Hacker News with Generative AI: Dogs

Think your dog can understand words? This scientist says you might be right (cbc.ca)
The internet is filled with videos of dogs using soundboards to communicate with their humans — but have they just been trained on which buttons to push? A new study suggests dogs can understand the meaning behind specific words and respond appropriately.
Dog domestication happened many times, but most didn't pan out (arstechnica.com)
Between 8,000 and 12,000 years ago, people in Alaska kept reinventing dogs with mixed results.
Polynesian Dog (wikipedia.org)
The Polynesian Dog refers to a few extinct varieties of domesticated dogs from the islands of Polynesia.
I wag, therefore I am: the philosophy of dogs (theguardian.com)