Well, that confirms a long held opinion. Dogs are smarter than 0bama voters.
I once had a dog that would open the refrigerator door looking for good stuff to eat.
It would have been a lot funnier if it hadn’t been my dog and refrigerator.
At least a 2 yr old wont hump your leg.
4th is golden retrievers, 5th is dobermans? I have a good friend who has a nice golden, but it is not even close to the intelligence of my dobermans.
In other news, water is wet :-) Any dog owner can tell you this. And cats aren’t so dumb either.
The male was a Randy bugger who could spell estrus from at least 5 km and would plan is jailbreak and be out the door and disappeared in warp time. Both dogs were lightning fast as would be required by sheepherders. So when the male took off on amorous adventure there was no hope of catching him but the next morning he always came back looking like Sylvester the cat after a bad night.
First of all, I think this is hogwash. Canine intelligence varies tremendously. And I mean all canines, not just domestic dogs. And this variable intelligence is also different kinds of intelligence.
Wolves, for example, have perhaps the highest natural raw intelligence. They have a strict hierarchy within a pack, and perform coordinated team activities while hunting. And these skills have been specialized beyond wolves in some domestic dogs, by whistle command.
Coyotes, on the other hand, have a specialized form of intelligence that makes them expert tacticians. They plan and execute individual and group schemes, that include deception, cunning, treachery and “theft”.
Two important differences between humans and canines are first, that humans have an almost unique sinus cavity, that normalizes the pressure on the eyeballs while breathing. Typically when mammals breathe, for a brief moment during inhalation and exhalation, their vision turns blurry. This may be the reason that humans strongly prefer vision over their other senses.
This also means that when considering intelligence, we have to evaluate canine intelligence with respect to their emphasized senses, downplaying visual acuity somewhat.
The other major difference is that humans have a uniquely mutated form of a gene that is shared with some other animals. This gene is now believed to be responsible for our ability to speak with a complex dialogue.
Which leaves us with the tantalizing question, if dogs had this gene mutation, while it is unlikely that they could speak like humans, they might be able to develop the neural patterns to have greater speech understanding. Right now, it is estimated that canines might be able to learn 300 words.
Imagine if they could learn 3000 words.
My dogs think they are smarter then I am, and they may be right.
