Imagine your dog telling you, "I want to play," or "I'm hungry," not through barks or body language, but by pressing a button that vocalizes these words. This scenario, once the realm of fantasy, is ...

Wouldn't it be fun if your dog could communicate with you using words? As a pet parent, it would be great to know what your dog was thinking so you can ensure they're happy and emotionally healthy.

Dogs may not speak our language, but they’re always communicating with us in their own canine way through different behaviors. From the way they hold their bodies to the position of their ears and ...

In the animated movie Up, a boisterous dog wears an electronic collar that translates his doggy thoughts into English words. ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Our dogs communicate with us all the time, not just with vocalization, but through canine body language like ...

Pet owners know that some dogs are more apt to listen to speech and pick up commands more quickly than others. A team of researchers says there is a small subset of dogs that can learn language by ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Training dogs requires patience, consistency and using gestures or verbal commands, which canines understand through ...

Anna Gabor and colleagues at the Hungarian Academy of Science recently published functional MRI (fMRI) studies of dog’s brains, showing that canines process human language pretty much the same way we ...