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Re: Dogs

POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 23:30
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NIKI2

Friday, September 11, 2009 5:57 PM

Oh, gawd, you had me laughing so hard I coughed and nearly pissed in my pants (wait 'till you reach my age...). Hysterical...people are so incredibly stupid sometimes, it explains SO much of our politics!

...still giggling...

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BORIS

Saturday, September 12, 2009 1:13 AM

Ha ha Ginobiffaroni I loved your story...what is it about Big W lines that attracts such stupid questions. I have people asking me weird stuff all the time while I'm waiting ( I live in a backwards ferral infested town in NSW where most people have the IQ of a newt)
never thought of messing with them might try it.

MSA

Monday, September 14, 2009 6:31 PM

http://www.livescience.com/animals/etc/090617-are-dogs-smarter-than-ca
ts.html

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

NIKI2

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 9:59 PM

Quote:
In an experiment, scientists gave cats string with a treat on the end. The cats would pull the string and get the treat. Faced with two strings — one bearing a treat, the other not — the cats were befuddled.

Dunno about that one. I read about a similar experiment, in which the cats PLAYED with both strings, indicating food wasn't as important as enjoying themselves, which sounds more like cats to me. How did they judge "befuddled", anyway?

I'm suspicious this was done by a dog person. Personally, I think both are equally bright--dogs are just programmed to please us; "cats take a message and get back to you", as they say.

Ah-HAH! Went to the full article and found

Quote:
"I am not trying to say cats are stupid, just they are different. We are so anthropomorphic we can't see the world through their eyes."

Right on (and mind you, I'm by far a dog person!)

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GINOBIFFARONI

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:30 PM

The other day I took my Chocolate Lab Kaylee to the park and was throwing the ball for her. The ball landed, she ran over, and then she just stopped.

I walked over, she pointed the ball, then rolled it with her paw showing me it landed up against some other dogs poop...

She wouldn't pick it up until after I cleaned the ball..lol

Then we walked back to my jeep when we were done, and she had this moment of amazement when she tried to sit in the shade of the jeep waiting for me to catch up. I usually run her in the afternoon, but on that day we went in the morning, and the shade was on the wrong side of the jeep. Was quite funny watching her reason that out.

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