Chaser, a border collie from South Carolina who knows the names of 1,022 toys! (Oh really? mickey knows the names of his 1,023 toys!) Fine.. Chaser is pretty incredible & smarter than my dog.
6-year-old Chaser spent 3 years working with her psychologist owner John Pilley and Professor Allison Reid to see how many words she could learn. Chaser not only knows words, but also organizes them according to function and shape. (Smart doggie!)
They are still teaching Chaser more words and tests her regularly on the ones she knows.
Dr. Pilley put it like this: "We wanted to see if there was a limit to the number of words a dog could understand, and if they could understand the name of an object rather than just respond to a command related to an object, such as fetch. We’re not saying this means dogs can learn language in the same way children do, but it does show they are capable of learning many more words than might have been thought."
Here's Chaser at work:
via The Daily Mail
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