Dogs can have wildly different personalities, which often vary by breed and size. Although individual temperament matters ...

Typical family dogs can understand action words such as ‘sit’, but not words that describe objects. Shany Dror at the ...

This is not comparable to word learning in children. By around age two, typical English-speaking children learn approximately ten new words each day, reaching an average vocabulary of about 60,000 ...

Brandy Dowdy was convicted in November of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide after a pack of her dogs mauled two ...

Dogs are great at learning action commands like "sit" and "stay." They're less good at remembering the names of things, like ...

In Shany Dror's study, super-smart canines had 90% accuracy in fetching toys whose names they learned directly or overheard; ...

Some dogs can learn new object names by overhearing human conversation, highlighting advanced learning skills also seen in ...

Think your dog tunes you out? Canine behaviorist Sarah Rutten, from Australia, told Newsweek that the opposite is true.

Dog experts have revealed the top five reasons why your pooch might show off its belly, after one owner shared concerns about ...

Some gifted canines pick up words simply by overhearing people speak to each other without needing to be taught ...