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I have had dogs all my life and I've always found that they understand far more than most people give them credit for, I have had collies, German Shepard's, Labradors, cocker spaniels, and a very expressive rotwieller. I am now the very lucky owner of a nearly 20 year old beagle and the mother of an almost year old Doberman, in addition I am grandmother to a 2 year old Doberman and a 8 month old Doberman.

I am almost ready to believe that in fact Dobermans are not really dogs at all but little people in disguise. My new belief began when my daughter left her boyfriend and came home to live while they tried to work out their differences. She soon got a call telling her to come and get Oscar (his Doberman) because the dog was tearing down the house, eating the window sills and had completely forgotten that he was house broken.

I was very hesitant to allow Oscar to come to my home since he was known to be dog aggressive and my beagle was almost 18 at the time, but Oscar had evidently decided that my daughter was his person and he would never be happy without her so we decided to give it a try.
Oscar came into our home and immediately paid homage to Ole Jim (the beagle) and he remembered that he was house broken and slept with my daughter every night. The only real problem we had was if she left for any amount of time Oscar would suck on blankets until she got home.

My son who still lives at home decided that since Oscar was such a cool dog, he wanted a Doberman also so he bought a puppy and named him Killer. Oscar took to this puppy like he had personally given birth to it, he followed the pup around and "told" on him when he was bad, played with him and generally put up with whatever the pup wanted to dish out.

We lost the puppy while he was under anesthesia to have his ears cropped (not my choice) and we were all heartbroken. Oscar was devastated, he cried and he moped around and the expression of his grief was so obvious it was as if he knew exactly what had happened and he blamed us for it.
I contacted the breeder that we had gotten Killer from and found that she still had one of his brothers so I bought the pup for my son. When we brought Boss home Oscar again adopted it as his own and to watch him teach the puppy things was amazing, they talked to each other by vocalizing and making sounds that were very human sounding.

My son met a girl that was to become the love of his life at about this time and was not paying a whole lot of attention to Boss so Boss decided that my husband was his person and still stays by his side 24 hours a day. Boss tries very hard to communicate with us verbally and when we don't understand he will take hold of us and show us what he wants.

My daughter and her boyfriend eventually worked out their issues and she went home and took Oscar with her and my son bought another Doberman pup named Duece who is now his constant companion. Oscar and Boss visit each other often and still act like father and son. All 3 of these dogs communicate on a much higher level than any other dogs I have ever seen with each other as well as with us.

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