Dogs Found to Remember Toy Names Years After They've Last Seen Them
Dogs Found to Remember Toy Names Years After They've Last Seen Them September 11, 2024 Michelle Milliken Pixabay / Myriams-Fotos Our pet dogs seem to be good at knowing that it’s time to run over when we say “treat”, but that’s a word they hear – hopefully, from their vantage point – every day. How is their longer-term memory for certain names, though? A new study finds it could persist for years, even if they haven’t heard it in a while. Research recently published in the journal Biology Letters investigated how well dogs were able to recall the names of toys they hadn’t seen in two years. These weren’t just any old pet dogs, though. They were gifted word learners, which are dogs that have demonstrated a vocabulary of object labels, or, essentially, they have shown the ability to quickly learn the names of things. Photo: Pixabay / Thomas The five dogs in this study – all gifted word learner border collies – had learned the names of 12 toys within a week in Dece...
