[ExI] dogs again

[William Flynn Wallace]

And your point is?  If it is that some dogs can easily be trained to do
certain things which other dogs find very difficult to learn, then fine -
correct.  Same with any animal, even us.  ???


On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 7:12 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> Those of you who have dogs or will get dogs will find this book
> fascinating.  I even used it in my Learning class:
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> Don't Shoot the Dog, by Karen Pryor (former dolphin trainer)… BillW
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> We have a new question, similar in some ways to how difficult it is to
> measure intelligence in humans.  It depends to a large extent on how you
> measure it.  A friend had a pure-bred Irish Setter, a beautiful dog, and
> intelligent in his own way, but perfectly useless as a watchdog; worse than
> useless.  He would welcome perfect strangers; wouldn’t care a bit if
> someone started to haul things away.  It never occurred to that dog that
> humans could possibly be bad guys.  He assumed all humans were good, and
> whatever they were doing was right.  He was a gentle beast; OK with cats,
> or probably even rats; we didn’t know on that one.
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> I had a Doberman who chose all the opposite assumptions; everyone was
> guilty until proven innocent, and maybe guilty even then.  He seldom passed
> up an opportunity to demonstrate his disdain for strangers.  But the
> Doberman was not a hunter; there was nothing subtle about him.  He didn’t
> sneak around ever.  The setter wasn’t stupid; he just liked everybody.  The
> dobe wasn’t stupid, he was just very aggressive.  Both were excellent dogs.
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> spike
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