Dogs Can't Tell Slight Differences in Words, Probably Don't Understand Everything You Say: Study
A new study has found that dogs probably don’t actuallyunderstandexactlywhat their ownersare saying to them all the time. Researchers at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest shared in their findings, published Wednesday in theRoyal Society Open Sciencejournal, that dogs don’t grasp subtleties in speech the way humans do. The dogs listenedto a collection of words, including ones they already knew (e.g., “sit”), similar-sounding nonsense words with one differing speech sound (like “sut”) and completely different nonsense words (e....