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Contents 1 comment 2 intelligence- wide range 3 Biased Much? 3.1 Merge with The Intelligence of Dogs

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did the best copyedit I could. If anyone thinks it needs more, please put the tag back.

I have a dog. If you put a blanket over her, she turns in circles until she gets tangled up and falls over. Not very intelligent. I had one that did funny things to my leg, that's not very intelligent either.

Funny, I know a couple of infants that will do about the same thing when covered with a blanket (or even just cry and make no attempt to escape). They must be extremely unintelligent (especially since they are of a supposedly more intelligent species than your dog) according to your logic. The_Irrelevant_One 00:48, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Actually, it says that they are of the same intelligence. Animal intelligence is often compared to humans'. And because very young babies can't solve very many problems, animal intelligence often compared to new-borns and infants intead of adult humans. B katt 500 01:17, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Note the same text is posted on another website

http://www.tagate.com/dog/page/dog_intelligence.shtml

[edit] intelligence- wide range

intelligence is many different things. like my dogs knows plenty of commands or tricks if you will, but is a dog that doesn't know any stupid? no, maybe the dog that knows no tricks was never taught and they do say it's harder to teach an old dog tricks. so intelligence is such a wide subject that you can't really pen-point-it to any one thing. like is albert einstien stupid because he couldn't spell? no he was good in science and not english. dogs same way- one might be good at commands and one might be good at "common sence". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.238.101.92 (talk • contribs) .

Exactly the point of the article. At least, I hope it's clear that that's the point! (BTW, in my experience, an old dog is no harder to teach tricks to than a younger dog--in particular, if the dog is accustomed to learning things.) 05:04, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Biased Much?

This article does not seem to be reasearched, yet a bunch of dog lovers thoughts about dog intellect. A brain size and surface area should be added. B katt 500 03:21, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeah. It seems to decribe the habits of the owners rather than the natural mental abilities of dogs. Teemu Ruskeepää 13:23, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Intelligence, in my opinion, is being able to figure things out, not just follow commands and other silly stuff. If intelligence is only the ability of following commands, then we humans must be extremly dumb. B katt 500 18:07, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with The Intelligence of Dogs

Why should there be two articles on a topic so similar? --YoavD 08:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)