Imagine Max, a well-trained border collie, manages to ignore a squirrel in the park when his owner tells him to sit. His ...

Dogs have a reputation for mastering commands like “sit” and “stay” with impressive speed, but remembering the names of specific objects often seems like a bigger challenge. Still, there is a small ...

Some uniquely talented dogs accumulate a vocabulary of hundreds of toy names. How do they do it? Young children acquire a large vocabulary because, in addition to quickly learning words, they also ...

A border collie labelled a "dog genius" because he can recognise and retrieve toys from hundreds of commands is helping a study that could help train talented puppies in the future. Harvey, who is ...