112 The World's First Talking Dog! | Christina Hunger
Curiosityness
Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
I think every dog owner, myself included, has wanted their dog to talk at one time or another. Well buckle up because Christina has taught her dog to talk and you can too!
In this episode I'm joined by Christina Hunger who taught her dog, Stella, to communicate using over 50 simple paw-sized buttons programmed to say different words. It's kinda similar to the way Stephen Hawking used a device to communicate.
Tune in to learn…
-How to teach your dog to talk,
-How Christina took her knowledge as a speech-language pathologist and applied that to her dog,
-How long it took Stella to learn to talk,
-If Stella gets annoying and talks all day,
-How Christina & Stella's relationship has deepened by having the ability to communicate more clearly,
-& so much more!
Watch some videos of Stella talking & get tips for teaching your own dog to talk...
on Instagram @hunger4words,
on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hunger4words/,
on Youtube at hungerforwords,
and on their website at https://www.hungerforwords.com/
Grab your copy of Christina's book, How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog...
at https://www.hungerforwords.com/book/,
on Indiebound at https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780063046832,
or on Amazon at https://amzn.to/2XcPw7P (affiliate link).
Get the Talking Pet Starter Set...
at https://www.hungerforwords.com/shop/talking-pet-starter-set/,
or on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3ixtKDS (affiliate link).
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | A spontaneous and unrehearsed interview. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello, and welcome to the 112th episode of Curiosityness. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm Travis DeRose, and if you've ever wanted your dog to talk, this is the episode for you. |
| 0:20.2 | So I have on Christina Hunger. |
| 0:22.7 | She's the author of a book called How Stella Learned a Talk, |
| 0:25.9 | The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog. |
| 0:28.9 | Stella is her dog. |
| 0:30.3 | So that title sounds great. |
| 0:32.7 | I think before you even start this episode, just press pause and go check out hungerfor words.com |
| 0:40.1 | or click on some of these social media description or links in the description. |
| 0:45.1 | And just go check out Stella talking a bit. |
| 0:48.1 | It's pretty cool. |
| 0:50.3 | We talk about it. |
| 0:51.7 | So I'll let Christina tell about it when we get into the episode. |
| 0:54.8 | But I think it's fun just to kind of see their dog, Stella, talking a bit before we even start |
| 0:59.4 | this episode. |
| 1:00.8 | But this is super fun. |
| 1:02.9 | I think Christina has a really unique approach compared to, you know, people who have |
| 1:09.0 | kind of taught animals to speak in the past, whether it's, you know, |
| 1:12.0 | Coco the gorilla using sign language or whatever it is. Christina is a speech language pathologist. |
| 1:18.1 | That's her background. She's not, you know, an animal trainer or anything like that. So, |
| 1:22.7 | um, it's, it's unique. It's fun. So I think you're going to like this episode. I certainly really, really enjoyed talking to Christina about Stella and the whole process |
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