You may call your dog dumb, but how many times have his soulful eyes and beseeching paw made you pass him a treat under the table? The truth is that even dogs who are a little short on brains can be very clever!

One of the reasons why the thousands upon thousands of years of love between people and dogs has lasted so long is because we communicate in a way that they understand. When a dog comes to you with his frisbee and drops it at your feet, you know without being told that he thinks it's time to play fetch.

These are just two ways that your dog can tell you what he wants and what he is thinking and this shows that indeed, he can learn!

Through language and body posture, they communicate with us, but remember that they process it very differently from the ways than we do.

Just to start off with, they see in low light much better than we do, their eyes respond to color differently, and they can rotate their ears very quickly, letting them figure out where sounds are coming from. Don't forget that famous nose, either!

These differences will equal difference in the way that their minds work. Their ability to understand cause and effect relationships is quite different from ours.

When it comes to classic consideration, where the subject figures out the connection between cause and effect, we can beat it pretty easily if it was just a coincidence. On the other hand, dogs create a very persistent relation between cause and effect.

Operant conditioning is where we learn about cause and effect through positive and negative reinforcement and is something that is even more different between humans and dogs.

Whenever I am going to go play fetch with my Golden Retrievers, I go out the back door. Whenever I do this, we always play fetch. On the other hand, when I let them out the side door, I never go with them, and I just let them go outside for half an hour or so. Because of this, they know to go to the back when it is time to play games.

When I train my dogs, I always use a certain tone and a unique hand gesture with every command, and this lets them learn a wide range of behaviors. They will lie down, roll over, release their jaws, come, sit, fetch, drop it and even eliminate on command.

However, remember that if too much time passes between cause and effect, they are going to lose it. For instance, how many times can you tell them that eating something off the ground is bad for them? The stomachaches that result have no connection in their heads to the food because it was too long ago!

Whether your dog is a Retriever or a Shepherd, a Basset Hound or a Dachshund, you'll find that you can get him to learn a lot of different things, as long as you know what is possible and what to expect

For instance, consider people on the show circuit who can teach their dogs to go through a complex dance routine, or search and rescue dogs that can pull children from avalanches of snow and flooded rivers. Service dogs can fetch a container of water without spilling a drop, or open a door or pull a wheelchair.

Remember, though, that they are not people, and that even when they try to act like us and communicate like us, they are still going to do things like eat little dead critters they find in the yard and turn around three times before they sleep!

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