Posted on 06/10/2008 6:20:36 AM PDT by fings
Bo (woof) In Commentary:
Some think this dog is amazing. Me, I’m not surprised.
(In case you missed this one, a Mission Viejo woman’s dog — a 9-year-old cockapoo known as Cookie Einstein — has become a celebrity of sorts for her apparent mathematical abilities, the O.C. Register’s Niyaz Pirani reported over the weekend.
She [Cookie] adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides and calculates square roots and simple algebra through barking. And Cookie can answer if the question’s asked in either English or Spanish.)
Bi-lingual and good in math…she must have scored well on her SATs.
Cookie won’t respond to anybody but Miller, and (con't w/video http://boknowsonline.com/2008/04/11/numbers-game/)
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Subtle visual cues from the owner/trainer?
That’s what I’m thinking, but I thought it was cute. Plus, Bo doesn’t take any clues, subtle or not.
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