One day my bullie was getting into some mischief. I called him and he ignored me. I started counting. He bout broke his neck getting to me by the time I got to two.
He still responds to counting. I think he understands it better than my boys.
Posted on 06/10/2004 10:41:32 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
smartest dogs= Border collies
One of my dogs, a wildly neurotic German shepherd, understands the theory, but lacks the patience to perform it on her own. So I trained her to do a loop around the tree once when I pick up the cable and say, "Come around, idiot."
Being a dog, she waits for me to tell her to "come around" before doing it, even though she obviously knows it's coming up.
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Looks like you call him Snaggletooth, huh? Very gentle dogs, aren't they?
Rhodesian Ridgebacks may give them a run for their money.
RR's were bred in Africa to hunt lions, so I suppose intelligence was an important trait to cultivate -- the dumber ones would get themselves killed pretty quickly.
I knew a woman who had two she kept in her backyard, which was surrounded by a seven-foot wood fence.
She tried every gate latch known to man, but the dogs figured out them all and kept letting themselves out. The only thing that worked was a combination lock.
So rather than going out the gate, they went over the wall, passing a test that's often used for primates -- they pushed various things from the backyard up against the fence until they had built a "stairway" high enough to let them hop over the fence...
GOOD! Now I just need someone to define a Republican cat.
It's not really a life-threatening situation.
oh man I was not prespared for that. lol!
My Aussie Shepherd is smarter then your honor student...
My late wife’s dog (above) - now mine by default - understands every word I utter.
He would never lower himself to such an experiment by obeying any “command”. He will occasionally honor a request.
The Boogie would be there in under two seconds, but he's polite enough to set and wait for my permission before he would grab it.
I’m considerably bigger and badder than he is, and he knows it.
Ah.
Shep devoured furniture for some strange demented reason.
My friend never could figure out just what was so fascinating to lunkhead dog about the couch.
Well, dogs are supposed to be loyal and friendly, not abound in intelligence. So, I don't think he really had that much to complain about.
This is great news! Now there is hope for Hillary.
LOL!
A friend had a Pit Bull named "Daz".
Honestly, the level of stupidity that Daz was should have been fatal.
Daz would jump straight up and down in excitement whenever you looked at him.
The fatal stupidity part is that he'd do that no matter where he was at, under a table, in front of you under a heavy cast iron pan, under a chair -he was a 'self punishing' dog.
You could hold a brick in your hand out level with your chest and say, "Daz!" and he'd jump into it.
Repeatedly.
Not sure where Daz is now, he ran out the front door of my friend's place and saw LOTS of people outside and just had to go and lick everyone he saw.
They never did catch up to him, and no-one said they found him.
I wouldn't be surprised if Daz was still running around jumping in front of and licking everyone he saw.
It probably is looking for someone to lick at this very moment.
Dogs, cats, hamsters and the like, are cute and very nice to look at, but I wouldn't envy the person who must take care of them.
Even if my allergies didn't rule out owning one of these animals, the sheer cost of maintaining them would.
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