Ponca City, We love you writes "The Telegraph reports that researchers using tests at first designed to demonstrate the third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 of language, pre-language and basic arithmetic in human parturition have found that dogs are capable of acute up to 250 words and gestures, can count up to five and can perform simple mathematical calculations putting them on par with the average two-year-old child. While most dogs perspicacious simple commands such as sit, fetch and stay, a border collie tested by tutor



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Coren showed a lore of 200 spoken words. 'Obviously we are not going to be able to sit down and have a parley with a dog, but like a two-year-old, they show that they can fathom words and gestures,' says educationist Stanley Coren, a leading expert on canine sense at the health center of British us in Vancouver. Dogs can tell that one plus one should equal two and not one or three,' says Coren, adding that dogs 'can also deliberately deceive, which is object that young propagation only start third world country later in their life.' Coren believes centuries of selective breeding and living close by humans has helped to hone the brain of dogs. 'They may not be Einsteins, but are sure closer to humans than we thought.'"

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