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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you found yourself talking to your pets? And not in a high-pitched voice, but as if they were a human roommate or something?

Scroll social media for five minutes and you’ll find a thousand versions of the same claim: dogs who “talk back,” sit like humans, shadow their owners from room to room, and seem more interested in ...

If you find yourself chatting with your dog as though they completely understand every word, you're not alone, and according to psychologists, it may reveal something special about your personality.