For almost 15 years, a retired psychology professor worked with his Border Collie Chaser for four to five hours a day — and by the time he stopped adding new toys because his house had run out of room, Chaser could correctly identify 1,022 different toys by their individual names

In June 2004, in the specific suburb of Spartanburg, South Carolina where the 76-year-old retired psychology professor emeritus John W. Pilley had lived with his wife Sally across the substantial majority of his 40-year academic career at Wofford College, Sally Pilley presented her husband with an eight-week-old Border Collie puppy as his 76th birthday present. [...] The post For almost 15 years, a retired psychology professor worked with his Border Collie Chaser for four to five hours a day — a