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“Point at the ball? Nothin’.
Side eye glance at the leash? OHHH IT’S WALK TIME!”
“Fun fact I heard: only dogs and some parrots understand pointing.
So, we had a wonderful and very smart horse. But of course, not being a dog, she didn’t understand pointing… at first. I decided to teach her.
I began each training by holding up my index finger and saying “look!”. When she looked at my finger, I gave her a grape. Pretty soon this was a little highlight of her day.
Then I began putting the grape on various surfaces about an inch from my finger. The “look” game soon became “ahhh, the grape will always be within an inch of the human’s weird microscopic 1/5 of a hoof”.
As it went on, I would hide the grape further and further away. She caught on that an imaginary line from my hand, down my finger and out into space would lead to the grape. Soon I was hiding it all the way across the stall, in places like behind the feed tub and stuck in the window frame.
So it can be taught. But for some reason, dogs understand it naturally (heck, they point stuff out to *us*)!
Not sure why parrots know it, though. Any ideas?”
“Funny thing is dogs are one of the only animals we know of that can understand the finger pointing gesture.”