Some of them were able to imitate the human voice and one, when asked who Adolf Hitler was, is said to have replied ‘Mein Fuhrer’.
The forerunner of them all was Rolf, an Airedale terrier who ‘spoke’ through tapping his paw against a board, each letter of the alphabet being represented by a certain number of taps.
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