I have a German Shepard mix that is amazingly intelligent and seems to be able to follow simple conversations. My other dog a Boxer, Beagle mix is as dumb as a rock. The smart one is a one or two takes on a command and it learns it, the dumb one needs to go over and over a command. Like people dogs vary but some of them are vastly smarter then what is stated in the article. My point being that researchers don’t usually factor in for the variability of living things.
Yeah, I don’t think they factor in individual dogs either. I’m convinced that certian breed are smarter than others, and it seems that mutts are generally very smart.
I think my next dog is going to have to have some shepard in it too.