Why doesn't twilight understand dogs can't talk? In equestria they can't either.

[Never2muchpinkie 208]

When you think about it logically, in ponyville the only dog we see, or at least that I remember seeing, is Wynona. Wynona barks like a dog should. So why is she so surprised that the dog hierarchy and their inability to talk hasn't changed in the human world?  Sure Spike can still talk, but he's not actually a dog. He's a dragon and already had the ability of speech. The mirror just gave him a form that would fit in more with that world, just like how Twilight became a human and lost her unicorn horn and wings.

[VictimoNightmareMoon 38]

The movie has spoilers- like [Fu the Dog] which has the ability to talk & in equestria/ the (Diamond Dog's) can talk and push minecarts+ put Rarity in a wagon pulling gear

[~StatesTheOblivious~ 1,794]

Actually, I've never seen that dog-pony "hierarchy" in Equestria worked the same as dog-human "hierarchy".

 

In every scene Winona appears, she's never kept on a leash and her interactions with Applejack for example seem to be much more eye-leveled. The same is for most interactions between ponies and animals and the behavior of the animals. Fluttershy and her animals for example. How Equestrian animals act seems to be pretty different from how human-world animals act.

 

That's why Twilight was so surprised. And the fact that she didn't know anything about that place before. From what she knew after she was transformed, talking dogs could have been possible in that world, until she was proven otherwise.

[Scootalove 10,684]

Twilight probably doesn't understand dogs just like how Twilight knew that ponies know little to nothing about dragons. Animals in general act differently in Equestria's universe than our universe. I could be wrong, though.

[RockinRarity 1,605]

I think that she wasn't used to the fact that he was a dog. She probably forgot that he changed too. The change wasn't as drastic so it didn't occur to her immediately that he shouldn't talk in their world.

[Singe 2,109]

Given that Equestria has magic. It's not impossible for Twilight to use some spell to allow Wynona to talk in English. A lot of things she doesn't understand is that it's a whole other world where magic is absent.

[~Silver Essence~ 2,621]

Well, spike was an exception towards her in EG.

 

But other of that, I guess it is kind of odd to see that she can't talk to others besides spike, my theory is that it was destined to be that way, it's all I got. 

[ErBoi 498]

Well, the only time it really comes up in the movie is when Fluttershy asks about knowing what he's thinking and Twilight says he usually tells her; from that, I assume it's more Twilight just giving the immediate answer that came to mind and forgetting briefly that he had become a dog.

[ChoroChii 284]

I just don't understand the difference between pets and 'people' in the Pony universe in general. Winonna is apparently a pet but the Diamond Dogs are 'people' but they're both dogs and everybody is an animal. 

[GrimCW 658]

When it comes Winona vs the diamond dogs.

the diamond dogs have more of a goblin sort of thing that had a very dog like appearance.

Where as Winona was a straight up domestic dog. Chances are that Winona is the more a-typical dog in this situation where the diamond dogs are more of another fantasy creature of sorts like most else in Equestria.

 

Well, the only time it really comes up in the movie is when Fluttershy asks about knowing what he's thinking and Twilight says he usually tells her; from that, I assume it's more Twilight just giving the immediate answer that came to mind and forgetting briefly that he had become a dog.

 

I was thinking this too.

Twilight usually doesn't see Spike as a dog, so it probably hadn't fully clicked in her mind yet that he was one. Especially on a snap response such as was made.

[Virulence 254]

That is so true. She needs to think about these things. I never really thought in depth about that. Winona doesn't talk to twilight at all. Maybe they do in secret..