[RottieGirl86]

I'd be careful to not mistake cunning with intellingence.

Dogs can be trained to do complex tasks and can mimic human behaviors.

I say 'bone' Athena runs to the freezer. why? she's reading my non verbal cues as well as inflection to my voice. Real smarts would be her saying bone to me and then getting one for herself. She is only displaying a conditioned response to a behavor pattern born over the past 5 years when I started buying and freezing marrow bones. It's cute & I laugh, but it doesn't mean she knows what 'bone' actually means 5 minutes later or if someone else said it & a freezer/fridge wasn't around.