A birthday gift became one of the most remarkable experiments in animal cognition. Chaser, a Border Collie from Spartanburg, ...

For generations, dog owners have joked that their pets listen in on conversations and seem to understand what people are ...

People often think play is a simple way to burn off a dog’s extra energy. A quick game of fetch in the yard or tug-of-war in ...

Dogs don’t express love with words, but through consistent behaviors and emotional patterns that reveal how deeply they bond with their humans. Many of these signs are subtle and easily overlooked, ...

If you think that your dog knows what you’re saying when you tell him to fetch his favorite stuffy, you may be right. A study by researchers with the Family Dog Project in conjunction with the Eötvös ...

How Dogs Think includes numerous up-to-date accounts of the cognitive and emotional lives of dogs, some of which I'll highlight below. Two important points to mention right off are: (1) There is no ...

Dogs inspire an enormous amount of curiosity about how they interpret the world, and their vision remains one of the most misunderstood areas of canine science. The common belief that dogs see only in ...

People seem to spend a lot of time and care when they are choosing a name for their dog [see here for more]. Much in the same way that some people choose names for their children, people tend to ...

You may believe that toddlers in your family are budding young geniuses. But according to canine expert Stanley Coren from the University of British Columbia, two-year-old kids are in fact no smarter ...

To be classified as a Gifted Word Learner, a dog must master a large and complex vocabulary of object names without formal training or explicit instruction. These dogs replicate a developmental ...