Tag: Talking

Alexis Devine said that she knew early on that Bunny, her sheepadoodle puppy, was destined to talk.

A 40-year-old artist and jewelry designer in Tacoma, Wash., Ms. Devine had pored over literature on canine cognition, communication and training in the months leading up to Bunny’s arrival.

Through her research, she came across the Instagram page of a speech pathologist named Christina Hunger, who was documenting how her own dog, Stella, was beginning to develop an English vocabulary.

Stella had a