Like humans, dogs have the capacity to link words to mental images or ideas in their minds, researchers have recently found. Researchers in Hungary and Norway made the discovery while researching ...

A new study publishing in Current Biology on September 18 reveals that dogs with a vocabulary of toy names—known as Gifted Word Learners—can extend learned labels to entirely new objects, not because ...

Needle, a cheerful miniature schnauzer I had as a kid, turned into a ball of unspeakable noise and fury each time she saw a dog called Puma. She hated Puma so much she would go ballistic, barking and ...