The smartest dog in the country: Harvey the border collie knows more than 200 words

16 January 2025, 11:31 | Finance and Banking 
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Six-year-old Border Collie Harvey has been named " He has learned the names of 203 of his toys and can bring them all to his owner Irene Hewlett. The Daily Star writes about this.

Scientists at Eotvos Lorand University in Hungary, studying gifted dogs who remember the names of toys, have named this six-year-old dog one of the smartest dogs in the world..

Harvey's owner said her pet can find all his toys in two hours if she reads them to him, including llama, asparagus and little mermaid..

He will go into the room where each of them is located and bring them to the owner. And Harvey "

After Irene and her lawyer husband Neil bought Harvey, she decided to teach him the names of toys after hearing about a border collie named Chaser in the US who learned the names of 1,022 objects in three years..

“He understood that when I say the name of a toy, he must remember it and be able to bring it,” says the owner of the smartest dog.

Harvey also knows how to put away his toys by putting them in a box or bag.

" I can't remember the names of all the toys without looking at my spreadsheet, but Harvey remembers them. He is an absolutely brilliant dog,” says owner Harvey.

She said she's always looking for new dog toys to add to Harvey's list of favorite toys.

“We probably have all the toy vegetables, including toy squash, asparagus and cauliflower,” she said.

Harvey is among a number of British dogs who have taken part in various research projects into dogs with large vocabularies run by Eotvos Lorand University.

A six-year worldwide campaign by researchers to find dogs "

Let us remind you that Focus previously wrote about the dog breeds that are best trained.

По материалам: dailystar.co.uk