Dogs can understand about a two hundred word human vocabulary while a cat only comprehends about fifty words.
"I'll teach my dog 100
words," says the boy in the children's story of the same name. But can
he really? Dog owners love to gush about canine intelligence. So it
would come as no surprise to them that research supports their beliefs
that dogs have a profound mental capacity. But how much of our language
do dogs really understand? It turns out that the language comprehension
of some dogs rivals that of apes and parrots, not to mention the average 3-year-old. [read more]
