Gifted dogs can categorize toys by function, not just appearance. In playful at-home tests, they linked labels like “fetch” ...

Human infants naturally learn new words and their associations, such as how spoons are related to plates because they are ...

How smart are dogs? Those of us who are dog owners likely think that our pets are pretty darn smart. One problem, however, is ...

"So now it turns out that these dogs can do the same.” Fugazza and her Hungarian colleagues have been studying canine behavior and cognition for several years. For instance, in 2023, we reported on ...

Any doting dog parent wants to be their dog's favorite person. After all, you love your dog, spoil them with toys, food and ...

A new study shows that gifted word learner dogs extend verbal labels to new objects based on functional similarity and form ...

According to Alison Gerken, a board-certified veterinary behaviorist at the SPCA in San Francisco, California, there are numerous factors that cause your dog to get so excited, and it involves ...

A dog chasing after things in public, even when its owner is telling it not to, is a sign that the dog is not well-trained.

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Some of the most common causes of blindness in dogs are glaucoma, cataracts, injury, diabetes, infection, and chronic dry eye ...

Dogs that easily learn the names of toys might also mentally sort them by function, a new example of complex cognitive activity in the canine brain.

A new study demonstrates that some highly gifted dogs can categorize objects not just by appearance, but by how they are used ...