Dog Genius

The dogs are very intelligent, defining intelligence as the good capacity of developing in the environment, because their environment is us. They can understand us very well because they are been molded for that. The dogs come from the wolf. It is thought that the wolves approached to men for the leftover foods of the men, becoming more docile. Since that moment, the man has domesticated them, lose them some abilities to hunt and detaching others, making many shapes of them.
One of these enhanced features is the smell. The dog can smell 40000 times better than humans, detecting many different odors even over long distances. The bloodhound is the best breed to smell.

The dogs have an impressive ability of association. Experiments have shown that dogs can detect signals from us, like our hands, our eyes and our voice, among others, doing it much better the chimps. What demonstrate the great link between dogs and men.

This good development is used to make Helper dogs, which are trained for people with disabilities. This training is done early, when they are puppies, showing them all the things of our world to which they will face in future. When they are ready, they are graduated and delivered to their new owners, becoming real lifesavers.

The dogs can associate objects with words. One dog called “Rico” has shown an amazing ability in this area. This border collie has been tested by rigorous experiments and found to understand the meanings of about 200 different words. He also can discriminate unknown objects by exclusion. This is called "fast mapping", which is developed by children since two years old.
This leaves the question whether ability is doable for all dogs or it is just an exception. Experiments with others dogs have shown that Roco wouldn`t be the one

Are really dogs geniuses? May be they are misunderstood geniuses. One doberman called Donnie has shown to make interesting patterns with her toys. May be she does that to express something, who knows,,,

The knowledge about their whole intelligence is still incomplete. What is known is they understand us better than they understand themselves

I like this picture: a beauty little shedog

This is Jade, a very beauty german shepherd shedog that I had. The picture is of July 2005, when she was six months and it was taken in my house of Talca. I like this picture a lot because she looks happy, like she was smiling.

She died in january of this year by an autoimmune disease and I miss her so much, but I watch this picture and I get happy. It makes me remember all the happy moments with her.

She was very smart and obedient, and she loved to me. We were a good pair, because we understood each other very well. I taught to her many things, as giving the hand, sitting, search hidden things, jump to catch something, “speaking” (she barked when one spoke with her), cover her face ( I liked so much this one, because it was very funny. She covered her face with her hand when one said “shame”).

Comig to study in Santiago make me be much time apart, and I couldn`t be with her all the time that I had wanted.

By many reasons, the last year I had to give her away. Fortunately, the people who received to her was very good, and they wanted so much.

I coudn`t be with her when she left us, but I am happy because I know she was happy.

She has been the best partner that i`ve ever had, and she will be always in my heart