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And you can legally breed them.
legally really changes the vibe of your comment
Not allowed for humans. You can only breed yourself. :-)
Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys
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Re: Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys
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> she would sneeze a lot Btw dogs often do this to indicate they're playing/mean no harm :)
I have had greyhounds and lurchers, and every one of them does it. It's not a full sneeze, I call it a "snit" because that's what it sounds like. They're large dogs, so when they're being playful, jumping around and play fighting, we sometimes tell them "no!" is they're about to knock something over. This always gets us a "snit". The yawn thing that someone else mentioned is also common. If they are displeased with y…
(Human) Kids shake too! You can try it yourself, it does work.
Re: Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys
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> she would sneeze a lot Btw dogs often do this to indicate they're playing/mean no harm :)
I have had greyhounds and lurchers, and every one of them does it. It's not a full sneeze, I call it a "snit" because that's what it sounds like. They're large dogs, so when they're being playful, jumping around and play fighting, we sometimes tell them "no!" is they're about to knock something over. This always gets us a "snit". The yawn thing that someone else mentioned is also common. If they are displeased with y…
I've only ever seen dogs yawn on purpose as submissive/appeasing behavior. Kind of a nervous "I'm not trying to cause trouble." I'll get it from dogs if I've asked them to do too many behaviors in a row and they think it's because they haven't given me the correct one. Kind of an apology that they don't know what I want.
I see it occasionally between dogs when one is being stiff/dominant and the other yawns to kind of apologize and diffuse the situation.
Then again, I haven't worked much with sighthounds and they're basically a different species from other dogs, haha.
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That's a new breed I could support. Just throw together a bunch of different breeds of smart dogs. They'll be much mror healthy than most breeds of dog.
On the other hand, smart dogs can be much more difficult to train. They can easily pick up what you're training them to do, but when you want them to actually do it the results can be far more mixed. This is because they're so smart that they seem to know whether doing the thing they were trained to do is worth it to them. Source: I have a Shiba Inu, which is simultaneously one of the smartest and most primitive of d…
There’s a distinction between intelligence and biddability, and I believe they are mostly independent traits.
Some dogs (and indeed most cats) will only use their intelligence to get what they want. Biddable dogs actually care what you want and try to please you, independently of whether it will directly benefit them. You could say their reward is seeing you happy (that’s not to say treats don’t also help!).
The most trainable dogs are both intelligent and biddable.
Re: Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys
#205They should breed them... I'm sure we could select for language geniuses.
hm, is it ethical to breed for sapience? It's interesting how literally building a new sapient being (i.e. AGI) _might_ be widely accepted and uncontroversial, yet the idea of selectively breeding dogs until they reach sapience feels wrong and yucky
Why?
Re: Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys
#206I have owned six dogs in my life, most recently getting a 7 week old pup staffy x ridgeback, now 16 weeks old. He goes with our 9 year old girl staffy, who can follow conversations, eg planning to go to the park or beach without directly mentioning it in any way. All my dogs have understood a lot of words, some more than others, but all way more than 20. The aspects that promote this, I believe, are this: 1. They are…
The argument I've seen made for crating from an evolutionary-history perspective is that dogs are den animals -- they actively like having a small nook that they can feel safe in, where they're comfortable and nothing can sneak up on them. I have a crate for my dog. The door stays open all the time, it has a comfy mat on its floor, and sometimes he goes there to take a nap. He's only ever shut in it when there's a re…
That's not crating though. Having the option to stay there only if it's desirable makes this just another part of the house.
Re: Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys
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I have a 3 year old pug. He'll run through the house searching for the right family member if you count down from 10 and say "Go find X! Where is he?!"
That's too cute! I like to imagine that you have hardwood floors in this house, and he skitters around in a frantic panic Tokyo-drifting his way to that family member
WE ACTUALLY DO THOUGH!! And he does slide around. That's too funny
Re: Certain dogs are capable of learning the names for more than 100 different toys
#208We have poodles, always have, they know amazing things, words, behaviors, when somethings "up", how to manipulate us. Love reading everyone else's anecdotes.
have two standards. both smart but in a different ways. one totally understands your intentions. the other one is "street smart" and tries to manipulate us
Totally, it's funny, one of ours manipulates the other. He'll bark, knowing he's not barking at anything, just to get our other dog to react. He'll even look right him, bark like someone is at the window/door, and then just calmly take his spot as our other runs away.
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have two standards. both smart but in a different ways. one totally understands your intentions. the other one is "street smart" and tries to manipulate us
Totally, it's funny, one of ours manipulates the other. He'll bark, knowing he's not barking at anything, just to get our other dog to react. He'll even look right him, bark like someone is at the window/door, and then just calmly take his spot as our other runs away.
yeah. same with treats/toys.
she tried to pull off multiple times same thing with us, bark at door (and then runs back to see our reaction) in order to make us leave table with food, but we were able to outsmart her :)
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#210I surprised that poodles were called out as a less obvious smart dog. My dog learned on her own that me holding keys + wearing glasses = car ride, while keys + no glasses = walk. It took me a while to learn how she knew what we were going to do.
>I surprised that poodles were called out as a less obvious smart dog.
poodles have stigma of circus/show dog. few people know that poodles are actually water retrievers and rated as second smartest dog.