{"id":861,"date":"2026-06-01T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/?p=861"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:27:00","slug":"dogs-can-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/dogs-can-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"Dogs can learn and remember how toys work"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_862\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-862\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/environment\/dogs-know-how-toys-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-862 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-9.54.12-AM-300x169.png\" alt=\"Dogs can learn\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-9.54.12-AM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-9.54.12-AM-1024x578.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-9.54.12-AM-768x434.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-9.54.12-AM-1536x868.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-23-at-9.54.12-AM-2048x1157.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elle Baumgartel Austin\/Popular Science<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>&#8220;We\u2019ve long known that dogs are pretty smart. They may \u201cpicture\u201d objects in their heads just like us, communicate with button boards, and can even understand fairly complicated words. They also appear to categorize objects by function, understanding how similar types of toys work, even if they don\u2019t look alike&#8230;.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/environment\/dogs-know-how-toys-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve long known that dogs are pretty smart. They may \u201cpicture\u201d objects in their heads just like us, communicate with button boards, and can even understand fairly complicated words. They also appear to categorize objects by function, understanding how similar types of toys work, even if they don\u2019t look alike&#8230;.\u201d More&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets","tag-cat-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}