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	Which Are Smarter, Cats or Dogs? - MSN Encarta
		Probably the best-known expert on the intelligence of dogs is Stanley Coren, a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia and the author of several books about dogs.
		Dogs were quicker to figure out how to hop on board the human gravy train.
		Despite this, dogs' skill at language and communication with humans has enabled them to not only be companions, but also to perform crucial jobs.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/Features/Columns/?article=catsanddogsdogthink (749 words)

	Dog Intelligence
		Dog intelligence is the ability of a dog to learn, think, and solve problems.
		Dog trainers, owners, and researchers have as much difficulty agreeing on a method for testing canine intelligence, as they do for human intelligence.
		Dogs are pack animals, meaning that they understand social structure and obligations and are capable of learning how to behave around other members of the pack.
	www.sheppardsoftware.com /content/animals/animals/breeds/dogtopics/dog_intelligence.htm (953 words)

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		Few people would consider a person's keen eyesight or fast reflexes as intelligence, yet dogs are often given credit for possessing intelligence based solely on their non-mental, physical attributes.
		Many dog owners are amazed that a dog will pace whine and go to the door as much a 30 minutes before its owner is expected.
		The dog is capable of predicting a daily pattern, but incapable of understanding days of the week.
	www.clickandtreat.com /dfogb3.html (1121 words)

	How smart is your dog?('The Intelligence of Dogs' rates
		For a dog, they assumed, intelligence means being able to carry out commands and to put its training to practical use.
		The 10 dumbest dogs, according to Dr. Coren, are, the basset hound, mastiff; beagle, Pekingese, bloodhound, borzoi, chow chow, bulldog, borzoi, and Afghan hound.
		Dog owners who don't find their dogs rated highly for intelligence should take heart.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-16809706.html (326 words)

	AnimalNews.com -Media Section
		For the intelligent dog this means that there is a greater opportunity to learn things that will be useful in adapting to everyday life, but also provides a greater opportunity for the dog to learn "odd" or annoying associations.
		For this intelligent dog it was easy to reach the conclusion that these windows could also be used as exits.
		A less intelligent dog would have been considerably less likely to form the association that crashing through the screen results in outdoor time, based upon a single instance.
	www.animalnews.com /coren/e_intelligence.html (700 words)

	Guide Dogs for the Blind: Steering a Safe Course
		Dogs that will live in people's homes and guide them through streets from Manhattan, N.Y., to Manhattan, Kan., need to be exposed to families, cars, cats and fun.
		When the dog hesitates for just a split second, the dog is rewarded with the sound of a "click" (which means "you're right!") and a treat.
		Giving a dog food reward may be old hat for pet owners, but it's been taboo in guide dog circles for generations of trainers.
	www.guidedogs.com /site/PageServer?pagename=news_news_reprints_steeringcourse (1337 words)

	Interpreting the Score - Money
		Dogs with these ranks may also respond a bit more slowly when their handlers are farther away from them.
		Owners of these dogs spend a lot of the time shouting at them, since the dogs seem totally unresponsive if there is much distance between them and their handlers.
		People who own such dogs usually rationalize their dogs' behavior with the same arguments that cat owners use to explain their animals' unresponsiveness, claiming that the animals are "independent," "aloof," "easily bored by the obedience business," and so forth.
	www.nbc4.com /money/2198301/detail.html (1356 words)

	Dog intelligence - an introduction - Citizendium
		Dog intelligence is the ability of a dog to learn and solve problems.
		Dog trainers, owners, and researchers have as much (or more) difficulty agreeing on how to evaluate canine intelligence as they do for human intelligence.
		Such dogs might be "smart" and yet, disobedient, and their intelligence is liable to be underestimated if measured strictly by how well and how quickly they carry out precise orders given by a human master.
	en.citizendium.org /wiki/Dog_intelligence (665 words)

	USATODAY.com - Why your dog is smarter than a wolf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Csanyi, who had dogs of his own, suspected the dogs were awaiting permission to open the gate, that they regarded opening the gate as a violation of their master's rules.
		In 1997, Csanyi and his colleagues tested 28 dogs of various ages, breeds, and closeness to their owners, to see if they could learn to obtain cold cuts on the other side of a fence by pulling on the handles of dishes while their owners were present.
		Dogs' unusual ability and motivation to observe, imitate, and communicate with people appears to be with them from birth.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/science/discoveries/2005-10-25-dogs-are-smart_x.htm (1041 words)

	Book Review: The Intelligence of Dogs
		The Intelligence of Dogs is a book that ostensibly examines whether dogs have intelligence at all, how that intelligence might be conceptualized, the way in which it differs among breeds and individuals, and the ramifications for the dog owner.
		Again, the dog is eight or so feet away, and in a tone that you ordinarily use to call your dog, you call out a meaningless word, another meaningless word, and then if the dog is still there, call it to come proper.
		My guess is that a dog that is staring at a squirrel might frantically remove a towel more rapidly than a dog that is attempting to compliantly humor its owner when nothing else is going on in the environment.
	www.kateconnick.com /library/corenintell.html (1885 words)

