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Chaser

John W. Pilley

2013288 pagesabout 4–7 hours
2013
first published
  • 2013Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · ENGISBN 9781299987029
  • 2013Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780544102439
  • 2014Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780544334595
  • 2014Oneworld Publications · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9781780747033
  • 2014463 pages · ENGISBN 9781410464262

Chaser has a way with words. She knows over a thousand of them -- more than any other animal of any species except humans. And she and her owner/trainer, retired psychologist John Pilley, have now demonstrated her ability to understand sentences with multiple elements of grammar and to learn new behaviors by imitation. John's work with Chaser offers a fresh perspective on what's possible in the relationship between a dog and a human. Chaser knows over a thousand words, more than any other animal of any species except humans. She and her owner and trainer, retired psychologist John Pilley, have also demonstrated her ability to understand sentences with multiple elements of grammar.

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