Dog owners may be inadvertently teaching their pets new words. Eavesdropping “genius dogs” are able to learn names for objects by overhearing their owners, according to groundbreaking new research ...

Seven–year–old Border Collie Harvey has been accepted into several studies for genius pooches after being able to fetch any of his toys by their name on command. Owner Irene Hewlett, 52, started by ...

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 ...

Long recognized as a skill used by toddlers who are learning to understand language, scientists have discovered that a rare subset of “genius dogs” has also mastered the art of eavesdropping to decode ...