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		Dogs are always willing to please because to survive or move up in the pack, they would have to please their group leader.
		Dogs are very intelligent, and just because you have a certain breed doesn't mean they are the smartest.
		Dogs are smart in a way that we are able to communicate with each other more than with some other animals.
	www.ktca.org /dragonflytv/supersecret/message_board/livingthings/dogs.html (2694 words)

	Lone Sentry: British Training and Use of Dogs (WWII U.S. Intelligence Bulletin, January 1943)
		Next, the dogs are assigned to their trainers, and are given about two weeks in which to become accustomed to them.
		Each dog is taught to understand that whenever the collar is attached, a trip to the other master is required.
		Patrol dogs are trained to pick up body scent, to point out the direction from which it comes, and to work in complete silence at all times.
	www.lonesentry.com /articles/br_dogs/index.html (1130 words)

	Animal Intelligence - AssessmentPsychology.com
		The term Animal intelligence is currently used in three distinct but overlapping ways: as a synonym for animal cognition, to pose the question “are animals intelligent?”, or to denote a discussion of relative levels of intelligence in different animal species.
		It is less clear that the species traditionally held to be intelligent do unusually well against this standard, though among the birds, corvids and parrots typically are found to outperform other groups, and among the carnivores, dogs generally show better performance than cats.
		Despite ambitious claims, evidence of unusually high human-like intelligence among cetaceans is patchy, partly because the cost and difficulty of carrying out research with marine mammals mean that experiments frequently suffer from small sample sizes and inadequate controls and replication.
	www.assessmentpsychology.com /animalintelligence.htm (694 words)

	The Intelligence of Dogs
		Dog intelligence is a topic which comes up quite often, for example, in the O.J. Simpson case where the only eyewitness to the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman was her dog Kato (later Satchmo).
		Among the many bizzare points brought up in the media frenzy was the question of interrogating this witness, at which time it was noted that the dog was an Akita, a breed quite low on the canine intelligence hierarchy (54th out of 79).
		The resulting rankings are widely available, for example here where dog owners will be either delighted or confounded by their pet's placing.
	cf.geocities.com /ilanpi/dog.html (761 words)

	Stanley Coren, The Intelligence of Dogs
		The characteristics of working intelligence include a long attention span, the mental flexibility to try another approach when the first responses to a particular command are not rewarded, and the communication skills to realize when its handler is attempting to communicate something.
		Instinctive intelligence is defined as those genetically determined abilities and behavioral predispositions that allow the dog to do a particular job: for example, terriers to go to ground, bloodhounds to track, spaniels to flush game birds, or border collies to herd sheep.
		The most striking difference between the two dogs is a personality issue, not a matter of anything that can be labeled "intelligence." Although Coren devotes a full chapter to what he terms the "personality factor," he does not seem to realize how critical a role it plays in the obedience ring.
	www.heatherweb.com /writing/coren1.html (2259 words)

	Dogs - Are Dog Intelligence Tests Reliable?
		Dog owners are often curious to find out how intelligent there dog is. Some research studies have been undertaken to evaluate the intelligence of specific breeds and some simple tests that purport to determine whether one's own dog is smart are also available.
		The author believes there are 3 types of intelligence displayed by dogs, namely, adaptive intelligence (the ability to problem solve); instinctive intelligence (genetically-dictated behaviors); and obedience intelligence (the ability to obey commands).
		For most dog owners, what really matters is the dog's general temperament and whether it readily obeys the commands given.
	www.buzzle.com /articles/are-dog-intelligence-tests-reliable.html (676 words)

	Dog Intelligence - AssessmentPsychology.com
		It is important to remember that intelligence should not be judged only by the willingness to follow obedience commands.
		The willingness or ability to be obedience trained may reflect a desire to please or a dependence upon humans, as well as intelligence.
		While they truly may not have the same kind of intelligence as a Border Collie, they were not bred to learn and obey commands quickly, but to think for themselves while trailing game.
	www.assessmentpsychology.com /dogintelligence.htm (253 words)

	Stanley Coren's Library
		Dogs have even found their way to the battlefield -- great military leaders such as Robert the Bruce and Omar Bradley have shared their lives, exploits, and gunfire with dogs.
		From Wagner, who admitted that one of the arias in the opera Siegfried was "written" by one of his dogs, to the dogs that inspired and lived with Presidents Lincoln, Roosevelt, Johnson, and Clinton, these loving canines do double duty as loyal pets and creative muses.
		However, what endeared this book the most to dog lovers, was the extensive collection of stories of many well known people and their relationship to their dogs.
	www.stanleycoren.com /library.htm (1012 words)

