Clever Hans the horse could do that over 100 years ago.
Is the owner subtilely giving her a clue as to when to stop tapping?
Meaningless. Any dog can use ROTE MEMORIZATION for simple math facts.
...come to think of it, why is it our “Education Experts” all agree that kids cannot do the same?
(hint, I know the answer...but I’ll let others try first)
The bartenders quickly grew tired of them, and threw them out of the bar.
As they walked away, the dog turns to his master and says, "what did you expect me to say, Joe DiMaggio?"
Our dog, a Rotten Shepherd, showed her mettle on Thanksgiving. Due to a miscommunication between my wife and me, the front door was left open. My wife had to go back to the house about 90 minutes later, and the dog was standing in the gap left by the open door.
I don't care if she can't do math, she's plenty smart enough for me.
“If you think your dog can’t county, let it see you take three treats out of the package and put them in your pocket, and then give it only two of them.” (Anonymous)
He barked out, “E=mc2”.
My father used to do this trick with my our dog who would bark the answers.
He would give her a dog treat when she reached the correct answer.
Addition, subtraction and even square roots resulting in single digit answers, I can remember during a visit that my uncle watched in amazement as she barked out the answer to the square root of nine.
My Dad then revealed the trick after letting my uncle gush in amazement, we all had a great laugh afterwards leaving a pretty great memory.
Ruff!
Dog, describe sandpaper.
Ruff!
Skidboot was good at math...
It appears the dog is trained to scratch at or paw it’s owner repeatedly until the correct answer is reached, then the owner says, “GOOOD”...then the dog stops.