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Yale Study: Canine Minds Far More Complex Than Originally Thought
CBS News LosAngeles ^ | 2/16/15

Posted on 02/17/2015 11:25:16 AM PST by Kartographer

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To: NormsRevenge

NEVER TRUST anyone your dog doesn’t!


41 posted on 02/17/2015 12:10:08 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: WayneS

certainly the pooches are smarter than many of their liberal arts professors

(except for the occasional dog that gets eaten at the White House)


42 posted on 02/17/2015 12:15:32 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..).)
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To: Argus
I think dogs are telepathic. My dog always seems to know what I intend to do before I do it.

Mine, too. Well, one of them anyway. She seems to know whether I'm going to let them out, give them a treat, go for a ride etc before I make any moves. She's right about 90% of the time.

As for my other dog, he's a big lovable googball but not the brightest creature on earth, LOL!

43 posted on 02/17/2015 12:19:34 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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To: NormsRevenge

No wonder Muslims hate dogs. Like in that Twilight Zone episode,

“The devil’s fooled a lot of people but even he can’t fool a dog!”


44 posted on 02/17/2015 12:19:51 PM PST by elcid1970 ("I: am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: Ken H

googball = goofball


45 posted on 02/17/2015 12:20:27 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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To: NormsRevenge

No wonder Muslims hate dogs. Like in that Twilight Zone episode,

“The devil’s fooled a lot of people but even he can’t fool a dog!”


46 posted on 02/17/2015 12:20:34 PM PST by elcid1970 ("I: am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: AxeofCrom

Things have been looking mighty bleak for mankind here lately!


47 posted on 02/17/2015 12:20:55 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Kartographer

My dog loves TV, the Dog TV channel, will get up from his rug and bark at four legged animals, (people are O.K.). If we say dog he will whirl around and see if there is a dog in a commercial (there are lots of them) and bark and leap at the TV. The Budweiser commercial was different. He did a whimper bark when the pup was in danger.

We have got to get a picture/short video of him doing this.


48 posted on 02/17/2015 12:25:43 PM PST by WHATNEXT?
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To: AxeofCrom

There is NOTHING on this Earth more fear inspiring than a small dog!

I was walking my German Shepherd, a fearless squirrel terminator, living tissue over metal endo-skeleton, down the street of my neighborhood one day when, all of a sudden as we passed this roadside bush next to a mailbox, this 5 lbs. barking cerberus made itself known.

My fearless shepherd literally teleported behind me. The move was so fast that her leash remained in its original position sans dog for about a good 3 seconds before time actually caught up with my teleporting shepherd, and her leash magically returned to her collar behind me.

Luckily, the owner of the cerberus hound came and rescued us, otherwise we surely would have been doomed.

Little dog is boss, that is all.


49 posted on 02/17/2015 12:27:05 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Gay State Conservative
My dog wrote the software package for the 747:


50 posted on 02/17/2015 12:46:01 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: Kartographer

I’ve always liked Bo over bo.


51 posted on 02/17/2015 12:46:11 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Bo: capitalized is the dog.)
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To: chris37

I don’t know what it is - it’s weird. She’s strong, but not that strong.

That being said, when I was a boy, I had a dachshund who was attacked by a huge shepherd/lab mix from next door (who had killed two other stray dogs and a couple of cats) He jumped the fence into our yard.

My girl curled up in a ball (phalanx style) and took one bite in the side from the enemy (a few stitches fixed her right up). I was running toward both of them when I saw my dog lash out - quick as a flash, and popped out the other dog’s eye - which she ate.

He ran away, never came back and the owner never said a word. She also saved my mother while she was gardening one day by killing a copperhead - grabbed it before my mother even saw it, shook it, and took off it’s head...which she didn’t eat.

I’ve always had dachshunds ever since...or rather they’ve had me.


52 posted on 02/17/2015 12:46:26 PM PST by AxeofCrom
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To: Kartographer

A big question is would it be possible to “force evolution” for dogs?

There are any number of improvements that could be made to canines, that would give people more of what we enjoy in dogs.

1) Longer, healthier lives.
2) Greater intelligence. Eventually learning how to communicate several ideas.
3) The ability to indicate that they have pain or discomfort, and “where it hurts”.
4) To be able to let us know that they sense important things we cannot.
5) The ability to voice communicate with each other.


53 posted on 02/17/2015 12:48:46 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: circlecity


54 posted on 02/17/2015 12:51:06 PM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: WHATNEXT?

Mine watch DogTV, too.

So do I.

:D


55 posted on 02/17/2015 12:52:47 PM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
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To: AxeofCrom
We have a smooth haired Dachschund and we race her every year at the annual weinerdog races in Buda Texas.

I once lived in a rough part of town, and to keep things even, I had a large rottweiler "Duke" and a chainlink fence so they could all see him. We had lots of section 8 apartments nearby, thus lots of human debri walking around. I have lots of stories, but one good story is when I went to the local convenience store and saw half of the apartment complex inside the store loitering. So..

I backed up my truck directly in front of the exit door with Duke sitting in the back. When the feral canine-aphobe urban folk inside realized they were trapped, they did everything to make sure I left without a hitch. I was allowed to go to the head of the line. One lady asked, "do he bite?". I replied, "lets hope not", to which she was not pleased. However, she was wise enough not to raise a hand to me.

56 posted on 02/17/2015 12:55:13 PM PST by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: Kartographer

What’s next, “Inside the Soul of a Peanut”?


57 posted on 02/17/2015 12:57:20 PM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: Kartographer

Our dog is racist!! Seriously, when we have people come to the front door (sales) she’ll growl and bark - but only if they’re black!! I can’t explain it, I always treat them the same. Thing is, she’s totally harmless!! One (very large) guy saw the dog and said “whoa” and stepped back five feet...which is generally a good thing, but I could only think, “if only you knew” lol.

She’s going on 14, quite the princess in general - my wife spoiled her.


58 posted on 02/17/2015 1:00:54 PM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: lormand

Dachshunds are faster than they look, aren’t they?? Aerodynamic too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXn2QVipK2o


59 posted on 02/17/2015 1:01:36 PM PST by AxeofCrom
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To: Kartographer

My dog is so smart my husband and I catch ourselves spelling in front of him.


60 posted on 02/17/2015 1:02:47 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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