Shadowing Practice: Do Our Dogs Miss Us When We’re Away? - Learn English Speaking with Video

a dog mom to 10 year old harvey is joining us from texas hi marissa well i'm

so glad to be here

so yes um i am the lucky mom to harvey he will be 10 later this year harvey

and i actually met

10 years ago but i'm quite positive we were family in a past life i just know it um we met

We met in San Diego,

back when I lived in California.

I was volunteering for a foster organization.

I was his foster mother.

And as the story goes,

of course, I meet him.

And I know instantly that I've known him for many times.

You're his person.

Oh, yeah.

He is my person.

So, yes, I was a foster win,

as I like to call it.

So Harvey and I have now spent the last nine years traveling the United States together.

We've lived in California.

We lived for a little bit in Minneapolis.

We were in Chicago for four years.

And now we're down here in Dallas, Texas.

So I swear he has more airline miles than most people do.

But it's been really fun to just travel this country with him and kind of explore with him.

But my question for you.

So we've been together a long time.

And whenever I get ready to leave or head out the door,

Harvey seems to do the same thing.

So whether I'm going out to the mailbox for a minute

or maybe I'm going for some errands that I'm running for the day,

Harvey will get anxious.

So my question for you is more of the concept of time.

So do dogs understand the concept of time?

Does he understand that when I'm gone for five minutes or the full day,

does he know how long I've been gone?

Because it seems like either way,

it has the same emotional impact on him.

When he sees me getting ready to leave out the door,

he seems to get that same emotional reaction.

So I'm curious just what he's thinking about as I'm getting ready to leave out the door.

Great observation.

You know, the flip side of that attachment we were talking about is that in separation,

dogs are stressed.

They're anxious.

Right.

And that's part of the bond.

Actually, it's the kind of negative side of the bond,

which is that when you're attached to someone,

you don't want to see them go.

And when you're gone, they're stressed.

And when you're gone, there's some stress involved.

Probably why Sadie perked up when you returned.

Right.

There's the relief of that.

And it is a really cool question to say,

well, does that mean they don't have a sense of how long you're gone?

And there actually was research that looked at this question.

What they did was they looked at the greeting behavior that you get when you come back in the door, right?

That great, enthusiastic reply.

And they had people leave their dogs for a few minutes or a half an hour or several hours.

And they looked at the intensity of the greeting.

And they found that the longer the people were gone,

the more tail wagging, licking,

shaking, intense a greeting they got.

So dogs in their behavior look like they do appreciate the distance,

the time you've been gone from them.

And in that way, they're kind of marking time.

Yeah, it's definitely different, even though they're whatever,

excited every time you come back in the door.

Yeah, I noticed this with Sadie that,

especially when she was really well,

that if you're gone for a few minutes,

I remember coming and saying,

look, I've only been gone for a few minutes and you're this excited.

But if you're gone for a long time,

she would like go around in circles and bark and do all the things.

Pull out all the stuff.

The toys.

Yes.

Run and get a toy and all that.

He wants to run and go grab something and bring it back to me and show me right when I get back.

Yeah.

I also think they mark time through smell, right?

Smells change over time.

And our spaces smell like us, right?

The longer you're gone, everybody has a smell.

It's a perfectly normal thing.

And our dogs know it.

They'll recognize us by our smell alone.

The longer you're gone, the less your space smells of you being there.

So time is kind of marked in the passage of odor during the day.

Everything is, when you read this book,

Marissa, everything is through the nose.

Everything is about the smell.

I mean, because it's how they see the world, right?

They see the world through their nose.

Yeah.

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And that's how their brain works, olfactory cognition.

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Yeah.

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Thank you, Marissa.

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Thank you.

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Best to your pump.

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You and Harvey, 10 years together.

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That's beautiful.

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So you believe that trying to show your dog that you're the boss can be harmful.

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And we know that there are lots of trainers who do that,

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you know, like I'm the one in charge.

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Why do you not condone that?

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Well, again, I look at the science,

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you know, people are looking at wolf behavior to try to explain how you should be with your dog.

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And there's very old science that said,

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oh, when you look at wolves in a captive environment,

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they establish a dominance hierarchy and their leaders are alphas who have access to all the resource.

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But then when people could actually study how wolves behave naturally in the wild,

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it turned out they live in family packs and there are leaders of the group.

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It's the parents who live with their offspring and their offspring's offspring.

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And so they're not maintaining their leadership by force, by being bossy.

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They're not bullying, right?

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They just know more.

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And so they tend to be in charge.

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And we are also in that kind of situation.

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Dogs are our family.

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They view us as parents, essentially, in that pack.

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And we control all aspects of their life already, right?

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We don't need to worry that they're going to try to threaten our leadership

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and boss them or bully them around for it.

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I notice that sometimes your dog knows

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that you're coming even before the car pulls up or if the car's in the driveway,

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or we've seen these stories on social media of the dog waiting in the window for the kids to come home,

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or the dog knows that the school bus is coming long before the school bus comes.

