Dogs Smarter Than Toddlers

Us dog owners have know how smart our dogs are for many years, but know finally science has started to catch up. IQ tests have show Border Collies and other bright canines can learn up to 250 words. The canine IQ test results have shown even the average dog has the metal abilities of a 2 year old child. The finding is based on a language development test, showing the average dogs can learn 165 words which is similar to a 2 year olf child, which includs signals and gestures.
Dog where ranked up there with 2 year olds in language, in arithmetic dogs would trump 3 -4 year olds.

The social life of dogs is much more complex more like teenagers at stages, like who is sleeping with who and who is moving up in the pack ect. Coren, who has written a number of books on dogs and dog behavior, will present and overview of various studies on dog smarts at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting in Toronto.
It is a fact that we want insight into how our four legged friends think, to understand their silly ways and irrational behaviors.

Like toddlers dogs have basic emotions, happiness, anger, sadness and disgust. But dogs don;t have the emotion of guilt as some of us thought but found to be doggy fear. Dogs undestand they are being treated fairly, but they don't grasp the concept of equity. In a study which dogs get a treat for giving their paw, the other dog that dose not get rewarded stops performing the trick, and dose not make eye contact with the trainer. Even if one dog is reward with a nice steak while the other dog get a piece cheese, on average the dog getting the cheese dosen't care about the inequality of the treasts.

But for us dog lovers it dosen;t matter if we have a smarty pants, or who made it to the top 10 list of the most popular dog breed in 2008, or who is the sweetest or sociable, or dim wits. There is nothing better than the love we get from our dogs.