unintelligent dogs

Sally seems to have "problem solving" smarts.  She can open our doors, figured out how to open her crate at one point, and has stealth counter surfing down to an art.  She seems to like problem solving, but when I give her her meal in the buster cube--even on the easiest setting--she generally gets frustrated and gives up half way through her meal.

Then there is Jack.  I always thought Jack "got" things pretty quickly, but I never thought that he was the problem solving type.  Apparently that was because I never gave him a problem involving food.  He LOVES his Buster Cube.  he is normally really excited about meals but when he sees us pull out the Buster Cube he gets so excited he looks like he is having some sort of attack.  His brain is also very retreiving geared.  He is just good at the actual retreiving, but but also finding his throwy in the brush.

There are some exceptions to the "dumber the dog, easier to handle" rule. My Shar Pei was definitely an exception! He was a good dog, but definitely wasn't the brightest bulb in the box, had a stubborn streak and wasn't easy to handle.

I can name a breed that is unintelligent (in my opinion). It's a chow-chow. Maybe you'll ask me why I think so. I'll answer: I have an eleven-year male chow-chow and he's the most unintelligent,  belligerent, repugnant, stubborn and learning-disabled dog I've ever seen

Tyson is our dumb dog. He knows "get in the crate" and despite what his previous owners and we have worked with him on, we still usually get a very blank expression when we tell him to even sit and it takes him a few mins to catch on to what you wanted him to do. DH and I joke constantly about how stupid he is. He runs into walls and when you tell him to get in the crate he stops what ever he is doing and gets in there and then looks completely puzzled as to how he got there. He follows that command blindly like he is a robot or something. He is DH's dog and he says he loves him completely even if he is as dumb as a box of rocks. 

We have a dim dog.  Considering she is part collie I cannot BELIEVE how dim she is.  I think she got the collie looks, but none of the brains... she is very biddable and "easy" and as a puppy she soaked up learning like a sponge but she just looks so vacant half the time....

I've found Chows to be intelligent but not always very interested in pleasing humans.

I have a chow/lab stray/rescue that is the smartest dog I've ever know so he puts the other non-Einstiens to shame.  But I have one who might be considered dumb.  She's a snow dog mix of some kind, and blonde, btw.  I was feeding her and another dog... he got 3 scoops, she got 1.  After I dumped her scoop she waited because she knew he was getting more so I'd put another little scoop in for her and she was happy with that.  I figure she can only count to 2. [&:]

I can name a breed that is unintelligent (in my opinion). It's a chow-chow. Maybe you'll ask me why I think so. I'll answer: I have an eleven-year male chow-chow and he's the most unintelligent, belligerent, repugnant, stubborn and learning-disabled dog I've ever seen

I decided to delete my original post.
Repugnant, learning disabled???  [sm=huh.gif] 

This may be an instance of someone assuming that a stubborn dog is a stupid dog.

Repugnant, learning disabled???

 
That bothered me too.
 
Tasha is easily the most intelligent of our dogs as far as problem solving. Alas, she solves problems to her satisfaction and not necessarily mine, so she has been the most difficult to train. Bonded yes....easily trained. In this case no.

ORIGINAL: Lantana

I can name a breed that is unintelligent (in my opinion). It's a chow-chow. Maybe you'll ask me why I think so. I'll answer: I have an eleven-year male chow-chow and he's the most unintelligent,  belligerent, repugnant, stubborn and learning-disabled dog I've ever seen

 
Maybe he just doesn't like the negative vibes you're giving him?  Dogs can sense whether we like them or not.  If you feel this way about him, maybe he knows it and just doesn't want to please you.

Both my dogs are really smart, they listen to me without fail, but when DH is home, then they act stupid, because that they know that he will treat them like they are a lump of wood!  I do love him, but he doesn't treat my dogs well, also he doesn't mis treat, so that is why we are still together, someday, I can train him!  (DH ) I mean!

Did you notice Lantana is a 19yr old girl from Russia?  From the link she posted in her introduction she is into GSD's and shows them. 
The chow probably feels the same about her! [&:]

I don't think it's fair to generalize about an entire BREED.....perhaps her chow is stupid, or perhaps, as someone said, he doesn't give a rodents rear end about pleasing HER.
 
My shepherds are are very intelligent.  Does that mean pleasing me?  Not so much.
 
Of the shepherds however, only TYLER has learned how to untie the piece of rope that holds the gate shut on the front deck.  I really need to get my act together and build a gate for the deck that latches.  He and Sheba LOVE to play on the front deck....it's enormous, running the entire length of the house and wide enough that DS parks his truck under it on one end.
 
Recently Tyler and Sheba were on the deck and decided to go around back to visit the other boys....both came immediately when I called, but with the detour for road construction going down our road it scared the snot out of me that they were loose and unattended.  In watching later we discovered that Tyler is the culprit.  For now it's bungeed.
 
Smart dogs are not necessarily easy to live with, that's for darned sure!

 
[]My opinion is that unintelligent breeds do not exist ,however,we know breeds which are more difficult to train.For example: "polar" breeds (Samoyed,Alaskan Malamute,...) They are really diffcult to train,because they are stubborn and very hard to motivate...but if you begin with training when you have 2 months pup-there should not be any problems.
I have westie-west highland white terrier.She is a girl and i can say that very stubborn,on the other hand i am very happy,because i teached here a lot of tricks and agility.She is now 6 years old and she is still like a little dog-she likes to play with toys,but sometimes she still does not want to listen me.
I am crazy on dogs....i can say that when i was a little girl my big big wish was to have a dog.So when i got a chance to choose my own dog i was selecting between these breedsoodle,westie,cocker spaniel,maltese dog,...i was looking only them apperiance and if they are aggressive or not.I can say that i have tons of little plastic dogs at home,a lot of books of dogs-but i did not know that terriers are have stubborn character.I did not know how important is dog`s attention to his owner,i only know everything about helath&care and basic command(sit,stay,lie down,give a paw,wait).So i thought that this is only what my dog have to know,so when we went to agility school i realize how weakness we are.Moon was very unattention on me and she looked only dogs,people and other noises.I was sad but i said to my myself that i can teach her agility.So i have started to teach her multiple tricks and agility hindrances and i am still pround of her that i tecahed her many things.I stared to train her when she was 2 years old(before i did only basic commands) an i still teach her new tricks.I can say that she is very important for me,because she is my first dog and i am very thankful that she has teached me to be patient and she is still my tecaher![][][]All these knowledge i will transfer to my second dog and i will start to teach her when she will be 2 months old[]

So you can see that nothing is impossible-if you are just a little bit "stubborn" you can teach any dogtubborn,lazy,hyperactive,...[]


 

 


Have fun with your dogs![]