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

If you have to spell out 'W-A-L-K' to keep your dog from bouncing off the walls, scientists say you are not alone. New research shows that some brainy pooches can learn new words just by eavesdropping ...

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 ...