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I didn't teach her, but one of my dogs turns off the Roomba. She figured out that thwacking the light with her paw stopped it. So anytime it gets near her, instead of moving, she turns it off.

Sudo

My dog gets a treat when I leave to the office, and my cat got wind of it. Now she beats the dog to the door every morning and is meowing until she gets a dog treat.

My dog learned the sound of the keyboard shortcut to put a windows machine to sleep: Win + X, U, S

He'll be dead asleep on the bed next to me, but the moment those keys are hit he full sprints to the backyard for his final potty of the night while I brush my teeth.

My dog passed away many years ago now, but "Oops" is one that I hear really commonly because I would drop stuff off the counter when cooking. Just saying "Oops" would have the dog come running to see what good stuff hit the floor.

Also, not exactly a command, but that dog's hearing was so exceptional that he could hear the jangling sound of me picking up his leash while I was inside the house and he'd come running from the back yard across the whole house.

Of course, his hearing was always selective. The things he loved to do he could hear perfectly, while things he dislikes such as obedience training it was like he was deaf lol.

My cat thinks the sound of my Playstation powering down means "time for bed". He's not wrong...

I have no idea how my dog learned this, but whenever anyone says “Window”, he rushes to the closest window and stares outside and barks.

Our greyhound knew what “road trip” meant. He LOVED going for rides in the car, and if he heard one of us say that then he’d immediately be at the door, jumping excitedly…

I work from home and there's daily shipping logistics involved. My dog knows the word "UPS" and will immediately alert and generally be insane.

Both of my cat's think their names are "Hungry?"

Cat screams constantly when he wants anything and he’s so damn cute we always give in. So it’s just screaming to wake up and feed me, screaming to scratch his bum while he eats (he LOVES that shit), screaming for attention, screaming to go outside. He’s so annoying but god damn do I love him.

There were two.

1. Every time he farted it was awful so we'd shoo him out of the room. Eventually, he'd immediately walk out of the room right AFTER he farted.

2. We'd end the day watching TV in the living room. Eventually he learned that the click of the TV meant it was time to go to bed, so any time the TV got turned off, he'd get up and go into his bed in our bedroom.

When my GF started visiting she commented on how cute my cat was for quietly meowing for food. She said she had a cat that would rake his claws across the wall to get her attention, and demonstrated this just once in front of my cat. That same night the little guy started doing that whenever he wanted anything after just seeing her do it once.

"Ok" 🙃

I heard you could train your dog to tell you when they need out by putting a bell on the door. I didn’t have a bell, but did have empty beer can and random nuts and bolts.

She learned to knock over my beer if she wants out.

We lived in a house with a bunch of roommates when we got our dog, and at some point "fuck off" became "go lie down on your bed and get outta my space"... So now if "go lie down" isn't taking, then "fuck off" works...

Cat gets treats when the dishwasher starts, not sure if I trained him or if he trained me but that is what happens 100% of the time or else he gets loud.

We accidentally made our cat yell when we point at her. Not even sure how it happened tbh; some combo of squirt-bottle-get-off-the-counter and very half-assed start to clicker training. At least we have a goofy party trick when we have people over I guess?

I taught my half Maltese half shih tzu the command move over. Every time I'd take her for rides she'd sit in my lap and if I needed to go around a corner I'd say move over and put her in the passenger seat. Now if she's in my spot on the couch she'll growl if I try to move her. But say move over and she'll go