07/08/2026
Our friend Kisa is a smart cookie!!
As Mom made the list of words I know, she was surprised at how many it was. She is sure there are some she has forgotten to list, but some she doesn’t use a lot. Some phrases or words you have heard Mom say in a video, like p*e mail, I don’t actually know. I am too busy sniffing my p*e mail to listen, lol. Mom also tries to communicate to me in short sentences (Kisa sentences) that I will understand by combining words I know without filler words. Instead of “Do you want to go out back?” she just says “out back?” She has read that this helps dogs understand better because they aren’t having to listen to you say a lot of words and pick out the ones they know and try to put together the meaning of what you said. It’s much easier for dogs if we use only the words they know when saying a sentence to them. Instead of “That lizard is dead.” Mom just says “lizard dead.”
What word or phrase that I know surprises you the most?
What word or phrase do I NOT know that surprises you?
What word or phrase should I learn next?
Words Kisa knows:
1. Across
2. Bath
3. Bed
4. Bird
5. Booms
6. Brother
7. Car
8. Check it
9. Check your tree (sniff to see if a squirrel has been at a tree)
10. Come (or come here)
11. C**n (raccoon)
12. Daddy
13. Dead
14. Deer
15. Dig
16. Down
17. Find it
18. Food
19. Fox
20. Frog
21. Front (front door)
22. Get it
23. Go
24. Gone
25. Good girl
26. Grandma
27. Grass
28. Heel (work in progress)
29. Home
30. Inside
31. It’s okay
32. Keylime
33. Kisa
34. Lay
35. Leave it
36. Left (when walking, take a left)
37. Lizard
38. Mommy
39. No
40. No speak
41. Okay
42. Out
43. Out front
44. Over (used for agility jumps)
45. Paint (come here and paint)
46. Paw (give me your paw)
47. P**p
48. Popcorn
49. Potty (p*e)
50. Ride
51. Right (when walking, take a right)
52. Right back (leaving the room or going outside, but back within a couple minutes)
53. Run, run, run (when I need her to move quickly because of a loose dog, skunk, etc.)
54. Sit
55. Snake
56. Squeaker
57. Squirrel
58. Stay
59. Stop (when walking, stop)
60. Take it (take whatever is on the floor – a treat, fallen food, etc.)
61. Take one (when multiple treats are on the floor, take only one – used in training)
62. Toy
63. Treat
64. Tree
65. Up (get up on whatever I’m pointing to, also look up at something like a bird or squirrel)
66. Wait
67. Walk
68. Water
69. What?
70. Where is it?
Phrases combining or some of those to make “Kisa sentences”:
1. Big bird (hawk, buzzard, etc.)
2. Bird gone
3. Bird p**p
4. Bird up (flying in the sky or up on a power line)
5. Bird up tree
6. Car…wait (when a car is coming down the street and she is supposed to stop and wait for it to pass)
7. Check the tree (sniff the tree to see if a squirrel has been there)
8. Check your birds (run out to the bird feeder in the back yard)
9. Daddy go (said when leaving the house)
10. Daddy gone
11. Deer p**p
12. Deer gone
13. Fox p**p
14. Fox gone
15. Frog dead
16. Frog gone
17. Frog p**p
18. Go tell Daddy (when I’m working and he is on the couch and she wants something)
19. Grandma go (said when leaving the house)
20. Grandma gone
21. Grandma home (a place, like “Kisa go Grandma home” and not meaning Grandma is home)
22. Kisa bath
23. Kisa out back? (does she want to go out back?)
24. Kisa p**p (a directive to p**p)
25. Kisa potty (a directive to potty)
26. Kisa treat (“Do you want a treat? OR :Come get a treat.”)
27. Lizard dead
28. Lizard gone
29. Mommy bath (so she knows I’m about to take a shower and it isn’t for her)
30. Mommy go (said when leaving the house)
31. No dig (stop digging or a pre-command to not dig when it looks like she is thinking about it)
32. Out back (the back yard)
33. P**p or inside (Telling her to either p**p or go inside, usually at night before bed when she is just sniffing and not focusing on business. She will immediately go in if she doesn’t need to p**p, or start searching for a place, p**p, and head inside.)
34. Sit or inside (when she is getting hot in the yard and I want her to stop walking/running)
35. Snake dead
36. Snake gone
37. Someone is at your front door (This is the notification Grandma’s phone says when her ring camera picks up someone at the front door. I learned on my own what it meant and as soon as I hear it I run to Grandma’s front door to see who is there.)
38. Squirrel gone
39. Squirrel up tree
40. Treat(s) gone
