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8 y/o daughter lost her hearing. Had to learn to sign. Struggled at first as none of her friends knew how to talk to her. One day I noticed our Labrador run to the treat cupboard after she signed "treat?" to her. In the absence of friends our dog had learned sign language for her
⧖ @fesshole I seem to remember there was a scientist who taught an Orangutan quite an extensive sign language repertoire so they could talk to each other
@anarchic_teapot@lingo.lol@christineburns @fesshole Orang utans, chimps, gorillas can all learn our signs (and we can learn theirs)... but so can cats and dogs. One of the funniest videos I ever saw was a cat signing "Give me what you're eating" at its owner.
@anarchic_teapot can confirm - I've taught Chihuahua some ASL commands and other Hearing-Dog basics.
I also taught a cat, but she chooses to pretend otherwise.
@christineburns @fesshole
@RamenCatholic @anarchic_teapot @christineburns @fesshole That’s like my dog who pretends to be the dumbest dog alive - until you pull out a treat then you have the goodest (not a word, but it should be) dog ever :)
@anarchic_teapot Now please provide the link to that video 
@christineburns @fesshole
@anarchic_teapot @lappenjammer @christineburns @fesshole Nice. This reminds me of my own cats, who recognize a gesture that we make to mean "no more food". It consists of two open palms with fingers pointing down. When we make the gesture, the cats immediately stop begging.
@juliangonggrijp @anarchic_teapot @lappenjammer @christineburns @fesshole
Our sign is open hands, fingers up, rotating wrists to show palms and backs of hands. Like we're dealing Blackjack in Vegas or something
@anarchic_teapot @christineburns @fesshole my cats don't ask by sign or any other means. They just take....
