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By Monica Greep
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An adorable English Cocker Spaniel left hearts melting after his very excited reaction to hearing his owner saying all his favorite words.
The dog's owner, Verity Caie, from the United Kingdom, shared an amusing clip of herself using recognizable phrases in front of her dog during a pretend phone conversation on TikTok.
The footage, which has been viewed over 550,000 times and liked over 45,000 times, shows the dog howling at his favorite expressions while dramatically throwing his head back.
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The dog's owner can be heard saying in the clip: "We have nanny and grandad coming for dinner, then we're going to head to the beach and maybe go off to the woods and then go swimming."
The sweet footage racked up over 400 comments from users fawning over the pooch, with one hailing the animal: "Totally adorable."
"Aww this is the best doggy response, I used to have sprockers and they were hilariously clever," wrote one user.
Another said: "Haha aww the eyes at the beginning like "what's happening"? Bless."
A third wrote: "You better get nanny and grandad to come to dinner and then head to the beach and then go to the woods and then go swimming right now."
Many animals, including dogs, can produce sounds that mimic human language. According to Gary Lucas, a scholar in psychology at Indiana University Bloomington, dogs communicate by varying their tone.
He told Scientific American their ability to communicate using different tones means they are able to pick up on the differences in the tonal patterns of the humans around them.
Researchers at Emory University previously conducted studies using brain-imaging techniques to investigate how canines process words, finding dogs may have a rudimentary representation in their brains for the meaning of words.
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The results—which were published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience—indicate dogs are able to differentiate words they've heard before from those they haven't.
"Many dog owners think that their dogs know what some words mean, but there really isn't much scientific evidence to support that," Ashley Prichard, first author of the study from Emory's Department of Psychology, said in a statement. "We wanted to get data from the dogs themselves—not just owner reports."
"We know that dogs have the capacity to process at least some aspects of human language since they can learn to follow verbal commands," said neuroscientist Gregory Berns, senior author of the study.
"Previous research, however, suggests dogs may rely on many other cues to follow a verbal command, such as gaze, gestures and even emotional expressions from their owners."
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