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How do they know that?

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Are they smelling it, or are they just know it's this time of day?

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I think both things are true, right?

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Again, they're great.

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They understand our habits.

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So if we create a habit,

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they learn that perfectly right away.

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That's how you can train a dog, just by creating relationships.

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That's how Pavlov trained the dogs.

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That's right, right?

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Like they learn association.

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So if you come and go at the same time every day,

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they know when that time is and they're ready for you.

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And if you feed them at the same time every day.

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They know that as well, right?

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Even if we don't think we're doing it,

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the dog will show up ready to be fed.

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Yeah.

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But also I do think the smells of the room change over the course of the day

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and they're attuned to that just like it gets dark outside and we notice that the day is ending, right?

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It's a totally normal thing for us to notice.

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They're also noticing the day in odors.

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I think this is so interesting because,

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you know, for years we were told that your dog doesn't know the difference between five minutes or five hours.

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So what you were saying to Marissa really changes all that.

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That your dog isn't saying,

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oh, well, 7.07, or it's been 25 minutes or it's been an hour.

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Right.

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That's a human concept.

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That's a human concept.

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Yeah.

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They do know the difference between it's been five hours or it's been five minutes or it's been five days.

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That's right.

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They do.

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They feel that and they're noting all those changes of the day as we'd expect, right?

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And when you're not there, they're stressed.

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Yeah, it's stressful to be apart, right?

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But they also can calm from that stress.

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For some dogs, it's more stressful than others.

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I had a dog, Sophie,

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who just literally, I couldn't leave her anywhere.

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She had such anxiety.

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She's like howling in the hotel rooms.

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It's like an insecure attachment, right?

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Yes.

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But with a dog who has a secure attachment,

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when you come, they call.

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I always say that one of the great joys of my life has been my dogs.

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So I am deeply committed to their well-being,

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just like our friends at the Farmer's Dog.

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From my golden retrievers to my cocker spaniels,

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I've had 21 dogs over the years.

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They remind me to slow down,

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to be present, and to appreciate the small comforts in life.

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The Farmer's Dog makes human-grade food for our dogs with real ingredients and minimal processing.

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To all my fellow dog lovers,

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you know our beloved companions give us so much,

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and that is why The Farmer's Dog helps us do our best for them.

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “Do Our Dogs Miss Us When We’re Away?”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: dog, gone, smell, harvey. Deze video bevat 190 zinnen en 1580 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 8:46. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 180 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 88% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
greet werkwoord	/ɡɹiːt/	begroeten, ontvangen
attachment zelfstandig naamwoord	/əˈtæt͡ʃmənt/	gehechtheid
odor zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈoʊdəɹ/	reuk
offspring zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɔfspɹɪŋ/	afstammelingen, kinderen
stressful bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈstɹɛsfəl/	stressvol
distress zelfstandig naamwoord	/dɪˈstɹɛs/	druk, stress
anxious bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈæŋkʃəs/	bezorgd
attune werkwoord	/əˈt(j)un/	stemmen
condone werkwoord	/kənˈdoʊn/	vergeven, gedogen
errand zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈɛɹənd/	boodschap
olfactory bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ɑlˈfæk.təɹ.i/	olfactorisch
retriever zelfstandig naamwoord	/ɹiˈtɹivəɹ/	retriever
spaniel zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈspænjəl/	spaniël
driveway zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈdɹaɪvˌweɪ/	oprit, inrit
captive zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈkæptɪv/	gevangene

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Betekenis
show up werkwoord	tentoonstellen
slow down werkwoord	afremmen
turn out werkwoord	uitvallen, resulteren

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

The longer you're gone, everybody has a smell.
They'll recognize us by our smell alone.
Why do you not condone that?
It's a totally normal thing for us to notice.

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

Structuur	In de video
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	I've known · have now spent · We've lived
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	are stressed · be fed · were told

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 54 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals they're, you're, I'm. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De “th”-klanken: enthusiastic /ɪnˌθjuːzɪˈæstɪk/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/
De klanken “sh” en “zh”: anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/, cognition /kɑɡˈnɪʃ.ən/, separation /ˌsɛp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, observation /ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃn̩/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: olfactory /ɑlˈfæk.təɹ.i/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, hierarchy /ˈhaɪ.ə.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/, enthusiastic /ɪnˌθjuːzɪˈæstɪk/, separation /ˌsɛp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: errand /ˈɛɹənd/, captive /ˈkæptɪv/, behave /bɪˈheɪv/, beloved /bɪˈlʌvd/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: attachment /əˈtæt͡ʃmənt/, anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/, olfactory /ɑlˈfæk.təɹ.i/, spaniel /ˈspænjəl/, captive /ˈkæptɪv/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: greet /ɡɹiːt/, cognition /kɑɡˈnɪʃ.ən/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/

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Belangrijke woorden in deze video

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Zinnen om te herhalen

Grammatica in deze video

Uitspraak om op te letten

Zo oefen je met deze video

Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?