Dog Intelligence and the Science Behind their Affection

In case you missed Sunday's fascinating 60 Minutes segment entitled The Smartest Dog in the World about the scientific research on dog intelligence. Anderson Cooper interviewed eighty-six-year-old retired psychology professor Dr. John W. Pilley Jr. Ph.D and his border collie Chaser, a dog who could identify over a thousand toys. It turns out that most two-year-old toddlers know about 300 words, and Chaser's vocabulary is three times that. In fact in a … [Read more...]