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Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children
Ponca City, We love you writes "The Telegraph reports that researchers using tests originally designed to demonstrate the development of language, pre-language and basic arithmetic in human children have found that dogs are capable of understanding up to 250 words and gestures, can count up to five and can perform simple mathematical calculations putting them on par with the average two-year-old child. While most dogs understand simple commands such as sit, fetch and stay, a border collie tested by Professor Coren showed a knowledge of 200 spoken words. 'Obviously we are not going to be able to sit down and have a conversation with a dog, but like a two-year-old, they show that they can understand words and gestures,' says Professor Stanley Coren, a leading expert on canine intelligence at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Dogs can tell that one plus one should equal two and not one or three,' says Coren, adding that dogs 'can also deliberately deceive, which is something that young children only start developing later in their life.' Coren believes centuries of selective breeding and living alongside humans has helped to hone the intelligence of dogs. 'They may not be Einsteins, but are sure closer to humans than we thought.'"
and yet, history shows almost all authoritarian self-appointed dictator-for-life examples are from the "left".
This is good news!
Obama now has another pool of taxpayers to tap!
Come on, you know he's a lying sack of shit trying to grow the Chicago political patronage machine nationwide and then worldwide. Whatever happened to that "middle class tax break" for "95% of the population"? Yeah - Obama LIED.
And you believed him.
Fools.
Ironically, capcha is "retiree". Something those of use who are going to have to pay for Obama's machine are never going to get to be.
My bitch told me to fuck off and so I had to leave the house and now live in rented accommodation