Our two dogs, an American Eskimo and an English Setter, have to have the television on when we go to work. My Setter watches it intensively. Their vocabulary is so large that spelling no longer works. They know how everything is spelled. When my husband and I are talking to each other, they sit and stare, turning their heads like they are absorbing everything. And if we head toward the dining room, they beat us there because that means it's nap time. I swear sometimes that they're smarter than we are. They were also both easy to train, although they can be stubborn.