[Mr. Jeeves]

It’s clear that “Don’t pee on the floor” is far too complex an instruction for them to follow. :)

[bk1000]

Some dogs heard “laurel”, others heard “yani”, but they all heard “cookie”.

[struggle]

They definitely understand “walk” and “treat”

[Bulwyf]

I’d ask my hound, but he’s been missing since yesterday.

[Georgia Girl 2]

My dog knows “do you want to get your sweater on”, “do you want to get a bath”, “go to Pop” “do you want to go out” and “go get in your bed”.

[eastforker]

Let’s turn it around. Can humans really know what dogs are saying to us when they use certain sounds to communicate? No one else may know what my dog is saying because they don’t speak the same language as he and I do.

[super7man]

We had a Newfie, and I’m still not convinced he knew his name. Sweet dog, dumb as a post.

[usconservative]

I call bunk on this article. But let's move beyond that. I'll say this: all my dogs have been far more emotionally intelligent than the overwhelmingly majority of people I've known in my life.

I'm not sure if that's more a sad statement about the people I've known, or a statement on how little "science" actually knows about dogs.

[circlecity]

I’ve read that dogs read your facial expression, voice tone and inflection as much or more in understanding you as they do the actual words you use.

[Dr. Sivana]

Get any dog lover started on how intelligent his friend is and he won’t shut up.

That's funny, the dog lovers I know like to tell stories about how their dog is as dumb as a box of rocks. They love their dogs anyway, but not for their brains.

[allendale]

Its all about are they likely to get something to eat after the human goes through his or her visual and sound gyrations.

[BigEdLB]

And they do a fine job as navigator when GPS isn’t working right.

My buddy, Rufus

[reegs]

[blam]

Opinion: We Didn’t Domesticate Dogs. They Domesticated Us.

[FroedrickVonFreepenstein]

[GreenHornet]

Cats, on the other hand, understand everything we say. They just choose to ignore it.

[Fresh Wind]

I watched a woman deal with a dog that was barking incessantly.

She looked at the dog and said “quiet, or you’re getting a bath!”

The dog didn’t make another sound.

[ASOC]

herd dogs (cattle dogs) have demonstrated a working vocabulary of up to 1800 words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hFMaRFyVSU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDQw21ntR64

[lurk]

The very same dog can be intelligent, stupid, intuitive, headstrong, dangerous and gentle.

If Siberian Huskies had thumbs they would rob banks and use the money to buy drinks for all at the tavern.

[klb99]

My Dobermans (on my 3rd) are scary smart....prolly genius. Seriously.