Science

Have not really made an effort to teach her things like toy names and yet she seems able to identify them by name. As she does with several other objects and actions.

The other day I noticed that she had been able to identify something without much effort on my part.

I wonder how much of what dogs understand depends on speech prosody, tone, volume changes, inflection, variety and flexibility in the various utterances that they used for the stimuli. Plus, how did they control for those or if they tried.

As far as breed, I don't think that would matter as much as whether or not a dog's hearing is intact and if their attention span's long enough to follow the commands. But I have not read the entire study.

Thanks for sharing this, GreatGazoo. ❤️