Previous experiments testing dogs’ understanding of nouns had involved them fetching specific objects when asked, according to a statement released by the Eötvös Loránd University.

Sometimes the dog did better than her handlers ... According to this video, Chaser also understands the basic concepts behind nouns and verbs, and can make appropriate matches between the ...

The dog was trained by John Pilley, who died last year, to understand more than a thousand nouns. A portion of a street in Spartanburg, S.C., will be named Chaser the Border Collie Boulevard.

taught his Border collie to understand more than 1,000 nouns, a feat that earned them both worldwide recognition. For some time, Dr. Pilley had been conducting his own experiment teaching dogs the ...

Oh, look! There’s some thing sleeping in the trees! Common nouns are the names of things, that’s people, places or objects, while a proper noun is the name of a particular person, place or thing.