Some 'genius' dogs can learn the names of up to 12 new toys a week, new study finds.
The process of teaching the dogs words for new toys, Dror explained, was not a formal type of training, but based on the way owners typically play with their pets. The researchers noted that the owners spoke to their dogs with the same tone and vocabulary as parents use when speaking with their toddlers.
For the experiments, owners were given toys that the dogs had never seen. In the first experiment, which tested the dogs’ abilities to learn names of six toys in a week, the toys were scattered with a number of other novel playthings, and the dogs were told to fetch, by name, each of the toys they had become familiar with.In two more experiments, the dogs’ memories were tested at one month and then two months later.
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