[supern0va]

>There is just no way to go past what we have already observed by their behavior since dogs can't talk or write.

There are many dogs that have been trained to press buttons corresponding to words, in the extreme case tens/hundreds of buttons/words, and they can even construct rudimentary sentences. It doesn't seem insane to me that we could perhaps do a very rudimentary version of this for dogs, given a large enough training set.

[gloyoyo]

Some important ones like, "earthquake", "Seizure", etc...

Might be of use.

[yieldcrv]

but that's imposing our language on them, when we should be understanding them

there's a movie about that default human hubris, it spoils it though

[ksd482]

That's a great point.

The "vocabulary resolution being low" basically just means within our own limited context, it's low. But that doesn't mean it's a good measure. Heck, I'd say it isn't.