[LunarBerry]

I'm am so terribly sorry for your loss ; ; Things like this makes me worry my little yorkie baby would get injured or snatch by other animals. Right now it's rare for her to go outside, but I know eventually I'll need to get her out more.
As for the non believer of talking dogs, there' actually a document called the science of dogs and it discusses not only the evolution of dogs but the way dogs have evolved to communicate and understand us and it's amazing! They did a comparison by raising wolves like domestic dogs and put them in situations to see certain reactions. Like one was a meat in a cage, a wolf would never look to the human for assistance and keep trying to get at it. Most domestic dogs will look at it, examine it some, maybe tap/claw at the cage but then realize there's no way to get that treat without help and it will go to the human and give them the look.
They also did a "eye" camera that follows their eye movement and shown them pictures of human faces and dogs faces. They found that all the dogs they tested scans a humans face like another human would when reading expressions. When a dog's face came on the screen, they wouldn't do that. Also compared to a wolf's vocal "vocabulary", a domestic dog has been found to have a good bit more vocalizations than wolves. they talked about how scientist didn't take dog owner's seriously when they said they could understand them. So they tested that. they did various recordings of barks and whines from dogs in different scenarios and situations. All the people they played the sounds to got the dog's situation pretty close and accurate and were able to say what's going on from the dog's bark. Like being left behind, or that there's an intruder or stranger coming up to them, etc. Also you can look up on youtube, there's a dog that understands 1000 words and has been able to determine a new item based on the elimination process about items he was familiar with. So yea, anyone that says dogs don't understand and can't talk, needs to do their research or learn to understand dogs :P