know exactly what they are trying to tell me.

As for teaching them ASL... I've had mixed results. All of my rabbits seem to recognize :ily: as "Give me bunny kisses, please!". If i sign ILY to them, they will run up to the sides of their cages and give me bunny kisses! :D

As for their names, I have kind of made up home signs for them. (I did that because I can't pronounce some of their names, and I talk about them a lot. I got tired of being made fun of for mispronouncing my rabbits' names.) They recognize their "name signs". I made them very simple, because I wanted to see if they could recognize their own names, and the other rabbits' names. Licorice can recognize her own name and everyone else's. Cinnamon recognizes his own and Licorice's, but not the other two. Odie and Oreo only recognize their own names. (So I prove that girls are smarter than guys! Well, in the rabbit world, that is...)
 
dereksbicycles said:
Why cannot a deaf dog, cat, ferret, or rabbits use ASL?

See, I am aware that Siberian Huskies have very high prey drive. Would it be nice if a deaf cat would use ASL to talk to a deaf Siberian Huskie and explain that he does not have to eat cats? Then they would become friends.

Maybe a deaf rabbit would be able to talk to a deaf Beagle in ASL and tell them that they don't have to hunt rabbits.

The deaf ferrets, deaf rabbits, deaf dogs, and deaf cats would get together and all have fun eating carrots, playing cartwheel, make fruit salad and use ASL in the good old Deaf World :).
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A rabbit could use it poop to spell out words like the Morse code .
 
My parents' snobby standard poodle would never learn ASL to talk to me. I wanted to use ASL to tell her that I needed to clean her eyes because they were dirty. She growls when I try to fix her eyes. My uncle was able to fix her eyes. I think he was able to talk to her in English and tell her that she needed her eyes clean and to be a good girl.

I was amazed. I wish I knew how to talk to someone who cannot use ASL. I hope that one day when Polly passes away, she'll remember me and remember how hard I tried to clean her eyes. I hope she is nicer to me when she sees how clean her eyes are now. She does not want to admit that she is getting older and needs help cleaning her eyes.
 
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