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Here is a nicely done PBS documentary on the ability of dogs to communicate.
There are several different approaches to possible dog communication, but its mostly focused on dogs pushing talk buttons. These are mostly on home button boards that make speech sounds when the dog pushes it (like "outside"). Since they become popular, many are using boards that can be linked up to a data collection site. They have thousands of dogs and millions of button pushes.
There are also several anecdotes indicative of understanding of the words that were button pushed.
Dogs are probably the animal most closely associated with people for the longest time (40,000 years?). Probably followed by cats. Among the domesticated animals, horses probably have the longest and most intense history of interactions (since horse riding) vs. goats, sheep, etc.).
There are several different approaches to possible dog communication, but its mostly focused on dogs pushing talk buttons. These are mostly on home button boards that make speech sounds when the dog pushes it (like "outside"). Since they become popular, many are using boards that can be linked up to a data collection site. They have thousands of dogs and millions of button pushes.
There are also several anecdotes indicative of understanding of the words that were button pushed.
Dogs are probably the animal most closely associated with people for the longest time (40,000 years?). Probably followed by cats. Among the domesticated animals, horses probably have the longest and most intense history of interactions (since horse riding) vs. goats, sheep, etc.).