Many owners struggle to teach their dogs to sit, fetch or even bark on command, but John Pilley, professor emeritus of psychology at Wofford College, taught his border collie to understand more than 1 ...

Chaser has learned the names of more than 1,000 objects through training and repetition with Pilley, who is professor emeritus of psychology at Wofford. Chaser knows the difference between nouns and ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. - The experiment began with a racquetball thathas now been replacedmany times. "Chaser! This is Blue," said John Pilley, a retired Wofford College psychology professor. "Blue," ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) — Chaser the Border Collie, widely accepted as the world’s smartest dog, and her late trainer, Dr. John Pilley, are now commemorated in downtown Spartanburg with a statue in ...

Spartanburg's top dog stepped out to a national television audience Wednesday. Chaser, the 6-year-old female border collie who developed a vocabulary of more than a thousand words with the help of a ...

Chaser the Border Collie, dubbed the ‘World’s Smartest Dog,” died at 15. The Pilley family of Spartanburg, S.C., announced their dog Chaser’s passing on Facebook, describing her July 23 death as ...

Good morning. I'm Rachel Martin. He was thought to be the world's smartest dog. Chaser the border collie was trained by his owner, Dr. John Pilley, to understand more than a thousand nouns and basic ...

If you thought Rover or Sparky was smart, think again: Chaser just took him to school. A border collie named Chaser has learned the names of 1,022 individual items-- more than any other animal, even ...

“Chaser! This is Blue,” said John Pilley, a retired Wofford College psychology professor. “Blue,” Pilley repeated, and rolled the ball to his 2-month-old border collie. He said the name again as ...

The dog was trained by John Pilley, who died last year, to understand more than a thousand nouns. A portion of a street in Spartanburg, S.C., will be named Chaser the Border Collie Boulevard. Good ...