my dog skid

Skid (a mini-dachshund) understood every word I said (that rascal) (this isn't his photo)

...The study found that dogs recognized each word independently from one another, and responded differently to them according to the way in which the trainers said the word.

“Humans seem to be the only species which uses words and intonation for communicating emotions, feelings, inner states,” Andics told NPR. “To find that dogs have a very similar neural mechanism to tell apart meaningful words from meaningless sound sequences is, I think, really amazing.”
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[Skid and I had the exact same birthday too - TODAY!)