We never found out how Stan could talk
Like seriously they had a whole season to explain and they never did. It would be awesome if it turned out Stan used to be a bad adult who was turned into a dog by a drifter and had to do good deeds to become a person again, but he was hit by a car after the process and forgot. Then he was sent to shelters (as explained in episode one) and forgot about his previous life.
A nice tie in to eddie mcdowd, if you dont know what that is check this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnY_c9ntDlg[/]
Episode 2 Eddie McDowd
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