# Dogs, and their wonderful vocabulary

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**Created:** [November 2, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dogs-and-their-wonderful-vocabulary/559167 "2010-11-02T03:10:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dogs-and-their-wonderful-vocabulary/559167/21 "2010-11-04T01:28:08Z")

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I don’t own a dog, but this story really impressed me.

> [@My dog is the smartest dog ever!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-is-the-smartest-dog-ever/193024/17):
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> Flash, the World’s Best Dog ™ can be _scarily_ intelligent. A few years ago, I told him to go find his ball. He looked all over the room (excited 'cause he knew we were going to play fetch), but couldn’t find it.
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> I said, “Well, don’t look at me. Maybe you left it in the computer room?”
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> He jumped up and shot into the computer room, and came out a few seconds later, ball in mouth.
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> The thing is, _I never trained him to know that the first bedroom is the computer room!_

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