Top 10 Smartest and Dumbest Dog Breeds

CBS4.com ^ | 4/7/08

[envisio]

My older boy is a lab/chow and has always been smart. He would have never made a good police dog or working dog but smart in ways that he knows alot of words and is good at reading my body language. He’s old and set in his ways now. He gets grumpy if his routine is changed...

The lab/beagle 1yearold is just plain goofy. I would’t say he’s dumb because he already knows alot of words and is obedient but GOOFY.

[vietvet67]

lol.

Had a dog like that once. He taught me how to drag my butt across the livingroom carpet. That always went over well. :-)

[VA Voter]

“Free Cat”

LOL

[OB1kNOb]

Cats have staff.

Like a saying I saw the other day,

"Thousands of years ago cats were worshipped as gods. They still remember that."

[dead]

One of them died and the other didn’t notice.

That cracked me up. Dumb dog.

[flutters]

My Mountain Feist & American Eskimo are pretty smart, but not on either list.

Googled pictures - not actual pictures of my dogs

[Clint N. Suhks]

My experience with Irish Setters is the same as yours.

Dumber than a box of rocks, but they sure are perdy!

[Veto!]

Poodles probably hate the foo foo thing too. I knew a herd of standard black untrimmed poodles who lived at a dude ranch we went to for years who were the most delightful intelligent companion animals you could ever want to meet.

I think my Cardigan Welsh Corgi was the smartest dog in the world.

[Apercu]

I've owned Bullmastiff’s, Labs, Dachshunds,Schnauzers & Mutts.One of my Labs was as dumb as a box of rocks & the smartest was my Bullmastiff female by a hair over my Doxie & Schnauzer females.Males are like perpetual teenage boys driven by food & hormones which overpowers any brain function they may have.

[TChad]

I am shocked, shocked that the Setter didn’t make the bottom 10 dumbest.

I have known an Irish Setter to chase the spot illuminated by a flashlight beam in a dark room. If you moved the light around, he would chase it.

Another Setter chewed up a boat model I made as a kid, using glue and flat toothpicks. I spent maybe twelve hours on that thing. It was nothing but white glue and toothpicks. He thought it was food.

As an intelligent dog, the Irish Setter is very pretty.

BTW, the Poodles are really smart.

Yes. Some of them seem too smart to be dogs.

[RoseofTexas]

OMG!! Surely this has got to be the LAUGH of the day!!!....ROTFLMAO!

[Red Badger]

My lab will fetch a ball and stuff like that. But when feeding time comes, he’ll get the little football in his mouth and stand in front of the dog food and whine and look at me then back at the food, because it takes him a few minutes to figure out that he has to put the football down before he can get food in his mouth!.............

[Clint N. Suhks]

Now that was funny!

I wonder why they don't run that very often?

[envisio]

LOL DOGS: I HAS A HOTDOG

[Vermonter]

Mine either. He’s not dumb, but I certainly wouldn’t rate him near the top for smarts.

[r9etb]

After 3 Irish Setters and 2 Standard Poodles, I am shocked, shocked that the Setter didn’t make the bottom 10 dumbest. Does anyone know where the Setter ranks?

Based on the ones we had when I was growing up, Irish Setters come in as the #1 Silliest dogs.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

We have a rescue dog that looks like part Border Collie. He's a lover but can't say he's necessarily the smartest thing in the world. He is a hoot to watch in action as he wants his people both in the same place at the same time. He goes to a lot of trouble trying to arrange that to happen.

He, and our female Springer Spaniel took off yesterday and were gone six hours. He was clearly traumatized by the ordeal as when we found them, he jumped in the car whining.

[Mamzelle]

re: My mutt has tricked me into feeding him and walking behind him picking up his crap. That makes him slightly smarter than me.)))

LOL!!

[fanfan]

Smartest Dog Ever.

Aussi Shepherd.....

[Clint N. Suhks]

So, within a breed, there can be large variance in intelligence.

Oh that's for sure. My experience with Goldens are at the field trials I ran my Chesapeake Retriever in and they were very far and few between as were Chessy's. Labs rule in those events for sure.