To get Keppy to Brazil, we had him certified as a service animal which was expensive but effective. If you say sit - he sits, if you say off - he offs and if Carol's feet get cold he warms them with his belly. We taught him a lot in the year before we left, but we didn't teach him Portuguese. In retrospect, we should have. When someone says xo xo he doesn't go and when they say fora he doesn't get. This has caused some problems for us and it hasn't been great for him either. Little kids want to throw his frisbree but they can't make him drop it and because of the accent, he doesn't recognize his own name. No one can get him to sente-se, abaixe-se, or venha at all and people think he isn't very bright. None of this is helping him make friends or us find dogsitters. So, we are currently taking our dog with us to The Language Club and working to make a bilingual vira-lata out of him.
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