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Dogs. Food. Counters. Chairs.

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Dogs can be very clever when they’re motivated enough:And lest you think that particular dog is an isolated genius of the canine world, check this out. In several ways, I think this dog faced an even greater challenge, but the will was equal to the task:

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Dogs. Food. Counters. Chairs. — 10 Comments

  1. Pigs are smarter, dolphins can see sonograms of you, and birds see 4 colors, an African grey (parrot) can memorize and recite the Gettysburg address, rats possess metacognition, Crows can use tools, a monkey made it into space before man, etc etc etc… 🙂

    oh… and the smartest dog breed/race?
    Border Collie

    Worlds Smartest Dog Britains Got Talent
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UoaTak9TDg&feature=related
    and
    Britain’s Got Talent – FINAL – Kate and Gin
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqQC4rRp7ys&feature=related

    Only Love can train that way… 🙂

    but here is what they were made to do
    Border Collies Herding Cattle
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbLE72rMgcU&feature=related

    socialists are skivers, hire a border collie instead

    Becca – World Sheep Dog Champion 2011
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUnjLPeU_2A&feature=related

    there are all kinds of breeds that do amazing things…

    Hachikō is loyalty
    note the richard gere movie about this ruins the history and message in Hachikō life. it also negated how special the japanese people where who respected the dog too.

    In 1924, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo, took in Hachikō, a golden brown Akita, as a pet. During his owner’s life, Hachikō greeted him at the end of each day at the nearby Shibuya Station. The pair continued their daily routine until May 1925, when Professor Ueno did not return. The professor had suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage and died, never returning to the train station where Hachikō was waiting. Every day for the next nine years the dog waited at Shibuya station.

    as to the special people

    Hachikō attracted the attention of other commuters. Many of the people who frequented the Shibuya train station had seen Hachikō and Professor Ueno together each day. They brought Hachikō treats and food to nourish him during his wait. This continued for nine years with Hachikō appearing precisely when the train was due at the station

    Hachikō was one of only 30 pure bred Akita’s left
    (they were used for bear hunting)

    Hachikō died on March 8, 1935, and was found on a street in Shibuya

    Greyfriars Bobby, a Skye Terrier in Edinburgh, Scotland, was loyal to his master long after his master’s death in 1858. Until Bobby’s death 14 years later, he reportedly spent every night at his master’s grave
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Bobby

    There are recent soldier funerals were the dogs would not leave the caskets.

    and the numbers who have saved people even dying trying are enumerable…

    and there is evidence that they have been with humans so long we have adapted to each other…

  4. Love that look of the spotted dog. \

    Hey, am I eating anything here which might be missed? Master says no, but food says yes. Ummm mmm good. “Don’t ask me to curb my natural impulses. I have CIVIL RIGHTS you know.\

    Dog.

    Represted by greedy lawyer.

    Hi! Hello! Greedy lawyer here!

  5. Wow, what a superb effort to obtain freedom by that Beagle, JS.

    Kind of like the monster in Van Helsing.

  6. I would fix a cup of coffee, leave it on the counter while I left the room to get the newspaper. When I would return, the coffee would be half gone. I finally caught my cocker spaniel in the act. She would accompany me to the front door, then run back to the kitchen, jump up on the bar height chair, lap up “her” coffee then run back to meet me at the door when I returned. I’m ashamed to admit that it took me several weeks to figure it out. I thought I was losing my mind because I was sure I hadn’t drunk any coffee. Oh well. Mystery solved.

  8. Curtis,

    I watch that beagle video frequently. It always brings a smile to my face. As they said in Jurassic park, ‘Life finds a way.”

  9. Jonathan Chait can be very clever when he’s motivated enough. Oops, that was the previous post.

  10. That’s nothing. Our Yorkie chased a full grown cougar out of our yard. She is still trying to figure out how to eat an armadillo and catch the whooping cranes and helicopters that sometimes fly over.

    Too ambitious, but maybe that is why they domesticated us! Like George Carline said, the earth invented us to make plastic.

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