Lol :D
I’ve got a German Shepard, lab, chow mix (but it’s about 95% shepard in appearance), and I am utterly stunned by the intelligence of this dog.
It can clearly understand full sentences, questions, it counts with barks, and it attemps to speak. It’s the funniest thing. He rolls his tounge and make noises that I have never heard another dog make while looking me directly in the eye. He does this asking for his begging strips. If I had to guess what he was actually trying to say, it sound like, “I want”.
I have a German Shepard mix that is amazingly intelligent and seems to be able to follow simple conversations. My other dog a Boxer, Beagle mix is as dumb as a rock. The smart one is a one or two takes on a command and it learns it, the dumb one needs to go over and over a command. Like people dogs vary but some of them are vastly smarter then what is stated in the article. My point being that researchers don’t usually factor in for the variability of living things.
We had a dog that I swear was trying to speak. He’d sit down in front of me and go “Ao-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa. Aoo wow-whoa-whoa...” And my folks for a while had some weird Russian breed of hunting dog that was so smart, they had to spell in front of him. He knew “toys” “ice cream” “go to town,” and several other words.