Chaser: Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Wordsby John W. Pilley
Pretty fascinating stuff, here. Man sets out to see how many words he can teach his Border Collie puppy, and basically finds there isn't any answer to that question. Most interesting to me was that he could teach the dog "take the ball to Pop-Pop" but only if he reversed subject and object in the sentence, as they do in some languages other than English: "take, to Pop-Pop, the ball."
I was less than thrilled about two-thirds through when the chapters started to focus on where they exhibited Chaser and what he did and how people reacted to him. That was kinda boring. But hey, don't blame the dog!
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