Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As if we needed another reason to be amazed by our canine companions, a new ability has been revealed. Researchers have discovered ...

A 6-year-old Border Collie named Miso, living in Canada, can distinguish the names of over 200 toys. After hearing the names of toys like “corrugated cardboard bear” or “squid” from its owner, Miso ...

An international research team reports that a subset of dogs can learn new object names by overhearing owners’ conversations, a finding relevant to animal cognition. Led by Eötvös Loránd University ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Dogs are great at learning action commands like “sit” and “stay.” They're less good at remembering the names of things, like what their squeaky or stuffed toys are called. Only an ...

Some dogs aren’t just good boys and girls — they’re geniuses. Certain pups can do more than recognize the names of their favorite chew toys — they can actually group their playthings by function, like ...