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Dog: Oh you got  new owner!

Cat: Yeah. She picked me up from the pound yesterday

Dog: She is so cute! What did you name her?

Cat: Steve.

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wow over the hedge fandom long time no see

That’s actually an interesting question. I mean when you call your dog by its name, it has learned that specific sound is something you make only when you want it to come. It doesn’t really understand “oh that’s my name, an appellation my human uses to describe me to others as well as address me in speech”.

Now dogs bark, we just rarely pay attention to the nuances of barking; cats meow, we just rarely pay attention to the nuances of meowing.

What if they actually make slightly different sounds depending on who they want an action from?

Note to self: in next life study animal behaviour and investigate this fully