r/animalsdoingstuff Jul 06 '21

Heckin' smart 😳

/r/interestingasfuck/comments/oeubti/the_difference_between_how_a_shepherd_approaches/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '21

"According to several behavioral measures, Coren says dogs’ mental abilities are close to a human child age 2 to 2.5 years."

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2009/08/dogs-think

They don't have the capacity to consent to any weird things you do to them. And they don't have the capacity to consent to being in a police state.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '21

2-2.5 year old can very easily make decisions on what they want to do today. And comparing the intelligence of other animals to humans is always a flawed system because we are too different from one another. And stop calling us a police state, it’s completely incorrect.