Smartypants
The Washington Post this morning cut through their Reagan coverage to do a story on a German border collie named Rico who knows 200 words. He's so clever!

In the first experiment, the researchers put 10 of Rico's toys in one room and Rico and his owner in another. The investigators then instructed the owner to order Rico to fetch two randomly selected items. As Rico ran into the other room and began searching for the items, he could not have picked up any hints from his owner because the owner was out of sight.
In 40 tests, Rico got it right 37 times, demonstrating he had a vocabulary comparable to dolphins, apes, sea lions and parrots that have undergone extensive training.

I love the photo of Rico hanging out with big yellow Pikachu in his mouth.