Dog thread!🐾

[ShrekDawg]

I feel that way about Dorie.

Me with Brewster lol

 

[StinkyAcres]

Luna is mostly genius and occasionally dumb. Dorie is mostly dumb and occasionally genius.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Luna is mostly genius and occasionally dumb. Dorie is mostly dumb and occasionally genius.

I think Brew is the first one lol but maybe in between

 

[LavenderDaFlerf]

Luna is mostly genius and occasionally dumb. Dorie is mostly dumb and occasionally genius.

Gypsy is only genius if there's food involved or the potential to get to a cat

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Both mine are intelligent and willing to do whatever, even if i dont have food. But Tucker always thinks i have food. I havent done stacks in awhile

 

[StinkyAcres]

Dorie's smarter than I give her credit for......but she just "buried" her beef chew on a chair right out in the open, so...

 

[fluffycrow]

Buddy is the smartest dog I've met in person. He can understand complex sentences, he understands which human and which dog we are referring to by their name, among many other things. But he's also run full force into a glass door...

 

[SpotTheCat]

I am sometimes amazed by dogs intelligence, other times stupidity and occasional both at once


I don’t know if I ever posted on here about Fanta and her find the car task, here it is anyway

I taught her to find our car in the driveway so absolutely no other cars anywhere near, I never taught her to find a different car. So once she did well I moved onto finding it in parking lots. I excepted her to struggle which she did. She didn’t seem to understand it at all! But we kept practicing and still she couldn’t do it

until I worked out why. We left the one shop and we had parked a few rows away from the shop entrance. I asked her to find the car she looks around walks forward and goes up to the car right in front, thats looks nothing like our car, and boops the door like I taught her to so I get her to walk forwards to the end of the parking spot and ask again, she stares at my for a few seconds, looks to her right reverse a few steps (she didn’t turn around, literally reversed) and boops the car again. The best thing about this is I then asked her to find my brother who was in our car, she then took me straight back to our car with no issue

some how she has generalised find the car too all cars, which is why she gets confused in parking lot’s because there are too many to choose from

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I guess I see my dogs differently than others. I find them quite intelligent. I'm always surprised by their reasoning abilities, their sense of humor, their ability to find ways to be sneaky like grabbing another toy in order to get the other dog to drop the toy they actually want. I could go on about things I've seen my dogs do.

They say they can have the intelligence of a 2 or 3 year old human, which by the way are so good at manipulating the people around them with fake temper tantrums. Dogs too are good at manipulating, and scheming.

I don't train my dogs beyond a few key things. We do test them by playing find games, and other various mind exercises. Sure there are few that are more intelligent than others, but often the ones that appear dumb are actually very smart, and are just not responding like we might expect.

Dogs are the only species that will routinely look to humans for help. The Max Plank institute has done numerous studies on Dog intelligence. I always enjoy watching the shows on PBS they sometimes have about animal intelligence.

https://www.shh.mpg.de/2186028/dogstudies

Owning Australian shepherds have taught me a lot about dog intelligence. I never knew they had a sense of humor until our first one came up with her own pratfalls and enjoy doing them just for laughs from us. It had helped me to start to understand dog language, which now I think I speak pretty well. Did you know a low gruff growl will tell a dog to be cautious and hang back? I use it to teach mine boundaries. Dogs are amazing creatures that are always teaching me something new.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Mine know what each of their toys are called. And sneaky ways to steal toys or items. And they are very smart