There's a few special words that will perk the ears of many a dog -- hungry, park, and of course T-R-E-A-T. But a choice group of gifted canines appear to have remarkable capacity for learning human ...

Source: SC Psychological Enterprises Ltd. I was recently attending an online conference focused on dog behavior and dog training. One of the speakers contended, "It has been shown that dogs can learn ...

I was at a conference for police dog handlers where I had just finished giving a talk on how to read the emotional state of dogs. The hotel in which the conference was being held had made itself ...

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If you've ever had to spell out words like W-A-L-K or T-R-E-A-T around a dog, you know that some dogs listen in to humans' chitchat and can pick out certain key words. Well, it turns out that some ...

Dear reader, recently the internet, and the nightly news couldn’t get enough of the dog who had learned sign language along with his mom. Apparently, after mom lost her hearing she and her husband ...

When it comes to cognitive ability, not all dogs are created equal. Most dogs can learn simple action cues like “sit” or “down.” But so-called “gifted word learner” (GWL) dogs exhibit a remarkable ...