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   Fesshole 🧻 (fesshole@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 01:34:59 JST Fesshole 🧻

   8 y/o daughter lost her hearing. Had to learn to sign. Struggled at first as none of her friends knew how to talk to her. One day I noticed our Labrador run to the treat cupboard after she signed "treat?" to her. In the absence of friends our dog had learned sign language for her

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     Anarchic Teapot 🌹⚧️ (anarchic_teapot@lingo.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 15:56:08 JST Anarchic Teapot 🌹⚧️

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     • Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

     @christineburns @fesshole Orang utans, chimps, gorillas can all learn our signs (and we can learn theirs)... but so can cats and dogs. One of the funniest videos I ever saw was a cat signing "Give me what you're eating" at its owner.

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     Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 15:56:09 JST Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

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     @fesshole I seem to remember there was a scientist who taught an Orangutan quite an extensive sign language repertoire so they could talk to each other