[ExI] Tool use by dog

[William Flynn Wallace]

Taught or untaught  - still amazing   bill w

On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 10:09 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat
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> Subject: [ExI] Tool use by dog
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> I like dogs, but I have never seen such obvious tool use by a dog. Was it
> trained or was it spontaneous? German Shepherd dogs are considered to be
> the
> third smartest breed.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVMYM1ziFms
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> Stuart LaForge
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> Hi Stuart,
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> I have been around dogs much.  Love em.  Watch em.  Such fun beasts they
> are.
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> My intuition is telling me this dog was trained, rather than dog reasoning
> that boy was doing something dangerous to get ball, dog need to pull boy
> away, dog get his ball from the pond so boy will not go back and do it
> again.  That sounds like too much reasoning for a dog.  But dogs can be
> trained to do stuff like this.
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> A dog is far more likely to cheerfully jump into the fountain and fetch the
> ball, but not fish it out with a pole.
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> spike
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