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"A dog’s entire world revolves around its primary owner, and it will respond to that person to get what it wants, usually food, treats or affection."

Aw, this article about the way dogs think is just the best thing ever.

By giving dogs language learning and other tests devised for infants and toddlers, Dr. Coren has come up with an intelligence ranking of 100 breeds, with border collies at No. 1. He says the most intelligent breeds (poodles, retrievers, Labradors and shepherds) can learn as many as 250 words, signs and signals, while the others can learn 165. The average dog is about as intellectually advanced as a 2- to 2-and-a-half-year-old child, he has concluded, with an ability to understand some abstract concepts. For example, the animal can get “the idea of being a dog” by differentiating photographs with dogs in them from photographs without dogs.

I assume by language learning they mean something other than HI THERE FRIEND, HI LIL GUY, WHO’S A GUHHH DOG? WHO’S MY BUB? IT’S A GUHH PUPPYYY HI DOGGYWOGGYBUBBYLDSFJKSDLFJSDF

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