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I've been lying to my cat (infosec.pub)

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[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 2 points 4 weeks ago

There's research. Theres a link to a 2022 paper in this article.

https://www.petmd.com/dog/general-health/how-many-words-does-a-dog-know

One more

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scotttravers/2024/03/29/dogs-understand-our-words-more-than-they-let-on-science-reveals/

There's also a whole mess of people who have taught dogs and cats to use buttons that say a word to have 2-way communication. So the dog will go press the button that says "outside" when they want to go out. Some get an active vocabulary of dozens of words.

What I love from these people is that dogs say exactly like what you think dogs would say. Outside, food, hi!, love, play and the like. Cats get bitchy. There's a few instances where multiple cats will have a button for "litter box" or similar. When you tell the cat something it didn't like, it goes over and presses "litterbox" as a kind of F you.