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Originally Posted by SirTeddykins  lol - I don't know how you meant for me to take this but I laughed so thank you  I meant no offense, if my post was taken that way. I just didn't want to focus on general intelligence in the breed if you wanted specific examples from my dog only. However, since others seem to have rightly grasped the point of your enquiry, I will follow their lead!
I think Teddy (my dog) is very smart when compared to my other dogs. This is not because he does all of the tricks I ask him to do, rather, because he can do them but chooses not to with a glint in his eye which suggests he is superior to my commands!
In addition to being intelligent, I find the stubborn streak in him very endearing. |
Of course others have grasped what this thread is about, but, what you wanted to do was start with an hypothesis and prove by research qualitative and quantitative because and I am thinking by what you wrote and how you wrote it that your a research fellow aren't you, so sorry, but, I had a lifetime of it and was not going to introduce this type of thing to an unsuspecting audience of Yorkie owners, it is just not fair and would have soon shut this thread down. Actually I was given a personal invitation to contribute by the administrators who thought I had left so I tried to come up with a subject matter that would get everyone interested and talking, meanwhile giving me an insight into this wonderful breed of dog which quite honestly [because of Toby my yorkie] I find quite fascinating.
Yorkshire terriers are 27th in the hierarchy of breeds as far as intelligence goes or so this internet and various books would have us believe, however, from what I have gleaned so far from the people who own them they should be placed much higher.