Dog Owners: 1 Cat Owners: 0

How many people will I upset with this post title??? Don't know... prove me wrong.

I like cats, but after watching NOVA's "Dogs Decoded", I have to remember why I love my doggies. I mean, I know I'm only a LITTLE biased, but when I was done watching the program, I got the warm fuzzies inside and just wanted to hug my own little one!

The show is freakishly amazing and talks about all the new research that is being done with dogs. People are starting to ask: "How smart ARE dogs?" The answers they are finding are rather spectacular.

For example, there are some dogs in the world that function on a level that is above the intelligence of a two-year-old human. I know that doesn't SEEM like much, but there was a border collie named Betty who could identify over 100 separate objects AND when you showed her a drawing of a particular object and told her to fetch it, she brought back that exact object. That's fairly clever for an animal, I must say.

Not to mention, the chimpanzee that was outsmarted by a dog. :)

It's mostly about the way a dog PAYS ATTENTION to what people are doing/saying. They read our facial expressions and body expressions better than any creature. It's kind of amazing the way everything is... particularly with the concepts of facial expressions and how the right side of our face shows our true emotions. When tested on dogs, scientists realize that when dogs look at people, their eyes always turn to the right side of our face. Now, how did they figure that out!!!???

Overall, the show was freaking amazing and reminds me of the connection that we have with the canine world... and how they have changed from wild wolves!

Check it out!!!!!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/dogs-decoded.html

BTW it's on the Instant Watch on Netflix for you Netflix people!!