He’s a male, but in build and coloration, the dachshund in the video below looks just like Dusty, the smaller of our two miniature doxies.
Dusty, however is way too cool to fetch the ball. Even if we threw one for her, she would just tell us to go get it.
Canine-intelligence expert Stanley Coren has found that dogs have the developmental abilities of a human 2-year-old, with the average dog capable of learning the meanings of 165 words. Dusty’s vocabulary is a lot bigger than that, and we learned very early that it did no good to spell words like T-R-E-A-T; she knew what we were saying before we could spell it out.
Just because she understands what we’re saying, it doesn’t mean that she will mind. She is convinced (with some justification) that she is the alpha of our pack and we are here to do her bidding. Tinker, our other dachshund, does anything Dusty tells her to do, and usually, so do we.
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