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fuzzis
06-04-2007, 01:43 PM
What is your dog thinking? (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19018411/)
Research provides more evidence of surprisingly complex abilities

Dog owners have long maintained that their pooches have a lot more going on between their furry ears than scientists acknowledge. Now, new research is adding to the growing evidence that man's best friend thinks a lot more than many humans have believed.

The provocative new experiment indicated that dogs can do something that previously only humans, including infants, have been shown capable of doing: decide how to imitate a behavior based on the specific circumstances in which the action takes place....

Maggie-Doodle
06-04-2007, 03:02 PM
Actually I think there is really something to that deduction. We laugh all the time about BooBoo...it is like she gets this thought and you can see the little wheels turning...she seems to be trying to figure whatever it is out....

Yesterday we took her two balls and hid them up high so she couldn't get to them because she had hurt her leg.....we didn't want her running for a couple of days...she keep smelling and smelling until she got the scent of the balls then she proceeded to where we had put them....you could see her in thought trying to figure out how in the heck she was gonna get one of them down...after about 20 minutes she decided to climb...still she couldn't quite reach the ball so she stuck her right leg out and reached to pull the ball to her...she couldn't reach it so the little heifer turned around, stuck out the left front leg and stretched until she had one of the balls and was ready to play....then she turned around to look at us as if to say "haha, you just THOUGHT you had it hid! I got it, I got it!" Smart little codgers they are sometimes! :)

Tully Mars
06-04-2007, 04:16 PM
What is your dog thinking? (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19018411/)



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