Why cant dogs talk (apart from scooby doo)?



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they do not have enough vocal cords.
small brains? undevelped vocal chords?
idk
they are DOGS
they have thier own way of talking.
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what do you mean? they CAN'T? omgosh! going to have to run outside and tell fido to quit talking to the neighbors cat then!
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licking their but numbs their tongues
because no animals can talk, no vocal cords, and if they could talk there IQ would be low enough they would sound worst then a mental kid trying to say the abc's
maybe because they weren't made to talk
Deputy Dog could talk too as could a number of cartoon dogs. When i was married the Pet Dog and i regularly talked.
Hmmmmm. I'll have to ask Huckleberry Hound that one!
they can but only doctor Doolittle can understand them and scooby doo gets payed for talking.
They do talk, its just that we don't understand their language;)
they have underdeveloped voice boxes, not enough vocal cords and an underdeveloped language centre in the brain to talk like humans do

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it depends on what you consider talk because dogs use sound to communicate with other dogs and animals and that in its self could be considered talking
scooby doo is fake and real dogs brains do not coprehend most stuff so they have there own language
omg you mean your dog doesnt talk to you? Time to buy him the talking collar you put it on your dog and when they bark this little box translates the dogs bark into english so we know what they are saying to us. They are quite pricey though around $100 from JC Penneys.
My dog just told me come down stairs please I am afraid of the dark and my puppies keep crawling all over the place and I cant keep track of them Help.
She told lucky the pups father dont you ever come near me again if it wasnt for you I wouldnt be in this situation and could be out running around the garden instead of lying in here with 4 pups hanging out of me.
Honestly thats what they both said. Buy the talking collar
But seriously they do sell this in some pet stores and jc penneys.
they don't dare
. . . can't really talk, you just think he can, could've made a fortune from the grapefruit knife . . .
Scooby doo is a cartoon character, and therefore does not represent the canine world on the real plane. But some dogs can utter sounds that may sound like words, for instance, "sausages" as seen on that's life with Esther Ransem in the 70's / 80's
My dog talks all the time. I asked him how sandpaper feels. He said "Rough" Then I asked him what was on top of a house. He said "Roof" I then asked him what was on the outside of a tree. He replied "Bark"

He talks all the time.
Not only do they have underdeveloped vocal apparatus, their mouth parts are insufficiently flexible to form complex sounds AND they lack the cerebral complexity to understand or create more than a few basic barking noises that to them are a language of small vocabulary.
compare the anatomy of a dog to yourself. They DO have vocal folds, that's why we can hear them bark. they are phonating, but they do not have a tongue that can articulate. On myspace I saw a cute video of a pug that could phonate "i love you" but he was mimicking the way his owner said "i love you" in a high pitched-melodic voice-- took that melody and phonated what 'sounds like' "I love you" you shoudl check it out if you have one

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