Dogs Display Aspects Of Human Intelligence

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 11-29-2007 | Roger Highfield

[blam]

To see my dogs, click on my name.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The more I know about people, the more I appreciate my dog.

[badpacifist]

[badpacifist]

MY dog was mocking me

[blam]

"MY dog was mocking me"

Nah, listening to your jokes.

[Proud2BeRight]

This is difficult to accept when our dog eats poop.

[mylife]

Pooch ping

[Thrownatbirth]

Those dogs played them for suckers. Everyone knows dogs do anything for treats.

[hinckley buzzard]

This is a factitious result of the scientific illiteracy of our falling age. Wanna see a monkey go nuts? Show him a picture of a human face with the eyes and mouth pasted in impossible, abnormal positions. 30-40 year old common place phenomena in undergraduate psychology. This "study" would not have passed muster as an undergraduate honors thesis 30 years ago.

[Atchafalaya]

Wow, Gary Larson was right.

[blam]

"This is difficult to accept when our dog eats poop."

I've read that if your dog will eat poop...he's not being proprely fed.

[Cicero]

Our three dogs understand everything we say. They just don’t always agree with it.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

My new dog is from a shelter, a mixed breed (terrier and we think German Sheppard or maybe some kind of hound). We have had him since June and we think he is about a year old (give or take a month or two). He is sort of medium (around 55 lbs or so). Really a sweet, people person dog. He (w/o us wanting him too) has mastered our original kitchen trash can (it was cheap and plastic and had a tab you hit on the top and the lid popped up). He openned it w/his nose...So I got a new one, before Thanksgiving. An expensive metal one, called a Bullet. It has a foot pedal. Well, he’s learned to hit that w/his paw (after watching us I guess...we have only had it about two weeks). When he knows he’s ‘caught’ he turns head to the side and looks like he’s saying ‘who me?’

[eyedigress]

I hope the dog picked a flushed bowl. :^)

[EagleUSA]

Yes, my dog mimics me all the time -— yesterday I caught him mounting a bitch in heat on my front lawn...at least I have the decency to invite them inside first.

[blam]

"When he knows he’s ‘caught’ he turns head to the side and looks like he’s saying ‘who me?’"

Sounds like both of you (you and the dog) have had good luck in finding each other.

[r9etb]

THe neighbor's dog is an idiot savant -- if you're throwing balls for him, he can count to four: even if you've hidden the balls, he knows when you've still got some left to throw.

Just the other night, my dog showed abstract reasoning capabilities -- my son was training him to find things, and invariably the first place he went to look was to the last place he'd found stuff.

[TASMANIANRED]

Dogs can count...Get out 3 treats and only give them 2..

Dogs are very good with inanimate representations...I figured out my lab pups were too big for me to walk tandem any more when they pulled me across a neighbors lawn to visit with the concrete Collie lawn ornament.

My big Lab swung wide and barked at the concrete lion in anothers lawn...
and she has never met a lion or a collie....

[yorkie]

Love those pics, and those of your dogs. Wish we had a ‘dog pinger’ here on FR! Here’s one I posted a couple days ago:

“Dear God - From the Dog:”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1930989/posts?page=22#22

[TASMANIANRED]

LOL... I was gonna ping you..