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To: fly_so_free

smartest dogs= Border collies


81 posted on 06/10/2004 4:01:59 PM PDT by fly_so_free ("Ronald Reagan told the truth to a world made weary by lies"-Peggy Noonan)
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To: fly_so_free
smartest dogs= Border collies

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...


86 posted on 06/10/2004 4:57:03 PM PDT by Ichneumon
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