Dogs can tell how toys work without any training

ScienceDaily
Sep 23, 2025, 11:20 pm119 ptsTrending
Gifted dogs can categorize toys by function, not just appearance. In playful at-home tests, they linked labels like “fetch” and “pull” to toys—even ones they’d never seen before. The findings hint that dogs form mental concepts of objects, much like humans, pointing to deeper cognitive abilities.

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