Dogs Are Cool

Am I right?

 

Yes you are!!!!

I love them


Woof Woof!!

 

:iagree:

 

You Are Soooo Wrong, Cats Rule, OK...????

Meow Meow Purr Purr......



Cheers Glen.

 

Cats are OK but dogs are more fun.

 

Dogs ARE pretty cool!

 

ARF ARF ARF ARF ARF and oh ya, ARF ARF ARF.

 

Dogs are stinky and dirty

 

So Are Gorillas, But We Still Love Them......



Cheers Glen.

 

Dogs just make you feel more happy and are there for you when you're feeling sad or happy. I just love dogs.

 

Exactly. Dogs have that connection to human emotion. My dog can sense when I'm upset just by my body language. Cats are on their own, they don't care. They're selfish and quick to kick you down, I guess, like some people.. But you don't need those people in your life just like you don't need a cat in your life either, you need a dog.

 

My dog barks to go outside every five minutes, and the moment I close the door he barks to come inside.

 

He has you well trained then....

 

Watched a show about dogs a while back. In comparing dogs to wolves it said that dogs have evolved traits that are designed to elicit positive responses in humans and in return the dogs basic needs are met.
They said this started eons ago when the first daring wolves ventured into human camps for food.
That is supposedly one reason domesticated dogs, even if born in the wild with no contact with humans, usually don't do very well. They have lost certain "wild" instincts in favor of ones specific to the human-canine relationship.
It is also why often a "wild" dog can be approached by a human and accept them to a degree, it has become instinct for them to trust humans.

pretty cool stuff to think that dogs have evolved as companions for humans.


They also showed a dog that did something previously thought possible only by humans, it made a correct inference.
This dog had a large vocabulary and had over 2,000 named toys and could retrieve any toy simply by telling him to get it.
So the owner laid out 5 toys, 4 of them were old and the dog knew them by name, and 1 new toy he had never seen with a new name he never heard.
The owner asked him to retrieve a couple of the old toys and would then put them back.
Then he asked the dog to get the new one "Get Priscilla" (I think that was the name of the toy) the dog walked over, looked at each toy, paused for a couple seconds, then grabbed the new toy and brought it over.
He correctly figured out that since he knew the names of the other toys, this new name must belong to this new toy.
Great apes/monkeys/etc fail miserably at this test, as have every other mammal it's been tried with.

cool stuff man, I keep sayin' my Buddy is easily as smart as a 4-5 year old human, and smarter than a lot of human adults.

 

I think I saw the same show (or similar one) on Nova, Neil Degrass Tyson was on the show, with the guy and the dog.

 

Including humans...

 

My dog sits at the backdoor and has to wait for the command to come in. I can have it wide open and he knows he can't come in unless I tell him to come. I've made sure he doesn't have me trained, and he hates it, because he wants to be alpha and I can see it in his facial expressions that he doesn't like being ranked number 2. My miss is a big softy so she's #3 in the pecking order and he knows this, and treats her differently and according to how she is.

On our walks, if he's annoying me and I need to correct him he'll heel with me until I tell him "okay" and then he leads again and thinks he's so good out front of us. it's the one time he's #1 and he gets a big head about it too.

 

I found the episode that I was thinking about. It's Science Now with Neil Degrass Tyson. I falsely remembered a guy with Tyson on the couch. Starting at 11 minutes is where tyson gets the dog to retrieve the stuffed animals.
http://youtu.be/mTTuiE1_Oe8

 

Anyone seen the movie White Fang? I love that movie.