Canine Cognition Lab

There’s an interesting study about dog behavior being conducted at Harvard. A few of the observations:

* Is your dog patient? If given a choice between 1 treat immediately, or 5 treats in a few minutes, will your dog wait patiently for the 5 treats?
* Can your dog cooperate with a human or another dog to gain access to a highly valued reward, and if this capacity is in place, does your dog recognize that some efforts to cooperate merit greater rewards than others?
* Does your dog distinguish between accidental and intentional actions?

Here’s the link and a short video worth watching.  Harvard Canine Cognition Lab

Some of you may not want to know how smart your dog really is!   I’m waiting for them to clean up after themselves and perhaps do a little dusting.