A new study suggests that some dogs don’t need direct training to learn new words—they can pick them up simply by listening ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

"Under the right conditions, some dogs present behaviors strikingly similar to those of young children," lead scientist, Dr. Shany Dror, said Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE ...

It’s one thing for a dog to fetch a ball when told, but it’s another entirely when that same dog can hear “fetch” and bring back a brand-new toy they’ve never seen before just because it’s used the ...

Gifted word learner dogs seem capable of eavesdropping about as well as 18-month-old toddlers, the study researchers say. Reading time 4 minutes Dogs might have more tricks up their furry sleeves than ...

Spelling F-O-O-D or O-U-T might only get you so far around your dog if he or she is considered a Gifted Word Learner (GWL). Researchers have just figured out that even when you're not talking to them ...

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 ...

Everybody knows that dogs can learn to associate specific spoken words with objects that look a certain way. A groundbreaking new study, however, shows that some gifted dogs can also match given ...

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 ...