@Humpleupagus @Senator_Armstrong This is sophistry. Dogs don't need to know what 'stick' is. They just know when you throw that object (because objects exist, language or no), he gets to run after it. We also know that object because we can see it, touch it, hold it, etc. We know it's a stick, because we've picked up that that's what others call it. To communicate to other humans that this is a stick, we use the agreed-upon sounds to reference the stick.

There are shared experiences. Every human being knows what a 'stick' is even if they've heard it called a stick, 棒, palo, lazda, ਸਟਿੱਕ, палка or sopa.

Also, get the kind of nigger I am right. It's "Sanchez" if you want to imply my arguments are bad because of a racial handicap.