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To: combjelly who wrote (206999)	10/16/2004 7:57:46 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572988

"Yes, you have a point......." And loyal and smart. Heck, ours can beat me at chess. But he often lets me win so as not to hurt my feelings... Did you hear about the dog in Germany? I posted the story on this thread a while back. The dog always was good at fetching and he was on tv a lot. So they decided to use him in an experiment. They put his favorite toys behind a screen and told him to fetch a particular toy........"Go get, GI Joe" for an example. After a while, they put a new toy in among his familiar toys and told him to go fetch it. To their amazement, within seconds, he figured out which toy was the right one and brought it back to them.......even though it was a new toy he had never seen before. It was the first time that an animal, besides man, had shown that kind of reasoning......through deduction he figured out which toy was the right one. Which leads to another story.......when I was a kid, I read this science fiction story which had the premise that for acceptance into the intergalactic council bla bla bla, a new species was required to bring two other species on its home planet to sentience. To get into the council, humans chose dogs and monkeys, and were working on dolphins. It was an incredible story. I was reminded of that story when I heard about the German dog. ;~) ted