Thank you for posting this. It’s one of my favourite comics, ever. It shows the real relationship between livestock guardian and wolf so well, the LGD being not much different from the wolf, and both essentially speaking a similar “language”. The follow-up shows it even better but I won’t write a spoiler since you already linked it.

Sometimes I wonder if one of my two dogs might be such a gifted word learner. I constantly have to invent new words for „food“ and „walk“ to talk to housemates without the dog understanding (because he gets very excited whenever one of the two is mentioned, which is funny but also annoying because he howls when he is excited, and it takes him a few minutes to calm down again). Any new synonym only works exactly once.

The other of my dogs? That one needed months to learn „sit“ and „treat“… 😅