Dogs build their vocabularies like toddlers
Basket the border collie seems to have a way with words. The 7-year-old dog, who resides on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, knows the names of at least 150 toys—”froggy,” “crayon box” and “Pop-Tart,” among them—and can retrieve them on command. Basket built her vocabulary thanks to the dedicated efforts of one of her […]
