[lonevoice]

Have you ever considered your dog as an extra child?

Like that would ever happen!

Another factor that may contribute to dogs understanding human cues with "next to zero learning time," as Discovery News described it, is pet owners use of baby talk -- or "motherese" -- with both their children and dogs.

Baby-talking a dog? Now who would do something like that?!?

[Pride in the USA]

I think that how people treat their dogs says a lot about their true nature.