I also got the poodles are the smartest wrong too. Thought poodles were easier to train & border collies were more obedient.
Was very impressed that the average dog knows that many words!
This totally cracked me up: "People ask me why I have a beagle," says Coren. "Beagles are seven from the bottom in terms of obedience training … (but) I have nine grandchildren, so I needed a dog who's friendly and sociable and relatively unbreakable …
it's actually an advantage for me that this dog doesn't remember that that kid over there is the one who pulled his ear an hour ago."