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(25,586 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)CousinIT
(9,247 posts)niyad
(113,344 posts)sandensea
(21,639 posts)Except that unlike the dog, we can't do anything about it - until the next presidential election anyway.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)A big dog's brain is just as big as theirs, and scientists measure a species comparable intellectual capacity by brain size.
"Big dog brain big" is about all they get.
And then this kind of thing happens.
Le Gaucher
(1,547 posts)Neurons in the cerebral cortex..
Elephants have way bigger brains than humans ..but they only have half the number of cerebral cortex neurons.
Dogs have about 500 million nuerons and humans have 16 billion !!
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Fact checking is so handy now!
It'll be a while before dogs develop that app!
Thanks for taking me seriously!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)I'm no slouch mental wise and neither was my mother, but we sometimes spelled words out because the poodle understood everything we said.
I would name her toys and tell her to go get a toy by name and she would. Every time.
It took me a long time to realize she was deaf because she always knew what I was saying. Evidently pets read us like books and have every mannerism, eye twitch and gesture memorized.
KT2000
(20,583 posts)we too have had enough.
zanana1
(6,122 posts)question everything
(47,487 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)question everything
(47,487 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Enough is enough, says he.
IronLionZion
(45,455 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)Beautiful!
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)I needed a laugh!
Thanks!
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)IronLionZion
(45,455 posts)whathehell
(29,067 posts)Fla Dem
(23,691 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)After watching Trump today doing his bloviating impression of a talking goldfish, I could use the chuckle.
Watching him today with that pursed mouth, that unnatural skin tone, and his head slowly weaving back & forth, all I could think of was a koi looking for fish food. It was perhaps fitting that there was a Flake right next to him.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,734 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,610 posts)She does that when I try to get her to do something that is OK for a minute or two, after that she let's you know that she has had enough of it and takes charge. She is 7 pounds but 14 1/2 years old so she knows her tolerance and her limitations at this point.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)TomSlick
(11,100 posts)MLAA
(17,298 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)KPN
(15,646 posts)We can all use a good laugh from time to time, especially now.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Good puppO!
MFM008
(19,816 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)intelligent dog...knew to get the weight (kid) off the sled prior to carrying sled away
Initech
(100,080 posts)cate94
(2,811 posts)sammythecat
(3,568 posts)thanks for that. Clever dog there
Perfect OP headline too!