Posted on 10/16/2009 3:33:52 PM PDT by Lorianne
The CBS "Early Show" ran a story about dogs and their intelligence, or lack thereof. In the story, they shared their list of the top 10 smartest and top 10 dumbest dog breeds. These were their picks.
I have an border collie aussie shepard mix. Intellegent and fun dog
Our shnauser was dumber than a box of rocks.
OUr yorkie was another people, except brighter than most.
Our standard cockerspanials ...this was forty years ago, were so intelligent they were known in the county.
In all honesty, the pound mutt may be the smartest of the three. He is mostly untrainable, but very smart. He has ZERO desire to obey, but genuinely is ‘scary’ smart.
Don’t know if it is the Lab, or GSD, or luck (?) - my wife sometimes worries that he may actually BE a human reincarnated, although she doesn’t believe in reincarnation.
But a guard dog who alerts and doesn’t attack is a dog you can trust with kids. And isn’t it a delight to talk about our dogs!
Lol...Bassetts are so cute. Look at my home page. I have the “real” ones. Not house pets but so awesome.
My two little ones drive me insane. One thinks the house is a toilet. I want to throttle her at times.
I love them all. My little Snickers has an issue getting under the blankets when he is cold. He pats my forehead until I wake up and lift the blankets for him.
My sister has a dog as dumb as rocks - 100 lbs of love, unadulterated by intelligence. But he is still such a delight to be around!
Border collies ...
Our dear departed BC mix seemed to read our minds.
Now we have a blue heeler who seems in the same league.
Her only fault is that she regards cats as vermin to be eliminated.
Golden’s are 4th smartest, what happened to Rumdum?
That looks like a sweet dog....One of the reasons to love a poodle is they don't shed........but hers are good hunters, they bring back all kinds of killed things and drop them in the garage...That's where all her cats drop their kills also..
The live in the woods.....and the critters have lots of room to roam...
Should have said the picture in my account only showed 1/2 of the dogs head......
He is the sweetest, and spoiled rotten. The minatures were used to hunt for truffles. He roots around in the grass all the time. Always has dirt on his nose. And has a nose for the birds too.
I have a female basset that swears my bathroom rugs are a toilet. I have tried to retrain her to pads, it is a work in progress. I think sometimes she does it out of spite.
And I have a male basset that loves being under the covers. He is older and has always been a bit skinnier.
Finally, the biggest of the 3 is the biggest baby. He would die for your little ones. Roll over and let them chew on him. The only fear I have when he is around really small dogs is he forgets he is HUGE.
They're an endless source of amusement.
That was when she was 10 months old . . . "Hi! I'm havin' a ball! Wanta bite?"
I had two red heelers years ago that would eat any cat that got near their territory. Scary. But, I grew up on a ranch with heelers and farm cats, and they never mixed it up. Something about those two.
She IS a cutie!
No way... I roll over on my little pups and they know to move!!!
I worried a few years ago, they are now in our program. We roll, you move... They do.
My priest is a big dog lover. Has three labs of his own.
Rudy sometimes forgot that he was HUGE in comparison to my little Lab. They would roughhouse together on the sidelines of the ring -- they would leap up and bump chests, and of course Rudy knocked Shelley sprawling, and she would just pick herself up and wade back in again.
The only time she ever seemed nonplussed was when Rudy somehow accidentally got her entire head inside his mouth . . . she gave this little < yelp! > and froze -- Rudy spit her out and said, "Gee, sorry!" and they kept right on playing.
He was pretty funny as an agility dog, as he was too big for the equipment. Occasionally he had to be pried out of a tunnel, but thank goodness he never fell off the dog walk, he could have gotten hurt.
Very nice temperament, but kind of nervous Nellie's.
When she was a small pup she had limited opportunities to get in trouble.
LOL! I just got home from work (wife is at a “quilting retreat”) and had to clean up the remains of TWO phone books from my 6 month old male lab. LMAO!
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