Sunday, 25 November 2012

World's Smartest Dog?


It is believed the Border Collie is the smartest breed of dog in the world.
Psychologist at the Wofford College in Spartanburg put this to the test using Chaser, a 6 year old female Border Collie.

Over the time of a few experiments the gradually taught Chaser proper nouns and naming objects. By the end of the experiment she was able to fetch an object by name that was hidden in a group of 20 other objects. She never got any less then 18 out of 20 right, in 838! These tests were conducted separately over the course of 3 years.

Chaser learnt and remember the names of 1,022 individual items, this is more then any other animal, although the Psychologist couldn't prove that the Border Collie breed is smarter then any other they did discover they are an especially smart breed and have a special propensity to language.

How does your pooch stack up next to Chaser? Do you have a new world champ on your hands?
ey of Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., wanted to test if there was a limit to the amount of words a border collie could learn, so they taught Chaser the names of hundreds of toys, one by one, slowly and patiently, for three yea

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/23/worlds-smartest-dog-knows-words/#ixzz2ChxioamQ
ey of Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., wanted to test if there was a limit to the amount of words a border collie could learn, so they taught Chaser the names of hundreds of toys, one by one, slowly and patiently, for three yea

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/23/worlds-smartest-dog-knows-words/#ixzz2ChxioamQ


Chaser.
Psychologists Alliston Reid and John Pilley of Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., wanted to test if there was a limit to the amount of words a border collie could learn, so they taught Chaser the names of hundreds of toys, one by one, slowly and patiently, for three years.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/23/worlds-smartest-dog-knows-words/#ixzz2ChxV7nrZ


Psychologists Alliston Reid and John Pilley of Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., wanted to test if there was a limit to the amount of words a border collie could learn, so they taught Chaser the names of hundreds of toys, one by one, slowly and patiently, for three years.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/23/worlds-smartest-dog-knows-words/#ixzz2ChxV7nrZ
Psychologists Alliston Reid and John Pilley of Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., wanted to test if there was a limit to the amount of words a border collie could learn, so they taught Chaser the names of hundreds of toys, one by one, slowly and patiently, for three years.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/23/worlds-smartest-dog-knows-words/#ixzz2ChxV7nrZ



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/23/worlds-smartest-dog-knows-words/#ixzz2ChxY0E45Ch

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  1. chasertheBC9 December 2012 at 15:01

    Her name is Chaser, not Chester.

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    1. Cory - The Doggy Doater10 December 2012 at 10:02

      That is correct Pilley, we did have 'Chaser' listed as the name at the start of the blog but it seems as we got further down somehow it was changed to Chester. Thank you very much for bringing this to our attention, :)

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