Chaser : unlocking the genius of the dog who knows a thousand words / John W. Pilley with Hilary Hinzmann.

Includes index.

The Dog who knows a thousand words -- Goodbye -- Christmas in June -- Let the puppy be a puppy -- "You've got To name her Chaser!" -- Chaser learns what not to chase -- Listening to the farmer -- Learning by playing -- Herding words -- Herding sheep -- Advanced lessons -- Getting published -- Going viral -- Chaser takes a bow -- Chaser goes to Washington -- Expanding the conversation -- Epilogue: Unleashing Chaser's Genius -- Appendix: Chaser's Toys.

"Chaser has a way with words. She knows over a thousand of them--more than any other animal of any species except humans. In addition to common nouns like house, ball, and tree, she has memorized the names of more than one thousand toys and can retrieve any of them on command. Based on that learning, she and her owner and trainer, retired psychologist John Pilley, have moved on to further impressive feats, demonstrating her ability to understand sentences with multiple elements of grammar and to learn new behaviors by imitation..."--www.Amazon.com.