Dawgg

Sometimes I wonder if my dog knows what I'm saying when I talk to him. I mean if he's able to sit when I tell him to, who knows if he just recognizes the sound and is eager for a treat or if he really knows what to do. It's probably just the inflection of my voice because I can talk to him and tell him how ugly and dumb he is, but if I sound nice, he gets excited anyway. So I wonder what dogs are really thinking when you talk to them. Just because you don't have a language to communicate, doesn't mean you don't have thoughts, right? I can tell him to go get his ball and he runs and gets it, so maybe he's thinking, "Ooo I get to play!" He really does have some "human" like emotions though. If our other dog does something wrong (she likes chewing things up) he will run and hide until someone finds out. He will sit and cry forever because I think he knows she did something wrong and he doesn't want to get in trouble. He knows something's wrong and it's not anything like a word someone has taught him, so it must be his own thought, right? So my thought is, what are dogs really thinking? Will we ever know?