[traderrob6]

Border Collies are usually very bright.

My wife chastises me every time I say it but our last two Goldens haven't been the sharpest knives in the drawer

[Timocrat]

but our last two Goldens haven't been the sharpest knives in the drawer

A lot of working breeds are ruined because breeders want "Show Dogs" instead of breeding for working traits. If you're buying a dog for working/hunting then better to buy the offspring of "field trial" champions than Show Dogs.

[Sans-Culotte]

My wife chastises me every time I say it but our last two Goldens haven't been the sharpest knives in the drawer.

According to Stanley Coren's THE INTELLIGENCE OF DOGS, Goldens rank around 4th.

Here is our little 11th ranked Pembroke Welsh Corgi Riley:

[dljordan]

“My wife chastises me every time I say it but our last two Goldens haven’t been the sharpest knives in the drawer”

I had a big, sweet, dumb-as-a-rock Golden. My Weimaraner-Labrador mix had to tell him what to do all the time.