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What it seems to come down to, is that dogs have personalities
every bit as much as humans. They are extremely individual in some cases, less so in others. Just like humans.
Thanks for posting this, I really enjoyed it!
posted by
Ciel
on January 24, 2011 at 1:53 PM
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This is such a brilliant post, Mal. I'm still laughing.
posted by
Rockingrector_retd
on January 24, 2011 at 9:32 AM
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Cat's too I had a Burmese before Mr. G. who is a Russian blue
as we all know....anyway My Burmese ...Frangipani....taught me how to be a good cat Mama and the task has been made easy for Graysome....but he is extraordinarily intelligent which goes along with what is being said here, we learn their language as much as they learn ours...and they do have different dialogues....and Mr G. is also bilingual...his first human language must have been French.
I too must stop before I write a post.......lol.....You have really touched a subject we love...animal family.
posted by
Kabu
on January 23, 2011 at 2:47 PM
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gap
Cool! I think J.G. is quite correct - a dog's intelligence is not necessarily measured by his ability to 'speak', or at least understand, English (or Chinese for that matter; I would imagine there are millions of dogs who understand more Chinese than I do, LOL.)
Measuring any animal by 'human' standards is difficult at best, and, quite apart from that, I am sure that within each breed there may be significant individual differences. I have a friend who has two Whippets, a breed allegedly not blessed with intelligence. Well, one of them lives up to a Whippet's reputation, but the other one does not and shows a great deal of intelligence.
Jag understands a lot of English. I mostly speak to him in (more or less) complete, conversational sentences, and while he may not be interested in the current state of affairs in the Middle East (but then, how many people are), he understands what he needs to understand. Of course, he probably cues in on specific words in a sentence, but nonetheless. For example, the difference between 'You can come along' and 'Sorry, but you can't come along' is absolutely clear to him.
But of course, I have learned a lot of Poodle as well! I say Poodle since I am also convinced each breed has it's own distinct 'dialect' of Dog...
But I better stop before this turns into a post...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 23, 2011 at 8:28 AM
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Wow! A 1,000 names and can retrieve them; one smart animal! sammy
posted by
sam444
on January 23, 2011 at 8:24 AM
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