But while they might not understand the words you're saying, Bradshaw added, dogs are very good at learning to respond to their owner's tone of voice in specific ways."It's almost true that the dog is responding to every word they say," Bradshaw said.published in the journal Scientific Reports in 2021 found that dogs can understand the difference between humans' accidental and deliberate actions — or, in other words, when we screw up.
In the study, dogs waited much longer to retrieve the treat when the researcher purposefully withheld it than when the researcher dropped it or couldn't get it through the glass partition. That finding suggests dogs can distinguish between humans' intentional actions and unintentional ones. in an email."Many of the tasks that they perform for us, now and in the past , are facilitated by their ability to understand our cues."Madoka Nakamurapublished in Current Biology in August, researchers recruited 22 dogs and their owners. First, researchers measured tear volume in dogs' eyes during a normal interaction with their owners, as a baseline.