	Simon & Schuster: The Intelligence of Dogs: A Guide to the Thoughts, Emotions, and Inner Lives of Our Canine Companions ...
		I began by looking at the origins of dogs, because any animal's mental ability is shaped and limited by its biological makeup and the forces of evolution that have worked on it.
		While I hoped to make it clear that no breed of dog is without merit or purpose, I also pointed out that not all dog breeds are created equal in terms of their cleverness and mental skills.
		An added bonus is that countless dog obedience competitors and just plain family dog owners have spoken with me or written letters and e-mails to tell me about their special stories and experiences with their own pet and companion dogs.
	www.simonsays.com /content/book.cfm?tab=2&pid=513840&agid=2 (877 words)

	exn.ca's Dogs!
		Whoever had the idea first, we’re still hanging around each other, 10,000 years after the first wolf cubs were tamed, bred and raised to help us hunt.
		Discover how humans shaped the dog since its ancient origins and continue to do so today.
		Find out how the domestic dog’s body has retained the power, speed and the senses of a wild animal — and how we put those qualities to work for us.
	www.exn.ca /dogs/home.cfm (173 words)

	Dogs Intelligence
		As a dog lover and a trainer, I wanted to let all of the dog owners and lovers an idea of the dogs intelligence and the skill lever that every dog, and every dog breeds have.
		The dog's intelligence are a part of the dog's soul, we give you here the way to control your dog's intelligence, by tests, tricks and letting the dog the right life living.
		You have the tools to control your dog's intelligence, by raising a puppy the right way, letting the dog explore his own way, letting the dog learn on him self, and giving the dog some tests from time to time.
	members.tripod.com /M_F_A/dogsintelligence.htm (302 words)

	Dogs - Dogs on ForumForUs
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		Dogs, like humans, are highly social animals and have the ability to form close bonds which has resulted in unique interspecies relationships.
		It also details some of the hundreds of dog breeds currently in existence, including the retriever, the hound, the spaniel, the terrier and other working dogs.
	dogs.forumforus.com (299 words)

	Cattle Dogs!
		A Cattle Dog is a dog has been bred and trained to gather, herd and drive livestock.
		Cattle Dogs are bred for the physical characteristics that help them with their work, including speed and endurance.
		Due to their intelligence and beauty, Cattle Dogs are often family pets.
	cattletoday.biz (267 words)

	The Animal Attraction - Dog IQ Test
		Naturally you’ll want your dog to be a canine genius, so watch how Professor Coren does the tests before you try them at home.
		Because they’re mostly based on food reward it may be better to give them over a number of sessions so the dog doesn’t end up full of food and tired, both of which will affect it’s motivation and performance, and it’s IQ score.
		The tests were devised by Dr Stanley Coren, professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, a prize winning dog trainer and an authority on canine intelligence.
	www.abc.net.au /animals/dog_test (241 words)

	Tarazet: How Smart Are Dogs?
		Dogs bred to retrieve readily pick up objects but are most likely to bring them to you rather than manipulate them on their own.
		Intelligence can be measured several ways: how well or how quickly your dog can understand your meaning, figure out ways around obstacles or recognize people and things.
		My experience is that dogs are certainly intelligent since they react to conditions around them and remember what the best response is. They can also figure out what to do in new situations as long as the unfamiliar isn't too far removed from what they already know.
	www.tarazet.com /mt/archives/002240.html (1615 words)

	Sleeping Dogs of Intelligence
		Intelligence is not provoked into spilling the beans when uninformed critics, relying on slanders, innuendos and rumours, try to cast dirt.
		Intelligence services in all democracies are fated to such experience but when downright lies are dished across, patience will tend to snap.
		Intelligence in a democracy, dictatorship or monarchy, works under or has direct access to the chief political executive of the country.
	www.saag.org /papers7/paper645.html (1445 words)

	How smart is your dog? - 'The Intelligence of Dogs' rates 113 breeds by intelligence Current Events - Find Articles
		For a dog, they assumed, intelligence means being able to carry out commands and to put its training to practical use.
		The 10 dumbest dogs, according to Dr. Coren, are, the basset hound, mastiff; beagle, Pekingese, bloodhound, borzoi, chow chow, bulldog, borzoi, and Afghan hound.
		Dog owners who don't find their dogs rated highly for intelligence should take heart.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_n24_v93/ai_16809706 (319 words)

	How smart is your dog? - 'The Intelligence of Dogs' rates 113 breeds by intelligence Current Events - Find Articles
		For a dog, they assumed, intelligence means being able to carry out commands and to put its training to practical use.
		The 10 dumbest dogs, according to Dr. Coren, are, the basset hound, mastiff; beagle, Pekingese, bloodhound, borzoi, chow chow, bulldog, borzoi, and Afghan hound.
		Dog owners who don't find their dogs rated highly for intelligence should take heart.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_n24_v93/ai_16809706 (319 words)

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