ITT: The Smartest Dog in the World.

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This is my dog. Her name is Raven and she is 9 years old (63 doggie years).

She is a pure-bred Labrador Retriever and she understands English.

Her hobbies are playing fetch, and watching Animal Planet (She enjoys watching polar bears)

I can tell her to go get X or go to Y and she understands
(where X can = bone, ball, toy, baby (her stuffed animal))
(where Y can = the: living room, outside, inside, the car, bed, my bed)

She is very very smart about playing.
If i hide things from her (be it a bone, a toy, or a ball) she will search for it until i tell her to stop or i get it for her.

She also somehow knows moods of people. If someone is sad or lonely.

She also protects my family from strangers and various wildlife where i live.

She still acts like a puppy though haha.

That's a huge picture. wtp

Anyways, cute dog. lol

my camera did it, not me.

My dog died of brain cancer at age 3.9. A week before his birthday.

Does she actually understand english. Can I have a conversation with her about the Health Care Bill?

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This is an old pic of my dog Buddy. He is 11 in human years(77 in dog). He's a breed of Pitbull and Lab we dont know exactly how much of each though.

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He does all of the stuff your dog does and he also picks up garbage from the floor(by garbage I mean yogurt containers and such that we eat and put down to let him have the remains) and brings it over by the garbage pail. He can tell if somebody in our family is about to be home about 45 second before we do due to the fact that he recognizes the sound each and every one of our car makes. When you get home he patiently waits at the door that he knows you're going to come into so he can greet you asap.

Does she actually understand english. Can I have a conversation with her about the Health Care Bill?

That requires an understanding of American Politics, not English.

My dad's best friend's dog was 17 years old. Her only health problem was that she went deaf at around 15. She was SOO smart. My dad's friend lives out in New York, pretty much in the middle of nowhere. Out there, dogs aren't really kept in and what not, and so Midnight (the dog) was free to roam around. She was so smart that she even looked both ways before crossing the street. She was so friendly, too. She understood signs to do things because she obviously couldn't hear what we were saying. Sadly, she was hit by a car. She was crossing the street to explore the forest, but even though she looked, a car came barreling around the corner and hit her because she couldn't hear it and since she didn't see it she thought it was safe. That was the best dog ever.

Now, my current dog, only about 2.5 years old, is pretty well trained. I won't go far as to say she is a super intelligent dog, though. She's about average, or a little above average for a dog.

He does all of the stuff your dog does and he also picks up garbage from the floor(by garbage I mean yogurt containers and such that we eat and put down to let him have the remains) and brings it over by the garbage pail. He can tell if somebody in our family is about to be home about 45 second before we do due to the fact that he recognizes the sound each and every one of our car makes. When you get home he patiently waits at the door that he knows you're going to come into so he can greet you asap.

ahhh mine does the car thing too! she recognizes whos car is who! lol

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She is a pure-bred Labrador Retriever and she understands English.

Dogs don't really have the mental capacity to learn a large amount of English like humans, but yes, dogs can learn English, well, more like the sounds of English. Dogs do have a heightened sense of hearing and, like humans, as puppies can tell what is being said around them. But if I had to guess, a dog could only learn around 50-100 English words.

Her hobbies are playing fetch, and watching Animal Planet (She enjoys watching polar bears)

I can tell her to go get X or go to Y and she understands
(where X can = bone, ball, toy, baby (her stuffed animal))
(where Y can = the: living room, outside, inside, the car, bed, my bed)

I'd like you to try a linear equation on her!

She is very very smart about playing.
If i hide things from her (be it a bone, a toy, or a ball) she will search for it until i tell her to stop or i get it for her.

She also somehow knows moods of people. If someone is sad or lonely.

If you believe in biology/evolution, dogs have a "mammalian" brain of which we also have that controls some of our various emotions such as fear, anger, and the like. It is located a bit underneath our reptilian brain of which controls our involuntary reflexes. All I'm trying to say if that dogs can tell certain emotions that you are omitting as they also can feel them. That's why some people would rather have a dog than a boyfriend/girlfriend


Nice story though. I used to have a puppy dog of which I found when I was like 7 years old. I was dreaming/praying/hoping at the time to get a dog and my parents just didn't want to bother with that kind of commitment. Then along came a loose 1-year old Doberman Pincher outside of my house looking just plain scared and goofy. She was just wandering around so I had to go grab a piece of bologna to entice her to get off the damn street. I kept her inside the fence for the first while, thinking how much I wanted this dog, how unexpected this was, and just how nice of dog she was. The humane society couldn't come until the next day so I kept her all night long and I just loved her from then on. The humane society did come and take her, much to my crying and disbelief But I got her back a week or so later, and it was like the best gift ever. I had her for 8 years after that until she got sick and I had to get her put down. Still makes me sad to think about it.

my dog is a shmuk.

Never listens, sneaks out of the kitchen, runs away when she gets the chance, doesnt know that im the one in the family thats keeping her from getting kicked out. never cuddles. plays only on her own time. and her own chase me game, and ignores me when anybody is within 5' of food

That requires an understanding of American Politics, not English.

I never said it was an intellectual discussion... It'd be like discussing with it person who watches Fox News.