Talking with your dog may not be so far-fetched. New research has revealed that man’s best friend can actually comprehend human words like “play” and “outside” when communicated through a soundboard ...

Researcher Jack Terwilliger looks at a video feed in his lab — a cozy room with a couple of tables and computers. He’s not just watching animal videos for amusement but examining a unique method to ...

Everybody knows that dogs can learn to associate specific spoken words with objects that look a certain way. A groundbreaking ...

Dog owners are constantly communicating with their pets. We spend a lot of time sharing affection, giving commands, scolding, or petting their adorable faces. Bray says we often pigeonhole ...

We’ve all had that moment where we’re mid-conversation and suddenly our dog perks up at a single word, and it's usually one of the buzz words like “walk,” “treat,” or “ball.” But according to new ...

There’s no doubt that the relationship between humans and dogs is special. But does your best pupper understand everything you tell them? I asked my friend Cassidy Cordon. She’s a veterinarian at ...

New research suggests some dogs might have a surprisingly nuanced understanding of the essence of that toy—and what it might ...

For the study, owners of 10 talented dogs —mostly border collies—taught them words for two categories: tug toys, called pulls ...

A new study shows that gifted word learner dogs extend verbal labels to new objects based on functional similarity and form ...

A study published in Current Biology by the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University reveals that dogs with a vocabulary of toy names—known as Gifted Word Learners—can extend learned labels ...